Substacks recommended by Milli Hill

Recommended by Milli Hill

Exploring a plate - and a life - less processed, with Milli Hill, author of Ultra Processed Women.

British ex-pat in Saigon since 2011. I work in international development and am running 50 marathons in 2025 to celebrate turning 50. Writing here about all that and more.

Friday Foodie Inspiration

By Emma

Real food. Real photos. Real life. Inspiring you to cook simple, beautiful food at home.

She Rites

A Wiltshire woman writing - about life, midwifery and fantasy - sometimes all at once. #Womenschoicesmidwifevoices #TalesofB-Earth #Livingonanisland-afairytale #Someonesmum

Cerys' Substack: Food Action Music Books

By Cerys Matthews

My personal Substack

Wendy’s World

By Wendy Varley

Arts, books, history, life!

SEEN in Publishing

A network of publishing professionals, authors, and creatives, who recognise the material reality of sex, and support freedom of expression.

Rosie Kay's Substack

Writing by dancer, choreographer and thinker Rosie Kay.

The Schism Ring by Jenny Lindsay

The Schism Ring is a place for my long-form essays, reviews & cultural commentary, mainly on the themes of democracy, liberalism, feminism and the arts. A specific forum for a women's storytelling project is forthcoming! (NB: Occasional poetry may occur.)

Jenny is brave and principled and a brilliant writer.

- Milli Hill

My personal Substack

Knowledge Arms Women. Frank, funny, factual physiotherapist. Fellow of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists. Award-winning comedian and recovered incontinent.

Perfectly Good Words

By Catherine

Just some words, not perfect but good enough...

Getting Better

By Miriam Cruz

Personal narrative as an invitation to engage with life.

Tanya’s Substack

By Tanya Cawthorne

My personal Substack

Sue Jennings Presents

The Sub Stack of Dr Sue Jennings

Women Are Mad Substack

By Women Are Mad with Jen&Salima

If you’re loving The Women Are Mad Podcast, come revel further in the co-hosts’ view on life… An intriguing analysis of everything from half-drunk coffee to slack gussets, coming at you from lifelong friends, Salima Saxton and Jennifer Cox.

Gender: A Wider Lens

By Wider Lens Podcast

An Informed Look at the Shifting Gender Landscape and How It’s Impacting Kids, Families and Society

Jenny’s Substack

By Jenny Lindsay

My personal Substack

Economical with Fiction

By E.J. Barnes

Exploring fiction of the 1920s and 30s, the crossover of economics and fiction, stories of the Great Depression, women writers from historical novelist E.J. Barnes, author of Mr Keynes' Revolution

The Lesbian Project Podcast

All the sapphic traffic - for anyone who wants more lesbian in their life.

Clover Stroud: On The Way Life Feels

By Clover Stroud on The Way Life Feels

I write about the moments that make up our extraordinary lives, especially related to creativity, relationships, sobriety, motherhood, grief and joy. I like hearing other's experiences too, so we can connect through a sense of our shared humanity

Finding Threads

By Rose Rickford

Second Brain

By Dr Emily Leeming PhD

Your gut is your second brain 🧠 Eat your way to better mood, energy, and brainpower with simple, science-backed tips on the gut microbiome and nutrition.

Monday Night Reads with Polly Clark

By Polly Clark From Monday Night Reads

Essays, poems, and other writing, direct to your inbox at 7pm each Monday.

Small Revolutions, Every Day

By Rachel Hewitt

Feminist life advice for very hard times. Analysis and practical posts about how men damage women via abuse, and how we can survive, and even thrive, in the aftermath of trauma and grief. From the perspective of a survivor.

A Day Well Spent with Leyla Kazim

A newsletter about purposeful living. By BBC presenter, journalist and writer, Leyla Kazim.

How to Feel Alive with Catherine Price

By Catherine Price & How to Feel Alive

Scroll less and live more with science journalist, author, Screen/Life Balance founder and TED speaker Catherine Price. Subscribe to receive essays, ideas, and evidence-backed advice for how to fill your life with more adventure, fun, and delight.

The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins

The Poetry of Reality Page is hosted by world renowned evolutionary biologist and best-selling author, Professor Richard Dawkins, celebrated by intellectuals and scientists everywhere for his honest critique of religion and his push for critical thinking.

In the Writing Burrow

By Margaret Atwood

Whatever comes into my addled, shrinking brain.

What Now? with Lindsay Johnstone

Top 40 in Parenting: Asking and attempting to answer various flavours of this question as I rattle roughshod over the peaks and troughs of post-analysis, perimenopausal midlife from home in Glasgow, Scotland

A B’Old Woman

By Katrina Biggs

Not being quiet about gender ideology, and any other matters which threaten women's and children's hard-won rights and protections in New Zealand. I didn't get older for nothing.

The Book Room

By Anna Wharton

Books curated by writers for readers

Invisible Women

By Caroline Criado Perez

Keeping up with the gender data gap (and whatever else takes my fancy).

Bodies get in the way...

By Lucy Leader

Gender critical birth, breastfeeding and more

Opinionated Styles

By Michelle Styles

Thoughts and musings about current events by a Woke heretic

Lickedspoon with Debora Robertson

By Debora Robertson 🦀

Welcome to my newsletter. This is where I share stories from my seaside village in the South West of France, my trips to the market, weekly recipes, and updates on our house renovation. Most of it’s free, and will always be free.

The Art of Enchantment, with Dr Sharon Blackie

New work from the award-winning author and psychologist. A gathering place for lovers of myth, fairy tales and depth psychology, exploring the mysteries of the psyche and reimagining women's stories.

Julie Bindel's writing and podcasts

Misogyny: what is it and why won't it die?

A feminist powerhouse who has tirelessly stood up for women for decades.

- Milli Hill

Open Justice with Tribunal Tweets

Latest news and developments from the volunteer citizen collective that brings you live tweeting from tribunals and other court proceedings in the United Kingdom.

The Pollen Basket

By Sylvia V. Linsteadt

a gathering of reflections on land, old stories & "what the bee knows" - (P.L. Travers)

The TERF Report

By Kara Dansky

Your go-to resource for all things related to the radical feminist movement to protect the sex-based rights of women and girls and to stop the abolition of sex in the United States (and occasionally in other parts of the world).

The Substack Post

By Substack

A guide to the creators and stories shaping culture

The Lucyverse

By Lucy Sweet

I review everything that comes out of the sewage pipe of capitalism!

Things Worth Knowing with Farrah Storr

By Farrah @Substack

A smart new corner of the internet to talk fashion, feelings and creativity with the former editor-in-chief of ELLE & Cosmopolitan. Plus join my invite-only community. We're nice...I promise.

Stella O'Malley

Everything you need to know about gender (but were afraid to ask)

White Ink with Anna Wharton

An exclusive creative writing community blending feminist thinking with writing craft (memoir, non-fiction and fiction) and personal essays. Hosted by a Sunday Times Bestselling and Orwell Prize longlisted author.

I look forward to every new post from White Ink. It's the perfect mix of feminism, writing advice and the kind of warm, direct writing that I love to read.

- Milli Hill

The Author Stack

By Russell Nohelty

Helping create a sustainable path forward for authors to build businesses that allow them to thrive and lives that light them up inside.

Sports and sex

The whole shebang. Writings, personal and political .

Suzanne's writing effortlessly gets right to the heart of the matter. She always has me punching the air with approval.

- Milli Hill

Everyday Words with Sarah Salway

Poet and novelist, Sarah Salway offers writing prompts, recommendations and reading suggestions every month with paying subscribers receiving weekly Everyday Words writing workshops designed to fit into a coffee (or wine) break.

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