Watching, Reading & Liking This Week
Spending too much time watching mindless joke-pet-parenting videos? Well, you won't regret diverting a bit of attention to these inspired social media and substack accounts...
We are all guilty of indulging in a bit of mindless scrolling. After a long day of work, family, laundry, cleaning and so on, it can feel so good to absorb *light* information. Amiright?
That said, it can feel even better to slide a bit of inspiration and seriousness into the mix now and again. So each week I’ll be sharing the accounts of women who inspire thousands with their work, personal stories, and advocacy.
To Check Out This Week…
Hannah Bett’s The Shit Substack
If you are British, Hannah needs no introduction — but surely, there are many Americans who know her writing too. The prolific columnist has run the gamut with her work, ranging from highly personal essays to acerbic takes on popular culture. However, it’s Hannah’s honesty about her own mental health challenges that has gotten the most attention — even earning her the President’s Medal by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Hannah recently launched a new Substack that is worth subscribing to, and has written on two topics that have particularly resonated with women and are worth checking out: how antidepressants have impacted her life, and why she stopped drinking.
limpbroozkit by Brooke Eby
It’s difficult to know where to start in explaining Brooke’s deeply emotional, incredibly funny, and starkly honest Instagram account. Diagnosed with ALS at just 33, Brooke has used her natural sense of humor, and penchant for brutal honesty to communicate with her thousands of followers across social media. What’s clear when following Brooke and witnessing her friends and family rally, is that love *is* all you really need.
Alice Wong and the Disability Visibility Project
Chinese-American activist and writer Alice Wong was born with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, a condition causing progressive weakness and atrophy of her muscles. Wong, founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, has a story that demands more than a simple mention here, there is enough content to get you started. Start by subscribing to Wong's substack, and then consider ordering her book “Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century.”
Allie Signorelli Takes on Parkinson’s Disease
Last, but not least, is my sister. Having been diagnosed with Young Onset Parkinson’s Disease (YOPD) two years ago, Allie has wasted no time in figuring out how to make a difference. Her honest and hopeful tone and commitment to finding a cure, has resonated with thousands of men and women also navigating what it means to have the disease. You can follow Allie on Instagram or subscribe to the Substack account she launched recently.
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