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New podcast episode alert! 🚨 This week, @alindguzik.bsky.social chats with Babs Daitch, the octogenarian "lesbian Forrest Gump", about why she never stays anywhere for too long—and the life lessons she's learned along the way.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
New podcast episode alert! 🚨 This week, @alindguzik.bsky.social chats with Babs Daitch, the octogenarian "lesbian Forrest Gump", about why she never stays anywhere for too long—and the life lessons she's learned along the way.
Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
Listen now: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
New podcast episode alert! 🚨 Contributor Vanessa Hsia reads her essay, "If Clothes Make the Man", about how her grandmother dressed her grandfather throughout their marriage and continued even after death.
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Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
November 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
New podcast episode alert! 🚨 Contributor Vanessa Hsia reads her essay, "If Clothes Make the Man", about how her grandmother dressed her grandfather throughout their marriage and continued even after death.
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
New podcast episode alert! 🚨 Journalist @aliyabashir.bsky.social discusses her anti-nihilistic approach to climate reporting, and the importance of finding hopeful narratives when things are feeling bleak.
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Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
October 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
New podcast episode alert! 🚨 Journalist @aliyabashir.bsky.social discusses her anti-nihilistic approach to climate reporting, and the importance of finding hopeful narratives when things are feeling bleak.
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The wait's over. The Conversationalist podcast is finally here! In episode 1 of season 2, host (and founder) @alindguzik.bsky.social dives in with special guests about the growing threat of global kleptocracy—and their ongoing work to combat it.
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Listen now ➡️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
October 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The wait's over. The Conversationalist podcast is finally here! In episode 1 of season 2, host (and founder) @alindguzik.bsky.social dives in with special guests about the growing threat of global kleptocracy—and their ongoing work to combat it.
Listen now ➡️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Listen now ➡️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
On this International Day of Non-Violence, we reflect on peace, protest, and interdependence in our newsletter.
Read more here ➡️ mailchi.mp/conversation...
Read more here ➡️ mailchi.mp/conversation...
October 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
On this International Day of Non-Violence, we reflect on peace, protest, and interdependence in our newsletter.
Read more here ➡️ mailchi.mp/conversation...
Read more here ➡️ mailchi.mp/conversation...
“Like most train enthusiasts, I’m all for high-speed rail. But there are benefits to taking the slow route.” Read more on the defense of slow rail by @alexcpark.com: conversationalist.org/2022/12/23/s...
September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
“Like most train enthusiasts, I’m all for high-speed rail. But there are benefits to taking the slow route.” Read more on the defense of slow rail by @alexcpark.com: conversationalist.org/2022/12/23/s...
“At a certain point, however, I gradually began to realize something much more fundamental had been lost in all the ‘convenience’ I’d been paying for.” How one writer became more subscription-conscious (and why you should, too). Read here: conversationalist.org/2025/06/25/s...
September 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
“At a certain point, however, I gradually began to realize something much more fundamental had been lost in all the ‘convenience’ I’d been paying for.” How one writer became more subscription-conscious (and why you should, too). Read here: conversationalist.org/2025/06/25/s...
Azadi is the Urdu word for freedom. Have you chanted it at a protest lately? Are there other chants or protest calls that particularly inspire you? More in the latest Conversationalist newsletter by @mrsslrss.bsky.social. Read it here ➡️ mailchi.mp/conversation...
September 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Azadi is the Urdu word for freedom. Have you chanted it at a protest lately? Are there other chants or protest calls that particularly inspire you? More in the latest Conversationalist newsletter by @mrsslrss.bsky.social. Read it here ➡️ mailchi.mp/conversation...
This summer, the Conversationalist team was joined by two interns, both journalists who brought great new perspectives and sharp insights to our work. This week's newsletter we're turning the mic over to them. Read it here 🎤 mailchi.mp/conversation...
September 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This summer, the Conversationalist team was joined by two interns, both journalists who brought great new perspectives and sharp insights to our work. This week's newsletter we're turning the mic over to them. Read it here 🎤 mailchi.mp/conversation...
Classic tomes, beach reads, and everything else we’re reading. The latest Conversationalist newsletter by @mrsslrss.bsky.social. Read it here ➡️ mailchi.mp/conversation...
July 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Classic tomes, beach reads, and everything else we’re reading. The latest Conversationalist newsletter by @mrsslrss.bsky.social. Read it here ➡️ mailchi.mp/conversation...
In this week's newsletter, we're getting on our soapbox. Read it here 🫧: mailchi.mp/conversation...
July 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
In this week's newsletter, we're getting on our soapbox. Read it here 🫧: mailchi.mp/conversation...
This is Soapbox 🫧, our new series where people make the case for surprising things they feel strongly about. Next up is a writer's plea to unsubscribe, unsubscribe, unsubscribe from everything and what we lose when we don't mindfully acquire things. Read more: conversationalist.org/2025/06/25/s...
June 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This is Soapbox 🫧, our new series where people make the case for surprising things they feel strongly about. Next up is a writer's plea to unsubscribe, unsubscribe, unsubscribe from everything and what we lose when we don't mindfully acquire things. Read more: conversationalist.org/2025/06/25/s...
"None of the liberties we enjoy can be taken for granted; the spoils of hard-fought justice don’t get distributed evenly, at first or sometimes at all.
There’s perhaps no greater example of that truth than Juneteenth." Read more in our latest newsletter: mailchi.mp/conversation...
There’s perhaps no greater example of that truth than Juneteenth." Read more in our latest newsletter: mailchi.mp/conversation...
June 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"None of the liberties we enjoy can be taken for granted; the spoils of hard-fought justice don’t get distributed evenly, at first or sometimes at all.
There’s perhaps no greater example of that truth than Juneteenth." Read more in our latest newsletter: mailchi.mp/conversation...
There’s perhaps no greater example of that truth than Juneteenth." Read more in our latest newsletter: mailchi.mp/conversation...
These days, the news seems to move especially fast. This week’s newsletter is all about slowing it down. Read it here ➡️ mailchi.mp/conversation...
June 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
These days, the news seems to move especially fast. This week’s newsletter is all about slowing it down. Read it here ➡️ mailchi.mp/conversation...
Solidarity forever. This International Workers' Day, our newsletter commemorates the struggles and gains made by workers, the working class, and the labor movement throughout history. Read more now: mailchi.mp/conversation...
May 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Solidarity forever. This International Workers' Day, our newsletter commemorates the struggles and gains made by workers, the working class, and the labor movement throughout history. Read more now: mailchi.mp/conversation...
Have you signed up for our newsletter? Read the latest one on women artisans in Kashmir here: mailchi.mp/conversation...
April 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Have you signed up for our newsletter? Read the latest one on women artisans in Kashmir here: mailchi.mp/conversation...
"Every month is Women’s History Month to us." Do you get our newsletters? See the latest one and sign up here ➡️ mailchi.mp/conversation...
March 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
"Every month is Women’s History Month to us." Do you get our newsletters? See the latest one and sign up here ➡️ mailchi.mp/conversation...
In this week's newsletter, we discuss fighting fire with goats. Are you signed up? Subscribe to the newsletter here ➡️ us19.campaign-archive.com?u=3afdeb5d69...
January 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
In this week's newsletter, we discuss fighting fire with goats. Are you signed up? Subscribe to the newsletter here ➡️ us19.campaign-archive.com?u=3afdeb5d69...
With three days left before the inauguration, Biden declared the equal right amendment the law of the land. ABOUT TIME 🗣️
January 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
With three days left before the inauguration, Biden declared the equal right amendment the law of the land. ABOUT TIME 🗣️
“Americans are in for some shit, and we're dragging the world into it with us, as always… ’Hope is a discipline.’ The fight is far from over. We just take it one day at a time.”
Founder @alindguzik.bsky.social shares her thoughts on this week’s devastating U.S. election results.
Founder @alindguzik.bsky.social shares her thoughts on this week’s devastating U.S. election results.
November 8, 2024 at 5:06 PM
“Americans are in for some shit, and we're dragging the world into it with us, as always… ’Hope is a discipline.’ The fight is far from over. We just take it one day at a time.”
Founder @alindguzik.bsky.social shares her thoughts on this week’s devastating U.S. election results.
Founder @alindguzik.bsky.social shares her thoughts on this week’s devastating U.S. election results.
“What is the point of living in a city stuffed with billionaires but starved of human capital? And who can even afford to, anyway?” More in our latest newsletter. Read here 👀: mailchi.mp/conversation...
October 14, 2024 at 3:11 PM
“What is the point of living in a city stuffed with billionaires but starved of human capital? And who can even afford to, anyway?” More in our latest newsletter. Read here 👀: mailchi.mp/conversation...