Elissa Strauss

1 week ago | elenabridgers.substack.com | Elena Bridgers |Elissa Strauss

Hello everyone!It’s been a crazy few weeks for my family and I with an international move coming up, but I am so pleased to finally be releasing this wonderful interview with Elissa Strauss, author of When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others and the writer behind the popular Substack newsletter MADE WITH CARE (you can sign up for that here).

1 month ago | courtney.substack.com | Courtney Martin |Elissa Strauss

Hey y’all, don’t miss new episodes out this week from The Wise Unknown and The Greenroom. Do you like these little audio essay experiments? Let me know. And as always, when you subscribe to this substack, or even more, become a paid subscriber, you signal to me that this work matters and is useful and beautiful to you. That’s my whole thing. Thank you so much for being here and creating such a gorgeous example of humanity really showing up in the comments section.

2 months ago | keralataylor.substack.com | Kerala Taylor |Rachel Cohen |Angela Garbes |Elissa Strauss

NOTE: I received this comment on the story you’re about to read: “I think your article just summarized the concept of reproductive justice, which is a feminist framework created by Black feminists in the 1990s, if I’m not mistaken.” After falling down a Google rabbit hole, I can attest that the commenter is not mistaken! It reminds me that any time I think I have a “new” take on feminism, there is probably at least one Black woman who said it first. And said it better. And said it decades ago.

2 months ago | courtney.substack.com | Courtney Martin |Laurel Braitman |Elissa Strauss

This was a really special conversation. It felt sacred to hear stories from two people who have lost their homes in fires, years apart, and see the ways in which grief and loss and renewal and family are all intertwined so infinitely. And is just always a gift to hear from.

2 months ago | cnn.com | Elissa Strauss

Editor’s note: CNN Films brings the premiere of “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” to CNN at 8 p.m. ET/PT Sunday. Dana Reeve was devoted to caring for her husband, Christopher Reeve, as noted in the new documentary “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story.”In her diary, Dana expressed a part of her experience that caregivers often hesitate to say out loud, as read by her son, Will, in the documentary.