Rachel Baker

Charlottesville

Co-Creator at The Spread Media

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Writer & editor; co-creator of the Spread newsletter (women overthinking women, weekly)

Articles

Be There When We Feed the Tree

1 week ago | thespread.media | Rachel Baker |Maggie Bullock

Welcome to Spreadlandia, where two veteran editors readit ALL to winnow out only the best: juicy yarns, big ideas, deeply personal essays, and hot goss—aka, the full Spread. Plus: original interviews, podcasts, and more. Come hungry!Spreadspondents,Over at the Atlantic, Sophie Gilbert has anointed Netflix’s Sirens “the show of the summer” and—pauses to consider—yep, we will cosign that.
Armageddon Ain’t Just a Ben Affleck Masterpiece

2 weeks ago | thespread.media | Rachel Baker |Maggie Bullock

Welcome to Spreadlandia, where two veteran editors readit ALL to winnow out only the best: juicy yarns, big ideas, deeply personal essays, and hot goss—aka, the full Spread. Plus: original interviews, podcasts, and more. Come hungry!Spreadlebrities,Well, well, well. Imagine our surprise when our former colleague Mattie Kahn took to the pages of Town & Country to bemoan the problem of, well…us. “It turns out Ronald Reagan was wrong about the scariest words in the English language,” Mattie writes.
Shake Your Moneymakers

3 weeks ago | thespread.media | Rachel Baker |Maggie Bullock

Welcome to Spreadlandia, where two veteran editors readit ALL to winnow out only the best: juicy yarns, big ideas, deeply personal essays, and hot goss—aka, the full Spread. Plus: original interviews, podcasts, and more. Come hungry!Disco Spreadshimmiers,You know how celebrities marketing meno books and pills and unguents are always saying, “How come no one told me about this perimenopause thing?” We’d like to officially call bullshit on that, or at least put a moratorium on the idea.
The Conclave Begins

1 month ago | thespread.media | Rachel Baker |Maggie Bullock

Welcome to Spreadlandia, where two veteran editors readit ALL to winnow out only the best: juicy yarns, big ideas, deeply personal essays, and hot goss—aka, the full Spread. Plus: original interviews, podcasts, and more.
Razzle-Dazzle 'Em

1 month ago | thespread.media | Rachel Baker |Maggie Bullock

Welcome to the Spread, where two veteran editors readit ALL and deliver to you only the best: juicy yarns, big ideas, deeply personal essays, and hot goss—aka, the full Spread. Plus: original interviews, podcasts, and more. Come hungry!Spreadphiles,We’re gonna to do things a little different around here this week—at least in this intro (your reads are below, as per the usual)—in honor of Karen Durbin.
Clear!

1 month ago | thespread.media | Rachel Baker |Maggie Bullock

Two veteran editors readit ALL and deliver to you only the best: juicy yarns, big ideas, deeply personal essays, and hot goss—aka, the full Spread. Plus: original interviews, podcasts, and more.
Time (with You) Is Our Religion

1 month ago | thespread.media | Rachel Baker |Maggie Bullock

Two veteran editors read it ALL and deliver to you only the best: juicy yarns, big ideas, deeply personal essays, and hot goss—aka, the full Spread. Plus: original interviews, podcasts, and more.
Mrs. Robinson If You're Nasty

2 months ago | thespread.media | Rachel Baker

Two veteran editors read it ALL and deliver to you only the best: juicy yarns, big ideas, deeply personal essays, and hot goss—aka, the full Spread. Plus: original interviews, podcasts, and more.
The Stepford Diaries

2 months ago | thespread.media | Rachel Baker |Val Monroe |Heather Richardson

Two veteran editors read it ALL and deliver to you only the best: juicy yarns, big ideas, deeply personal essays, and hot goss—aka, the full Spread. Plus: original interviews, podcasts, and more. Come hungry!Want the full Spread, with all the fixins, every week? Become a paid subscriber here.
Bless Your Heart

Feb 27, 2025 | thespread.media | Rachel Baker

Two veteran editors read it ALL and deliver to you only the best: juicy yarns, big ideas, deeply personal essays, and hot goss—aka, the full Spread. Plus: original interviews, podcasts, and more. Come hungry!Want the full Spread, with all the fixins, every week? Become a paid subscriber here. Spreadsugars,How y’all doin’?