The Elysian

5 days ago | elysian.press | Elle Griffin

This essay is for TERRAFORM, an essay collection about the future of our planet. Support the project by collecting the digital or print edition đŸ‘‡đŸ»Imagine walking through a forest that has the same rights to exist as you and me. Imagine the forest cannot be sold or harmed or killed the same way that humans cannot be sold or harmed or killed. (That is to say, not without consequences.)Now imagine it self-governs.

1 week ago | elysian.press | Elle Griffin

Research is one of my favorite leisure activities. I love cozying up with a text, taking notes, following research rabbit holes to understand it better, and thinking through my own ideas about it. Sometimes that thinking becomes an essay, often it doesn’t, but I thought it would be fun to start sharing the notes from the margins of my research as well as annotated texts of the literature I’m studying.

2 weeks ago | elysian.press | Elle Griffin

This essay is for TERRAFORM, an essay collection about the future of our planet. Support the project by collecting the digital or print edition 👇🏻Terraforming Mars has long been a trope of science fiction. Could tiny particles injected into the planet’s atmosphere warm the planet, melt its ice caps, and turn it into a habitable planet? Something that’s long interested me: Could we terraform Earth too? Could we make the parts of our world that are currently uninhabitable, habitable?

2 weeks ago | elysian.press | Elle Griffin

• None Terraform is a new essay collection featuring six writers exploring the future of our planet. • None You can support the project by purchasing the digital or print pamphlet here. • None Join our TERRAFORM literary salon discussion. Paid subscribers can join for free. RSVP here. I’m excited to introduce TERRAFORM, our third cooperative media project for t…

3 weeks ago | elysian.press | Elle Griffin |Evan Armstrong

I’d always wanted to create a newsletter bundle until I met . When we met a few years ago, he was an early employee at Substack and even wrote his own Substack newsletter, until it was bought by Every and he went to work for the newsletter bundle. Back then, readers like myself could subscribe for $200/year and access 5-10 writers, each writing independent newsletters for the bundle. The idea was that for one subscription fee, readers could subscribe to many writers. But it didn’t work.