The Spread Media

In our weekly newsletter and its accompanying website, we—Rachel Baker and Maggie Bullock—act as your dedicated explorers, uncovering the finest articles focused on women. Every week, The Spread offers a new selection of insightful, humorous, quirky, and thoroughly researched stories about women that are sure to impress you.

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The Babe(s) and the Bathwater

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!Spreadsperts,Hailey Bieber’s squeaky $1B deal? Old news. Sydney Sweeney has “made waves” this week by launching a soap with Dr. Squatch.
Be There When We Feed the Tree

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. 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

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. 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

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. 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!

2 months 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.
You Belong Among the Wildflowers

2 months 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. Come hungry!Spread Nation,At a moment that finds many of us wondering if we’ll ever get to retire, Cate Blanchett shocked us by doing what might be considered the opposite of “quiet quitting.” “I’m giving up,” she declared recently on a British radio program.
Time (with You) Is Our Religion

2 months 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

Mar 19, 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.