Recommended by Taylor Allyn
Chronicles of Change is for people who are tired of pretending they are fine. Jacquie writes through heartbreak, culture, and healing in real time, inviting you to tell the truth about your own becoming while you walk beside hers.
Our Two Minds is a soft place for big feelings. Kevin writes about intention, emotion, and everyday life with a calm clarity that makes you feel understood and then quietly invites you to grow.
Notes From The Undrowned is a lantern for Black queer memory and political witness. Saint Trey writes about grief, state violence, faith, and friendship with a lyric clarity that makes you braver about naming what you already know but have been afraid to say aloud.
Museguided is what happens when philosophy refuses to be dry. Tamara goes very deep into suffering, desire, and modern life with a skeptical, elegant intelligence that leaves you seeing your own patterns more clearly and with less self-deception.
The title says it all—but the writing says even more. Relatable with bite. Vulnerable with wit. This Black girl writes the way we need to see ourselves more often: unfiltered, smart, and never small. It’s the kind of voice I hold close—and want to see spread all over this platform. Follow her. Read her. Lift her up. —Taylor | @unspunworld
In halfrican, Vic Mensa writes from the crack between Africa and Black America, fame and ordinary grief, protest and prayer. These are essays that do not chase virality. They sit with contradiction, with lineage, with the kind of responsibility you feel long after you close the tab. If you are hungry for work that risks something real, let this be on your list.
Redesign America is where history, policy, and grief sit in the same room and ask what freedom should actually look like. Mustafa Ali-Smith writes with a steady, grounded urgency that makes the news feel less like chaos and more like a call to responsibility.
