Substacks recommended by Jean Vengua

Recommended by Jean Vengua

Spotlighting Filipino stories, writers and creatives on Substack and beyond.

A collection of the finest newsletters with fewer than 1,000 subscribers, with special love given to the under 500 subscriber stacks out there.

Rachielle Sheffler (Baguio Girl)

Recovering Ilocano is my passion project. I seek my genuine Ilocano identity through oral histories, interviews, research, and family archives. Works in progress: Baguio Girl: A Memoir Born There: An Ilocano Family's Migration Story

Explorations into Filipino, Ilocano, and Fil-Am family history, culture, and memories. I always learn something new here.

- Jean Vengua

The Patchwork Principle

By Jeremy Mathew

Helping every day people see themselves in art history.

Kent’s Substack

By Kent Peterson

I usually type about one page a day here on an old manual typewriter.

Anarchy Unfolds

By Peter Clayborne

Overturn the upside-down. A toolbox for those who dream of a world without capitalism or the state.

Free Words

By Sal Randolph

New ways of seeing and the wild joy of writing from artist and poet Sal Randolph

Untrickled

A thoughtful look at culture, politics, economics and lifestyles through the lens of income inequality. Books:The Trailer Park Rules: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CYW3MRRB Strapped: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJNRCQSJ

The Department of Homeland Inspiration

By Melissa Smedley

Art Ranger podcasts about art and culture and worlds of words. She's your tour guide to the absurd.

SOCIAL MEDIA ESCAPE CLUB

By Social Media Escape Club

Quit social media and be free

Monterey Neighbors & Friends

By Joe Livernois

A wry narrative journey into Monterey County's quirky history, featuring stories about the place you may have never known before. Or maybe you have, but not this way. What's the point of history if we can't have fun with it?

Fog Chaser

By Matt

A new original instrumental song every month from a Pacific Northwest-based musician and composer, along with visuals, poetry, and more.

Weekly meditative musical compositions with visuals.

- Jean Vengua

LINDALAY’s Newsletter

Making and thinking. Thinking and making.

Lindalay's newsletter focuses on art, creativity, utility, and all those inner monsters that need to come out and dance.

- Jean Vengua

Letters by Deepa

By Deepa Paul

Personal essays on intimacy and relationships, motherhood and family, and the never-ending creative process of writing to become fully myself, by the Filipina-Indian author of ASK ME HOW IT WORKS: LOVE IN AN OPEN MARRIAGE (Viking UK, May 2025).

Eulipion Outpost

Recommended by Jean Vengua