December Favourites

+ Monthly Reading Resources & An Extra Essay

It has been a long year! And to be totally honest, I am somewhat glad that 2024 has come to an end. This will be my last dispatch for 2024 from The Disabled Feminist.

Photo by Z Graphica on Unsplash

This month has meant there has been some last minute travel - I covered London and Manchester (!) this month, as well as making last minute trips for social reasons. I also visited Brighton and Bicester Village, as well as ‘unseen’ areas a lot more. As a ‘year that never was’, this has been somewhat anticlimactic as a month end.

And because it’s Christmas, I have taken the paywall off the most popular despatch for this year.

Blue Nights, an essay of grief and loss, was posted in the early hours of a May morning. Soho is a city that I think of as ‘blue’, an alchemy of so many stories and lives that intertwine;

Elif Shafak

of

Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

nominated me for the Substack Recommends list off the back of it. Blue Nights, the work of Joan Didion on a similar topic, was my book of choice at the time of writing.

There is a majesty in the winding backstreets streets, made of ghosts and fragments, stories and the easy, collegiate universes of artsy strangers for one night and one night only. Click below to read for free:

Blue Nights

As a reminder, you can still subscribe to this newsletter on the paywall. It’ll support my work as a journalist, and you’ll receive more of my work, plus bonus resources, as a result.

It takes a lot of work to write this, and it’ll mean I can continue to write while also looking after myself as a chronically ill individual.

Wherever in the world this finds you, I hope this finds you safe and well in these times. Have a wonderful Christmas - and see you in 2025!