Hello! I have missed you!
I mss writing this newsletter. I miss researching forgotten women from history. I miss hearing from thousands of you and reading your responses to the stories of Isabel Zendal Gómez, Blanche Dunn, the Graham-Johnstone sisters and others.
But the last three years without this newsletter have been busy, busy, busy. I turned 33. I co-wrote a book about money (you can buy it!) and quit my full-time job to start a new gig as a podcast host (first episode drops later this week!). I started freelancing and writing the stories long-buried in my ideas folder. I even got a dog!
And yet — I miss A Woman to Know! I even have a “AWTK” iPhone note still going. Every time I read a plaque and notice a mysterious name, I add it to the list. When I tour the Met and find a new-to-me artist, I add her to the list. Many of you even continue to email me with recommendations! I add them all to the list.
And now that I am my own boss (for the first time ever!), I want to bring this newsletter back. I envision the new iteration of AWTK to be much more personal — some work updates from me, some book reviews, some links to cool internet things and (of course) some profiles on incredible women from history.
I’d like to learn more from you all about how my vision for this space would match up with your expectations. Indulge me, won’t you?
And last one … you’ll know why soon!
Please respond to this email with any other thoughts you’d like to share.
Thanks for making it all this with me, y’all. More to come.
Until next time,
Julia 💌
I can't afford any more subscriptions. It's too much. I would be willing to do a one-time fee for access to certain content. The podcast Beyond Repair is doing this and I find it so refreshing. Listeners could pay a one time fee of $25 for early access to the whole catalog, plus some bonus content, but it doesn't have to be a subscription.
I would pay but I would encourage you if you haven't set it up yet to consider migrating off of substack, personally I don't love financially supporting them.
Also very excited about Dear America. I read most if not all of them and a ton of the other ones (the royal ones etc) I have a story about one of the my name is America ones or whatever the ones they marketed as the "boy books" were.