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  • Meghan Murphy

    I host The Same Drugs on YouTube and all your favorite podcasting apps. Find me on Substack at The Same Drugs and on X @meghanemurphy.

  • Sarah Mittermaier

    Researcher and freelance writer/photog. Not a disembodied spirit.

  • Jo Bartosch

    Journalist - words in The Critic, Spiked, Telegraph, New Statesman, The Times, Unherd, The Spectator, MoS & more. Co-author of upcoming book Pornocracy.

  • Alexandra Macey Davis

    Alexandra Macey Davis is a writer, mom of three, and the managing editor of Public Discourse. She writes from Raleigh, North Carolina.

  • Ivana Greco

    Attorney and homeschooling mom of four. Writing about women, children, families, and family policy.

  • Donovan Cleckley

    Donovan Cleckley holds a BA in English and Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Montevallo and an MA in English from Tulane University.

  • Beatrice Scudeler

    I write on literature, religion, culture, and motherhood: https://share.google/bf7hSypZhlYt2nuY9 You can read my work in Public Discourse, The Critic, The Spectator, Seen & Unseen, Fairer Disputations, and more.

  • Nadya Williams

    Nadya Williams is Managing Editor at Mere Orthodoxy and Interim Director of the MFA in Creative Writing at Ashland University. She is the author of three books, including Christians Reading Classics (Zondervan Academic, 2025).

  • Fairer Disputations

    Sex-realist feminism for the 21st century. Full text of each original available for free on our website. Sign up for our weekly newsletter: https://fairerdisputations.substack.com/

  • Victoria Smith

    Victoria Smith is feminist writer based in the UK. She is the author of 'Hags: The demonisation of middle-aged women' and 'Unkind: How kindness culture punishes women'.

  • Esther Berry

    Catholic mother of two. I teach the Great Books and try to use philosophy for good.

  • Darby Saxbe

    Professor at the University of Southern California. I study the neurobiology of parenthood & wrote the book Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How it Shapes Men's Lives.

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