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The Blahcksheep We are an independent multilingual publishing platform for unique, provocative and contrarian views from across the world.

We accept personal and professional essays, reflective pieces, opinions, experiments, long reads and all sorts of blahs.

What does it mean to be a woman in pain? To be dying and still be judged for your choices?This personal essay is about s...
11/09/2025

What does it mean to be a woman in pain? To be dying and still be judged for your choices?

This personal essay is about survival, stigma, and the cruel absurdities of how women’s bodies are seen and treated.

But it is also about the quiet strength of friends who carry you through tough times, and the violence of a system that cares more about your marital status than saving your life...

'I Was Dying & They Asked If I Was Married' is not an easy read, but it’s an unforgettable one.

Read it, sit with it, share it, because stories like this must be heard.

Check out the full essay on The Blahcksheep website (🔗 in bio).

This week’s list is a little urgent, a little poetic, and a lot of fun ✨From living like the clock’s ticking (because it...
31/07/2025

This week’s list is a little urgent, a little poetic, and a lot of fun ✨

From living like the clock’s ticking (because it is) to a brilliant poet who lives on, a memoir i can’t wait for, a space adventure you’ve gotta try, catty accessories, surrealist art, and a Danish word that feels like a warm hug - there’s something here for every blahcksheep. Dive in!

P.S. If you’re new here: hi, i see you! I put together this fun little list every week, and i’d love to know what your week’s been like too. Hit subscribe so you don’t miss the next one. Have a great week! 💚

You can read the entire listicle on The Blahcksheep Substack (🔗 in bio)

🎨 by Leonora Carrington

[ newsletter, listicle, blacksheep, black, sheep, poetry, films, books, art, music, fun, memes, soft, girl, slow, life, week, discovery, explore, green ]

🌻Reading the Quran with Amma By My Side by Laraib is an independent journalist committed to telling stories that spark...
17/07/2025

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Reading the Quran with Amma By My Side by

Laraib is an independent journalist committed to telling stories that spark dialogue and inspire change. Her work explores the intersections of environment, agriculture, rural India, culture, and identity.

In her own words, what makes her a blahcksheep: "I’ve always gravitated toward the quieter, complicated truths—stories that rarely make it into mainstream narratives. As the first journalist in a family that valued stability, I chose uncertainty, fieldwork, and voice over silence. Questioning norms and embracing vulnerability has been my quiet act of defiance."

Read her entire personal essay on The Blahcksheep 🔖

[personal, essay, mother, daughter, relationship, quran, faith, love, urdu, writing, life, published]

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17/06/2025

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This week’s listicle is out on our Substack (🔗 in bio)!What’s inside? A classic French cake recipe, a cloud-like gluten-...
06/06/2025

This week’s listicle is out on our Substack (🔗 in bio)!

What’s inside? A classic French cake recipe, a cloud-like gluten-free dessert, Japanese sweet rolled omelettes, a board game set in medieval Spain, a Robert Bresson film, a Dan Brown page-turner, a personal essay by V.S. Naipaul, our French Word of the Week & more!

Subscribe to our Substack to get this list of tiny treats and terrific thoughts from our Editor-in-Sheep delivered fresh to your inbox every Thursday! 🐑💌

Happy grazing!

🎨 by the brilliant

“I want you to come to the mist-laced hills of Pakyong with me.Here, every ritual is a thread back to the stories, custo...
29/05/2025

“I want you to come to the mist-laced hills of Pakyong with me.

Here, every ritual is a thread back to the stories, customs, and kin that once shaped my grandmother’s world.

I want you to notice the everyday life in these frames.
The hills.
The people.
The rituals.
The quiet continuity.

The ways we mourn,
and love,
and remember,
and go on.

I want you to
sit with the mourners.
hear the chants.
feel the rain.
taste the pomelo.

and in the act of looking,
remember what it means to belong,"

writes Lungmying Lepcha, an 18 year old writer and reader from East Sikkim.

'My Mother is a Feminist — Just Not the Kind I Can Come Out To'Our mothers can be complicated — flawed, fierce, and fr...
27/05/2025

'My Mother is a Feminist — Just Not the Kind I Can Come Out To'

Our mothers can be complicated — flawed, fierce, and fragile. In this tender yet sharp personal essay about mothers, queerness, and the quiet negotiations we call love, captures that tension with heartbreaking precision.

Read the entire essay on The Blahcksheep website (🔗 in bio)

A new card game drop 🌀, a killer music video, a reality show i'm binging, iconic Urdu magazines, blue buttons at Juhu, a...
16/05/2025

A new card game drop 🌀, a killer music video, a reality show i'm binging, iconic Urdu magazines, blue buttons at Juhu, a fun word game, Bananas, Beaches and Bases, & an Arabic word of the week!

This week's listicle is now out on our Substack!
(🔗 in bio)

Image 1: At the Lunch Table and the Morning Newspaper (1898) by L A Ring
Image 2: Cover of Shama Magazine

Do you remember this iconic poster: “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?” But do you know the group b...
10/05/2025

Do you remember this iconic poster: “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?”

But do you know the group behind that kickass campaign?

Enter the feminist art activist group Guerrilla Girls, aka the masked avengers of the art world! Born in 1985 in New York, they were absolutely done with the patriarchy - with the art world being too white, too male, and too indifferent to diversity.

So they decided to don gorilla masks and adopt the names of dead women artists like Käthe Kollwitz, Alma Thomas, Rosalba Carriera, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Julia de Burgos, and Hannah Höch to throw shade, stats, and serious feminist fury at museums, galleries, and auction houses.

Their mission? To expose the sexism, racism, and elitism baked into the art world - one billboard, poster, and protest at a time.

Inspiring? Hell yeah!

This, and more, in our latest Substack listicle, 'Things I Discovered' (🔗 in bio).

🎨 by Yuko Shimizu is a badass Japanese illustrator based in New York City, known for her bold, haunting New Yorker cove...
25/04/2025

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Yuko Shimizu is a badass Japanese illustrator based in New York City, known for her bold, haunting New Yorker covers and stunning visual storytelling.

Her work fuses traditional Japanese aesthetics with modern, often surreal themes, making it quite unforgettable!

This, and more, in this week's 'Things I Discovered' listicle by Editor-in-Sheep
✨ out on our Substack (🔗 in bio)

The listicle is backkkk! ✨Check your inbox!
10/04/2025

The listicle is backkkk! ✨

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