Substack is Still a Problem

The controversial newsletter company capped off a bad week by acquiring a company with multiple TERFs on its masthead. Surprise.

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
8 min readAug 4, 2021

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“In fairness, this is what I deserve for unmuting Glenn Greenwald.” Photo by Elisa Ventur on Unsplash

For one hot second, transphobia at Substack was a major news story. The newsletter platform was trendy in media circles. Its content often went viral. It paid writers, sometimes in the six-figure range…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.