Writers are hot.

Having a hard week with the patriarchy? Grab some tea and curl up with a good link.

The Hot List is guaranteed fuel for your fire. Especially with these HOT AF Writers!

Welcome to Hell.🔥 🤯 😭 😡

With our planet and democracy on fire, we need distraction and/or commiseration. Luckily with the creator economy and a 24/7 newscycle, you have no shortage of content to consume. But, how can you know what you click will be worth your time?

Enter the content curator––hi.👋🏻 it me.

The HOT LIST is here to help. Just what the dumpster fire ordered.

What can I expect when I read the Hot List? We share a variety of newsletters, long-form, magazine series, and other non-fiction from our network (The Collective), FLOWLab members, and other social justice futurists and historians. We also share more well-known writers to subscribe to (because there is so much out there you may have missed it anyway).

These works and writers we amplify not for the faint of heart. This is for the heart-led social justice humanitarians who want to learn, grow, and do better. It's for anyone who questions EVERYTHING and likes to go deeper.

These selected newsletters, long-forms, and features are just what the 2020's dumpster-fire-decade ordered.

Who is this for? Advocates, Allies, Accomplices, Creators, Writers, Researchers, Technologists, Educators, Founders, and friends...Anyone doing the work, wanting inspiration, solid content, and data/science/history informed positions. This is a community who gets it. Is that you? IYKYK.

What topics are HOT? A mix. Current events, academia and economics, civics, climate and human rights activism, media literacy, anti-racism, gender equality, accessibility, designing for inclusion, entrepreneurship, bro culture, solidarity economy, worker cooperatives, the philanthropic industrial complex, cultural history, and anything else we fancy.

The bulk of what we share will remind you the planet is burning and they're burning books too! We're still on earth after all, in a pandemic, breathing smoke from climate catastrophes, war, poverty, all the -isms, PLUS both sea levels and white supremacy on the rise. It sure is a lot to process. All of these problems are man-made, by men...so, uh...Yeah, like we said: Welcome to hell.

Is it all struggle, the fall of humanity, and doomsday? Actually, no. We share some helpful and optimistic content as well as some purely for joy, relaxation, reflection, or leisure.

When you need fuel for your fire, check The HOT LIST first. Save yourself from the firehose of content coming at you daily, doom scrolling, and a never ending feed of Ads and news selected by patriarchy to have you ignore the other stuff.

Process all the feels, feel less alone, learn, and be inspired by some seriously rad writing, incredible research, and human-centered storytelling.

Warning: A lot of what we share will be bonker balls. NSFW.

Content may make you audibly swear, shed a tear, laugh––so you don't cry, or want to crack that bottle of bubbly and toast the end of the world.

May not be safe for work, children, highly-sensitive people, empaths, under 18, millennials, Gen X, or Boomers. parents, caregivers, pet owners and animal lovers, people who love fresh air, and anyone who is a little bit tired.

Our goal: 5 minutes or 50 minutes. Anything you read here will be worth your time and attention.

Read some writers who are so hot right now.

THL Top 5 Spring 2022 - A Few Words

THL Top 5 Summer 2022 - Mic Drops

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Read the Neurodivergent Hot List - Special Edition here.

Want to support the Future of Work in Publishing, Content Design, and New Media? Compensate Creators.

We want to keep curating and creating for you. We're invested in surfacing rad change-makers and moving breath-takers. The HOT LIST - Top 5, and otherwise, takes time, and time is money for humans in the 2020s. The people we feature, like us, do their work for a higher purpose. They aren't branding purpose for profit; they are trying to change the system.

Community building, curating content, creating social justice campaigns, and connecting communities is work, even if it's Invisible Labor or part of the "Informal Economy"––aka, a woman's work. We love our mission but leading with purpose can't pay bills. Paying in exposure will not keep us warm. Our labor is not a favor.

How to show support. Period.

Ways to Compensate this Labor
Donate to FLOWLab⁵ Give through our nonprofit FLOWLab5.org which is fiscally hosted by Open Collective Foundation and your donation is tax deductible; (I am not a CPA.)
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WANT TO READ EVEN MORE?!

• Read more of The Hot List - Writers edition here. Next issue, Fall 2022

• Find the first 5 preview issues of the Hot List .

• Check out a special issue: The Neurodivergent Hot List.