🌐C'mon In and Get Involved 🆓

For writers of women's health dedicated Substack publications and the readers who love to read about it

If you haven’t yet read my Welcome post explaining the purpose and focus of this Substack, please read that post first.

It’s more important than ever to keep spreading our health content and publications across the Substackverse and beyond. Read below to learn how this Substack can help yours.

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Who is this Substack for?

🖋 Writers: If your entire Substack is founded on women’s health topics, this is your new home away from your Substack home. There will be opportunities later for those who write occasional health articles, but for this launch, I’d like to keep it dedicated to Substack publications focused only on women’s health topics.

Bells and Whistles: Once readership expands, you’ll have leaderboard marketing opportunities and innovative promotional activities to participate in. For more information, visit Why Pledge? Pledging is not necessary to participate although consider subscribing at the No Pledge level to receive announcements and support other women’s health writers.

📰 Readers: This will be your one-stop shop for finding articles and publications committed to women’s health by writers who write from their training, knowledge, and/or experience. Substack is known for its quality content, which means no ad intrusion or other distractions.

You’ll be able to easily find information by topic without Substack's ineffective search function getting in the way. You can search by topic in the Directory on the navigation bar. Eazy breezy. As a matter of fact, head on over to the Directory now.

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How Does It Work For Writers?

This will be a mostly self-service Substack to promote your Substack for free in the comments section of weekly specific health subject posts from one of the topics below starting Monday, December 2.

You’ll also have the opportunity to support the collective as a Substack writer of women’s health which unlocks additional bespoke marketing and promotion of your Substack.

We’ll cover the following topics from a woman’s point of view or geared towards women:

Women’s Health 365 Collective Topic List

• Mental Health (such as anxiety, depression, trauma, health anxiety, grief, bipolar, etc…)

• Fertility & Reproduction

• Menstrual Cycle

• Menopause & Perimenopause

• Female Neurodivergence

• Women’s Wellness (Fitness, nutrition, etc)

• Medical Conditions – either women's specific medical conditions or written from a woman’s point of view (such as fibromyalgia, Hashimoto’s, diabetes, heart disease, PCOS, etc.…)

• Autoimmune Disorders

• Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating

• Cancer

• Women’s Midlife Health and Aging Medicine

• Sexual Medicine (conditions that affect sexual activity)

• Pregnancy

• Women’s Health Politics (equity, access, rights, activism)

• Gender Transition Health

• Non-English Women’s Health Substacks

• NEW! Women’s Health Humor - Women’s health doesn’t have to be so heavy all of the time. We learn by laughter, too! Did you write about a funny experience at the GYN? (I know I have one!) or maybe you wrote about an amazing birth story? Anyone have some hot flash humor? We’ll share them in this topic.

🆓 We’ll build a WHC365 Directory together as I publish a new call for publications and articles that feature that week's topic every Monday for the next 13 weeks. Subscribe so you don’t miss when your topic(s) are ready for the Directory. Going forward, I’ll do this once a year so that content stays fresh, but if you’re just joining us please continue to post your publication and articles throughout the year.

*If I’m missing any topics you’d like to see listed, just let me know via DM.

GUEST BOOK: Writer’s Guidelines for Participation:

Whether you’re a healthcare professional or write from a lived experience with women’s health and healthcare, you’re welcome here.

However, I want to keep our community focused on women’s health, so I ask the following requests:

1. You own a Substack publication focusing exclusively on women’s health topics (sorry, fashion, beauty, and parenting don’t count).

2. You publish articles regularly, which means weekly or biweekly (at least twice a month).

At this time, I’m focusing on publications dedicated to health, however in the future I may send out calls for individual health articles from Substackers who don’t write exclusively about women’s health. Subscribe now to stay tuned.

This collective is free for writers, yay free marketing for your Substack! Once readership is established, I’ll offer additional leaderboard advertising, featured posts, featured stories, promotional Notes of your Substack, cross-posts of your articles and more! If you’re interested, let me know by pledging when you subscribe. If you’d like more information, read here.

Writers, now it’s your turn…

Jump into the comments section and introduce yourself!

1. Your FIRST/FULL NAME or Handle (whichever you’re comfortable with)

2. Your PUBLICATION’S NAME

3. Post your PUBLICATION’S LINK

4. TELL US what your publication is about in 1 - 2 sentences.

Please keep it brief because I’ll use this information to promote your Substacks. I’ll also be resorting this list frequently from newest to oldest comments first. Once you comment, I’ll follow your profile from here.

And, consider sharing your comment as a Note to help get the word out. Thank you!

Not sure yet? DM me, and I’ll be happy to answer any questions.

The official launch of the WHC365 Directory is Monday, December 2nd, when I announce the first call for a topic and Substack publications that focus on that topic or have written an article about it. Subscribe, and you’ll be notified in your inbox the moment we officially start.

And, hey, by the way, I look forward to meeting you!