rocket juju
@juliacraven.bsky.social
I write about Black women's health & well-being . I’m also an editor. Sign up for my newsletter: https://www.healthyfutures.blog/
🖤 I am who I think I am
🖤 I am who I think I am
I wrote about the
often-overlooked contributions of Black communities to environmental resilience and sustainable practices-and how we can pull those lessons forward to create a #HealthyFuture. open.substack.com/pub/juliacra...
often-overlooked contributions of Black communities to environmental resilience and sustainable practices-and how we can pull those lessons forward to create a #HealthyFuture. open.substack.com/pub/juliacra...
Black Histories of Sustainability Hold the Key to A Collectively Healthy Future
Time moves backward toward the present: Lessons from John Mbiti, Fannie Lou Hamer, the Gullah Geechee, and other Black elders and ancestors.
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I wrote about the
often-overlooked contributions of Black communities to environmental resilience and sustainable practices-and how we can pull those lessons forward to create a #HealthyFuture. open.substack.com/pub/juliacra...
often-overlooked contributions of Black communities to environmental resilience and sustainable practices-and how we can pull those lessons forward to create a #HealthyFuture. open.substack.com/pub/juliacra...
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Pivoting one of the last fearless political pubs to “career development” coverage…very, very dark news.
November 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Pivoting one of the last fearless political pubs to “career development” coverage…very, very dark news.
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
This is Reaganomics 101: Make the face of welfare a Black woman, and people will support defunding family-supportive policies.
ROB SCHMITT: People are using SNAP benefits to get their nails done, to get their weaves and their hair. This is a really ugly program.
SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.
SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.
November 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This is Reaganomics 101: Make the face of welfare a Black woman, and people will support defunding family-supportive policies.
What does a healthy future look like? I asked this question to Attia Taylor, founder of Womanly Magazine, and our conversation turned into a powerful reflection on health education, storytelling, and Black women’s wellness. www.healthyfutures.blog/p/attia-tayl...
Attia Taylor on Storytelling, Black Wellness, and the Power of Womanly
The founder of Womanly Magazine on the importance of Black women’s stories and why creating safe spaces for honest conversation is essential to collective well-being.
www.healthyfutures.blog
August 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
What does a healthy future look like? I asked this question to Attia Taylor, founder of Womanly Magazine, and our conversation turned into a powerful reflection on health education, storytelling, and Black women’s wellness. www.healthyfutures.blog/p/attia-tayl...
I wrote about why people care so much about protein right now. www.healthyfutures.blog/p/enough-wit...
Enough With The Protein Propaganda
No, I don't want protein dusted popcorn. Have you lost your mind?
www.healthyfutures.blog
July 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I wrote about why people care so much about protein right now. www.healthyfutures.blog/p/enough-wit...
Pandemic aid offered families a rare glimpse of financial stability, proving poverty is shaped by policy, not personal choice.
Our report uncovers the impact of relief efforts & what’s needed for lasting change www.newamerica.org/better-life-...
Our report uncovers the impact of relief efforts & what’s needed for lasting change www.newamerica.org/better-life-...
A Glimpse of Stability: The Impact of Pandemic Aid on Families in Poverty
In-depth case studies and interviews with families in poverty reveal how pandemic-era government aid provided a brief moment of stability.
www.newamerica.org
January 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Pandemic aid offered families a rare glimpse of financial stability, proving poverty is shaped by policy, not personal choice.
Our report uncovers the impact of relief efforts & what’s needed for lasting change www.newamerica.org/better-life-...
Our report uncovers the impact of relief efforts & what’s needed for lasting change www.newamerica.org/better-life-...
Introducing Healthy Futures—my health & wellness newsletter! 🌿💻
It’s a space dedicated to care for Black folks, health equity, and tackling misinformation. Together, we’ll explore how ancestral knowledge & tech can inform a healthier, more equitable future.
www.healthyfutures.blog
It’s a space dedicated to care for Black folks, health equity, and tackling misinformation. Together, we’ll explore how ancestral knowledge & tech can inform a healthier, more equitable future.
www.healthyfutures.blog
Healthy Futures | Julia Craven | Substack
A newsletter that discusses health, wellness, history, and the role the internet and technology play within it all. Click to read Healthy Futures, by Julia Craven, a Substack publication with thousand...
www.healthyfutures.blog
January 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Introducing Healthy Futures—my health & wellness newsletter! 🌿💻
It’s a space dedicated to care for Black folks, health equity, and tackling misinformation. Together, we’ll explore how ancestral knowledge & tech can inform a healthier, more equitable future.
www.healthyfutures.blog
It’s a space dedicated to care for Black folks, health equity, and tackling misinformation. Together, we’ll explore how ancestral knowledge & tech can inform a healthier, more equitable future.
www.healthyfutures.blog
Join me and my colleagues at the Better Life Lab for a virtual discussion on the results of our forthcoming two-year study on how pandemic era federal funding improved the lives and wellbeing of families! newamerica.org/better-life-...
A Glimpse of Stability
The Impact of Pandemic Aid on Families in Poverty
newamerica.org
November 22, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Join me and my colleagues at the Better Life Lab for a virtual discussion on the results of our forthcoming two-year study on how pandemic era federal funding improved the lives and wellbeing of families! newamerica.org/better-life-...
Even as an editor, I still feel this way too 😭😭
The thing about being edited is that it will always elicit this feeling of “So you think I’m dumb??? You think I’m dumb and you hate me??” but it’s actually happening because your editor doesn’t want you or the publication to sound silly.
November 21, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Even as an editor, I still feel this way too 😭😭
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I.C.C. Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and a top Hamas official.
Its chief prosecutor had sought the arrests for war crimes in Gaza.
www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...
Its chief prosecutor had sought the arrests for war crimes in Gaza.
www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...
Here are the latest developments.
The court’s chief prosecutor had sought the arrests over war crimes in Gaza. The court also issued a warrant for Hamas’s military chief, Muhammad Deif, whom Israel has said it killed.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:56 PM
I.C.C. Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and a top Hamas official.
Its chief prosecutor had sought the arrests for war crimes in Gaza.
www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...
Its chief prosecutor had sought the arrests for war crimes in Gaza.
www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...
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no ♥️
November 17, 2024 at 12:09 PM
no ♥️
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Awww hell nah don’t go in that kitchen without confidence they gone talk about your for years
this going be my first time cooking for thanksgiving 😩 im scared
November 16, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Awww hell nah don’t go in that kitchen without confidence they gone talk about your for years
I wrote about *gestures broadly* all this through the lens of health and well-being. juliacraven.substack.com/p/onward
Onward.
Trying to make sense out of this shit.
open.substack.com
November 15, 2024 at 4:44 PM
I wrote about *gestures broadly* all this through the lens of health and well-being. juliacraven.substack.com/p/onward
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It’s true that there’s a lot of bad stuff in our food here in America. Deregulation isn’t too likely to fix that. www.vox.com/explain-it-t...
Why are foods banned in other places still on US grocery shelves?
Who decides what can and can’t be in food in the US?
www.vox.com
November 15, 2024 at 1:31 PM
It’s true that there’s a lot of bad stuff in our food here in America. Deregulation isn’t too likely to fix that. www.vox.com/explain-it-t...
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“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.”– Ursula K. Le Guin
November 14, 2024 at 1:24 AM
“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.”– Ursula K. Le Guin
Must be worms on the braaaaaain
Trump is reportedly expected to nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services
Trump expected to select Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead HHS
The choice will roil many public health experts after his years of touting debunked claims that vaccines cause autism.
www.politico.com
November 14, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Must be worms on the braaaaaain
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NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Satirical outlet The Onion has bought Alex Jones' Infowars at auction, relatives of Sandy Hook shooting victims say.
November 14, 2024 at 2:04 PM
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Satirical outlet The Onion has bought Alex Jones' Infowars at auction, relatives of Sandy Hook shooting victims say.
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when i go back to twitter after an hour on bluesky
April 29, 2023 at 7:59 PM
when i go back to twitter after an hour on bluesky