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Cheryl Graham
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Writer, rider 🚲. Music essays at KORD, PopMatters. I have a Substack about mixtapes. Formerly @FreeTransform on the bird app. 🏳️‍🌈
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Mixtape Manifesto — My Substack where I excavate old mixtapes, write about them, and re-create them as Spotify playlists:

mixtapemanifesto.substack.com
Mix Tape Manifesto | Cheryl Graham | Substack
In which I revisit old mixtapes and write about why, when, and where I made them. In other words, mixtape as memoir. I also make new ones and share playlists. Click to read Mix Tape Manifesto, by Cher...
mixtapemanifesto.substack.com
Saturday #2solve
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Singer puts the curtains back up
December 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I have a substack for this very thing
December 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Thursday #2solve
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Cheated decline
December 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
New Substack:
A little bit country, a little bit not.
MTM13 - Country Crooners
A mix CD c. 2001
mixtapemanifesto.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Some more sad fall songs. A mixtape from 1996:
MTM12 - Sullen Girl
aka Depression, Side B
mixtapemanifesto.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Friday #2solve

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Web journaled pretentiously
November 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
New mix CD on Substack. You can download the whole thing in one continuous audio file.
MTM10 - Oktoberfest
Yet another fall mix, and it's a good one.
mixtapemanifesto.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Is #BakeOff Series 13 the queerest ever?
October 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Reposted by Cheryl Graham
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October 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
New mixtape, except it’s a CD from 2006:
MTM08 - Autumn Sweater
It's pumpkin spice mixtape season!
open.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
There was this dilapidated adobe row house in the barrio in Tucson. This couple bought it and spent 4 years rehabbing it into a really cool dwelling. They had a whole blog about everything they did. They said it would be their forever home. Then they sold it to Diane Keaton for $1.5 million. 1/2
October 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Wednesday #2solve
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Fruitful hunting cries
October 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Tuesday #2solve
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Method of calculating an eating disorder
September 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
New Substack post and playlist:
MTM06 - Summer's End
Holding on to the last rays of light…
mixtapemanifesto.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Tuesday #2solve
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Bragging about the words to my song
September 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Eno’s “I’ll Come Running” playing at my local watering hole/upscale bodega fills me with joy.
September 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Why I now hate Google, et al.
September 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
New Substack, old mixtape:
open.substack.com/pub/mixtapem...
MTM05 - Self Portrait
Whole lotta 1992
open.substack.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Guys, I think I’ve become one of those disheveled old people that hangs out in the library for hours. ( #amwriting tho)
September 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Just overheard someone say the “cinnamon-tography” was good
September 5, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Sunday #2solve
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Fooling around nuisance
August 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Just learned of this AI slop on Apple Music. “Jerow Scheel” is a 3-, 4-, or 5-piece metal band, a country singer, an all-woman metal band, an emo singer, and maybe more. #AISlop #fakemusic
August 31, 2025 at 4:53 AM
New mixtape (but not a tape) up on Substack:

mixtapemanifesto.substack.com/p/good-thing
Good Thing
Good things for good people
mixtapemanifesto.substack.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I’m at my favorite watering hole (well, one of them), and sitting at the end of the bar is a big fat … volume of Leo Tolstoy. I’m surreptitiously trying to see who’s reading it/using it as a prop.
August 24, 2025 at 3:38 AM