What is Solar Light?

Solar Light is a newsletter written by Lydia Laurenson. Here is how one early paid subscriber explained his decision to subscribe: “I've noticed your projects for years. They repeatedly are serious and without fear. I've admired the intensity and willingness to go anywhere that calls.”

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Here are some of my most best-loved articles from recent years:
• Pregnancy, Birth, Death, and Life: Reflections on Mother’s Day. Reflecting on the spiritual experience of motherhood.
• The Time I Joined Peace Corps and Worked With An African HIV Program for Sex Workers in eSwatini. Once upon a time, long ago and far away, I joined the Peace Corps and worked on HIV in Africa.
• Vibe Coding and The Future of Media: I (Sort Of) Built An AI Fact-Checker. How I learned to stop worrying and love what artificial intelligence will do for journalism.
• Tanith Lee, BDSM, Feminism, Et Cetera. A tribute to my favorite author and her brilliant illuminations of femininity.
• Sex and Power. Tell me: What are women for?
• Why I Was Part Of The Neoreactionary or Dissident Right Movement In 2020. And a few things that happened while I was there.
• My Life In The Co-Living Scene, and Related Alt Culture Observations. Some dynamics of small co-living communities, and how they fit into the broader culture.
• My Year In San Francisco's $2 Million Secret Society Startup: The Director’s Cut. The true story of a secret society that was also an art project that was also a startup.
• What It’s Like To Suddenly Start Completely Believing In God. It happened to me.

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