🥰 Celebrating the love this week
An introduction, an unlocking, a giveaway
👋🏼 Hey everyone,
There are so many new faces and names hanging out around here ever since the What To Read interview went live! If that’s how you found Unruly Figures, welcome! I’m so dang excited to have you here. I thought, since there are so new people this week, I’d do quick welcome post, plus a little something to celebrate hitting so many subscribers. Let’s hop in, yeah?
Unruly Figures is a podcast about the rule-breakers, the ne’er-do-wells, the rebels, mutineers, and revolutionaries. Twice a month I cover the lives and times of history’s biggest rebels, talking about how they broke the rules and the impact they had on society around them. So far I’ve covered Joe Carstairs and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Next week I’ll be covering Anne Bonny, and it’s going to be great.
Here are some of the features you can find around this Substack:
Ad-free episodes — here’s the episode on Joe Carstairs.
Transcripts, photos, and research bibliographies — here’s everything about Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Discussion threads about each episode — come chat about Joe!
Behind-the-scenes peeks, a section I’m tentatively calling Unruly Reflections (bit cheesy though, isn’t it?) — I’ve got one up so far about starting a podcast.
There’s a Suggestion Box too — tell me about your favorite historical rule-breaker!
You can also get to know me and ask me anything in the comments!
Naturally, you can also follow Unruly Figures on Instagram and Twitter.
🎉 To celebrate such a cool week (seriously, I’m so happy you all are here and interested in this podcast!) I decided to unlock the ad-free episode about Jean-Michel Basquiat to all subscribers as a little thank you. You can check that out here:
🧪I want to try a little experiment with you all! It’s a little giveaway of sorts. If you share this post with someone and they subscribe to Unruly Figures as a result, I want to gift you BOTH free access to all the locked posts on Unruly Figures. I don’t plan to do this very often, because I rely on paid subscriptions to fund my research, but I thought it would be a fun way to celebrate this week.
So, here are the rules:
You can share this post anywhere. Email it to a friend, shout it from the rooftops! (If you share it on Instagram or Twitter, tag me, @UnrulyFigures.)
Tell your friend to leave a comment on this post saying they heard about it from you!
Hit Reply in your email inbox and tell me who you told about the podcast. “I told my friend Bekah, she said she’s subscribing today!”
I’ll give the first three pairs of friends (you and your buddy who signs up) free access for 90-days. Ninety! Days! So hurry!
Substack isn’t really built for these sorts of giveaways, so this is definitely an experiment. If things go awry, I hope you’ll bear with me!
Good luck!
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