It’s been a minute since we sent a newsletter. If you originally signed up on Substack, this is still Emily Nagoski’s very chill email list. We post on Buttondown now. It’s very nice. I’m Mr. Emily here to catch you up.

Emily has been on sabbatical to try and recover from Long Covid. So of course she taught herself to play ukulele. She’s written a bunch of songs based on the questions folks have been asking her for… 30 years now?

She’s doing a secret test show on September 15 @7pm at The Ripped Bodice in Culver City, California. Bring your questions about sex and Emily will try to answer them with a song. She will be signing books after the show.

Tickets are $22.28 and are store credit you can spend at The Ripped Bodice. This is the only trip she has planned right now, but fingers crossed.

For more backstory on how this musical “came” about, she recently spoke to John Moe about her year of migraines and agoraphobia on Depresh Mode. It’s the second segment in the episode. (Starts about 39 min in.)

If you’ve made it this far, here’s something to read. I’m porting over older Emily posts to get them all in one archive. Here’s a piece on how to fall asleep better, from riiiight before Covid struck. What was that, seventy years ago?

10 Tips to Fall Asleep (or Back Asleep) • Buttondown

(Originally published January 6, 2020.) Sleep is important. It’s so important, we made an entire podcast episode about it, and that episode is the second...

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