Issue #41: Starting a Substack made no sense...

Why I did it anyways & what it’s been like

By

Aliza Sir

. Edited by

Aja Frost

.  

There were several reasons starting a Substack to write about my life twice a week for the entire internet to read didn’t make sense:

• I had no social media following (and I’m trying to break my addiction)

• I hadn’t written anything since an article in college titled A Broken Promise: The Situation of the Kurds in Mosul, 1917-1925 

• I alread…