Moving off Substack

Hello MHW Community. As you may know Substack, the platform we use to send this newsletter has been in the news recently, and not for good reasons. In November, Jonathan Katz wrote in The Atlantic an article called "Substack Has a Nazi Problem” and the leadership at Substack responded on December 21, 2023 in a note from Hamish McKenzie. The response was very soft and didn't really respond to the issues of allowing Nazis on their platform.

One can be judged by the company they keep. While being in your company has been a wonderful experience and I look forward to continuing that, having this newsletter alongside Nazis and other hate speech is untenable.

I want to be clear. At Mental Health and Wellbeing, we support free speech in the public square, and we also hold firmly that there is no valid reason we can think of to allow, and make money from hate speech and terrorist organizations.

We have made the decision to migrate off of Substack. We are evaluating platforms to move to and will be selecting one, and moving, as quickly as possible. For those with premium paid subscriptions, your billing information should migrate seamlessly since any new system we chose will use the same payment provider (Stripe) that Substack uses. We will update you as we move through this transition, but wanted to to be clear and transparent on our plans.

We will be sending out one more newsletter on Friday, after that the next newsletter will be from our new home. Please reach out with any questions. We’re thankful for your support.