Tenderly’s favorite stories of 2019

Hello friends of Tenderly!

It’s almost 2020, which means we can stop calling the decade we’re in weird stuff like “the aughts” and instead call it a proper decade name: the 20s! Hopefully along with that name will come a resurgence in beaded gowns, but not in feathered accessories.

As we draw close to the end of 2019 (Tenderly’s birth year!), I’ve been reflecting on what we’ve published this year. In the last six months, we’ve published 407 posts by over 150 writers, hundreds of photos of food and animals (never the twain shall meet here on Tenderly), thousands and thousands of words. As of a couple days ago, 10,000 of you are Tenderly subscribers on Medium and we are so grateful! In the coming year, we have plans to roll out updated submission guidelines and a renewed focus on the topics that our readers have told us they care about the most: cooking and eating delicious food, the relationships between humans and animals, and Tenderly’s take on books, movies, politics, and global culture — all through the lens of veganism and animal rights. If you have a unique story to tell or an idea for something Tenderly should be covering or a request for a recipe you’re dying to see “veganized,” email me — summer@tenderlymag.com!

Of those hundreds of posts, I have rounded up a few favorites to say see-ya-later to 2019 and hello to 2020. As we plan for the new year, these are the stories I’m still thinking about and the ideas we want to keep exploring in the months to come. I could have made this email 407…