Why Subscribe?
It's 2025, not 44 BC, so we're celebrating femme power, pleasure, joy, style, & silliness. Welcome to The Faunt: the Black Lady digital version of Cicero's How to Grow Old and faunt. Created by & for all the moisturized aunties 50+ & beyond... online.
WTF?! What The Faunt?!
I make sense of the awkward 50s & faunting.
You trust a non-expert to do so.
We navigate this bananas era with fun aunt energy. Why not? We have everything we need ~ purpose, power, charisma, charm, pleasure, silliness, ambition, sparkles, botox, intellect, wealth, SKIMS, anxie-tatas, wisdom, science, woo-woo, resilience, overactive amygdalas, love, desire, defibrillators, style, wit, imagination, curiosity, oxygen & lungs.
What to Expect
A mix of:
🎯 Fashion and wellness for the always-moisturized.
🎯 Coping strategies for our overactive amygdalas.
🎯 Research-backed insights (translated into real talk).
🎯 Beauty & creativity.
🎯 BAE ~ Big Areola Energy.
What are my qualifications?
My name is Ipeleng. It means be proud.
Chutzpah. Black Power baby. Native New Yorker. Resident of Oakland. South African American daughter of exile. Playwright. Essayist. Solo performer. Artist in residence. On-hiatus open-mic comedian. '90s cultural critic. Forever-feminist. Retired party girl. Big sister. Cousin. Friend. Titi. Legacy writer. My amygdala has a Napoleon complex. Grateful to be making money and having fun. Like you, I LOVE nice things.
This is my fauntletter.
Faunts ~ Free Subscribers
🛥️ Bi-weekly posts celebrating femme pleasure, power & silliness for moisturized aunties 50+. Sent straight to your inbox.
Faunts ~ Paid Subscribers
🛥️ Everything FREE plus:
💎 Full access to the newsletter and publication archives.
💎 Live Substack Q&As where I’ll be chatting up cool scientists, artists, entrepreneurs & more about love, fashions, pleasure & hijacked amygdalas in midlife.
💎 VIP access to my memoir-in-progress. One chapter at a time.
💎 First-read privileges with opportunity to share thoughts (like being my on-screen bestie and editor, minus the red pen)
What’s in the Memoir?
📖 The amygdala as a main character.
📖 Humor as survival.
📖 Why the only cure for the moisturized aunties’ crazies is love.
Founding Faunts ~ Founding Subscribers
🛥️ Everything PAID plus:
🪶 Join a community of vetted faunts who crave nice things, high-stakes intensity, witty relief, other people’s messes, and a well-moisturized entourage.
🪶 Complimentary tickets to my play!
🪶 TBD ~ Issa surprise!!
How to Support The Faunt
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Thank you!!
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x🪩i
Sparkles,
The Faunt ~ Ipeleng
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