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Global Protests for a Free Palestine: Photo Essay
It’s been more than 100 days since Israel declared war and began bombing Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. In that time, the Israeli military has killed more than 25,000 Gazans, according to the Gaza Ministry of...
View ArticleThe Internet Has Always Been Trans
When I was in high school in the late ’90s, my father borrowed my laptop—a gift from a family friend—while the browser was open to susans.org, a peer support website founded by Susan Larson in 1995...
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Murmurations: Making Space for Intentional Adaptation
A note from adrienne maree brown: Ebony Ross (one of the co-authors of this piece) is at the Conflict Transformation Fund, working hard to ensure that resources are centered in Black, Indigenous and...
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No Pride in Genocide: Calling Out Israel’s Pinkwashing
Gaza is in crisis. Since Oct. 7, 2023, more than 27,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli military operations—that’s about one in every 100 people in Gaza, according to CNN. Near-constant...
View ArticleRace, Caste, and the Model Minority Myth
If the construction of the “model minority” myth for Indian Americans rides on the back of their alleged casteless-ness, then their anti-Blackness, or at least a deliberate effort to separate...
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YES! Must-Reads: Black History Now
History is typically associated with the past. But history, in its simplest terms, is the study of change over time. Black History Month—an annual occurrence that some also call “Black Futures...
View ArticleThe Equal Rights Issue Facing Straight Couples (in Bed)
Folk history tells us that an equal-rights issue was at the heart of one of the origin stories of Valentine’s Day. In the third century, Saint Valentine defied the Roman authorities and officiated...
View ArticleReal Climate Solutions Must Include Human Rights
There are so many ways that the climate crisis is making it riskier, more toxic, and less equitable for people planning families. It’s surprising, then, that these findings haven’t been at the heart...
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Surprising Solidarity in the Fight for Clean Water and Justice on O’ahu
In late November 2021, in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, 19,000 gallons of jet fuel leaked from the U.S. Navy’s underground fuel tanks at Red Hill into one of the island’s main drinking water aquifers. It...
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The (Identity) Politics of Reparations
The term “reparationist” currently lacks an official dictionary definition, but as the global movement for reparations gains momentum, this may soon change, offering remedies for the enduring harms of...
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Realizing Reparations
One of the most concrete solutions to righting the wrongs of racial harm in the United States—slavery, Jim Crow segregation, and ongoing systemic racism—is reparations for Black Americans. While...
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How Pop Culture Shapes Reparations
Reparations—concrete compensation to Black Americans for historical and current racial harm—are becoming a topic of discussion in our culture, and even the focus of policy guidelines. But they haven’t...
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Spaces As Reparations for Black Youth
The issue of providing reparations to the descendants of enslaved Africans has become a deeply divisive topic. Sparked in part by the high-profile deliberations of California’s Reparations Task Force,...
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Murmurations: The Healing Power of Film
A note from adrienne maree brown: Joie Lou Shakur is a Caribbean trans filmmaker who is bringing their community with them through Comfrey Films, which trains, produces, and develops filmmakers. It...
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Beyond 40 Acres and a Mule
Residents of Evanston, Illinois, filed into the Evanston Township High School Auditorium for the reparations committee’s regular meeting on Jan. 11, 2024. People braved the cold winter weather to wait...
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Will California Do Reparations Right?
In his 2020 book, Begin Again, Eddie Glaude Jr.’s meditation on the modern relevance of the writer James Baldwin, Glaude describes how Baldwin returned to the United States from Paris in 1957 to...
View ArticleRebuilding Tulsa With or Without Reparations
The Historic Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has catapulted to international fame in recent years as more people have become aware of events that took place in 1921, when a white mob, motivated...
View ArticleConnect for Change
Dear Reader, I love every YES! issue, but this one is special. It addresses what I’ve come to believe is the overarching challenge (and opportunity) of our time. For more than 25 years, YES! has...
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Contributors
Reina Sultan is a Lebanese American Muslim journalist and one of the co-creators of 8 to Abolition. She is a prison industrial complex abolitionist and anarchafeminist, working to disrupt systems of...
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