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How the Puyallup Tribe Increased Police Accountability in Washington
This month marks four years since Manuel Ellis, a 33-year-old African American man, was killed by Tacoma police. Despite the all-too-familiar injustice of the killing, something happened in the...
View ArticleChronicling the Messy Truth of Cancer
The process of illness that brings us near death is often a process of erasure. We lie between life and death, and most people avert their gaze from us. Most of us in this country also avoid dwelling...
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A Day in the Life of Parents Caring for a Child With Complex Medical Needs
It’s still dark when Claire Hernandez has her first meal of the day. In fact, the 3-year-old is often still sleeping. Her father, John Hernandez, tiptoes into her nursery and, gently, so as not to...
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6 Ways California Can Help Kids With Disabilities Get Care
California has a variety of programs aimed at supporting the health care needs of children with complex disabilities. But accessing and utilizing these programs is complicated and time consuming for...
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Who Is Beating Back Book Bans?
It’s not hard to read between the lines of the recent surge in book bans. These efforts are a manifestation of a confluence of political ideology, latent cultural anxieties over difference, and...
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Murmurations: Flying Into the Spring Equinox
A note from adrienne maree brown: Sham-e-Ali Nayeem is a Muslim poet who has recently released a gorgeous album called Moti Ka Sheher. Sham-e-Ali is also a long-term supporter of arts and emergent...
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YES! Must-Reads: Resist Like a Woman
Woman. It’s such a politicized word. Has its definition ever been fixed? Living in an age where the word “woman” is routinely weaponized in favor of white, cisgender, heterosexual, and male...
View ArticleWe Are All Responsible for Making Bathrooms Safer
For many trans and nonbinary people, bathrooms can be complicated places to navigate—a fact highlighted by the death of 16-year-old Nex Benedict in Oklahoma. Oklahoma is far from an outlier when it...
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The Coffee Shops Countering Recidivism
When people leave prison, they quickly find themselves on trial once again—not in a court of law but rather in the court of public opinion. This court may not be able to put them behind bars, but it...
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Murmurations: Wisdom From Women Changemakers
A note from adrienne maree brown: Shawna Wakefield is passionate about collaborative work and collective thinking, as well as a member of the Fire Ensemble, which was the first choir to perform my...
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Education for Nomadic Families in Nigeria
In 2016, when the terrorist organization Boko Haram seized control of Abadam, a local government area in Borno State, North East Nigeria, Aisha’s family fled, leaving behind their livestock, farmland,...
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More Than a Marble
Lærke’s first word was wing. She lay cradled between the moss and her mama, watching the branches cut the sky in precise patterns. Her poor ma Suzume had fallen asleep after chasing the child around...
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Radically Reimagining Our Future Through Climate Fiction
When we want to know what’s happening in the world, we turn to journalism. When we want to escape from reality, we turn to fiction. But both are forms of storytelling. And both are necessary for the...
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Rewilding a Grieving Heart
April 5, 2022 I got my first glimpse of the place today. Drove out there by myself and knelt in the dirt and ran my hands through the dry clods. Nobody else out there, save a few crows picking over...
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Rooted in the Diaspora
Thursday, February 9, 2023 I’m bundled in a wool overcoat against the 6 a.m. winter chill of Los Angeles. The former New Yorker in me scoffs at how soft I’ve become against the cold—or rather, the...
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The Water Came Early
I knew what the paper said before I read it. They pin the evictions to the house, but the agriculture notices go on the barn. The kid saw it first. I’ve been paying him to mind the irrigation lines...
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For the Good of the Hive
Huaxin always took pride in telling people she met her partner while doing tai chi in the park. Every other young person nowadays found their relationships through AI matchmaking services or VR...
View ArticleEnding Water Apartheid in Palestine
As the Israeli assault on Gaza enters its sixth month, the enclave’s population of about 2 million is struggling to survive with little access to life’s most basic necessity: water. According to...
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Chess Captures Life Lessons for Argentinian Youth
Agustín Teglia, a sociologist by profession, learned to play chess as a child, encouraged by his mother. He recalls having a board in the living room where he played with his brother and cousin. Years...
View ArticleThe Climate Lessons a Typhoon Taught Us
Each November, on the eighth of the month, the sidewalks in Tacloban, Philippines, glow. Since 2013, the people of Tacloban have been kindling rows of candles every year to honor the lives lost to...
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