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Can Women Win?
In 2018, in the first midterm elections after Donald Trump won the presidency, the United States experienced a surge in women running for and winning elected office. It wasn’t a fluke. The phenomenon...
View ArticleProtest and Serve
Since Sept. 5, 2023, 61 people in Atlanta have been charged with racketeering for protesting in connection with the Stop Cop City movement. Attorney General Chris Carr of Georgia is using the state’s...
View ArticleThe Ease of Access
I think a lot about access as a fat person with multiple chronic illnesses. Over time, my world has gotten smaller—whether it’s amusement park rides with weight limits or venues lacking elevators....
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Reworking Remote
“I never would have learned about myself if we hadn’t gone remote,” says Margret, a woman in her 30s who works in administration at a large Midwestern university. She asked to use a pseudonym to...
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For the Love of Gaza
When I first arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport on July 24, 1994, I was both scared and torn by guilt. My fears were not merely those of any new immigrant trying to start a new life in...
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Swiss Schools’ Surprising Solution to Bullying
When Ben was 11, his parents noticed his grades had dropped. He stopped talking about school. On Sunday evenings, he often complained about stomachaches and begged his mom to keep him home the next...
View ArticleThe Military’s Myth of Black Freedom
“Black people, we were never patriots; we were pragmatists,” a friend said to me recently when we talked about both of our grandfathers’ years of military service and their reverberating effects in...
View ArticleHow Disabled Voters Are Accessing Democracy
When Kenia Flores was studying for her bachelor’s degree at Furman University in South Carolina and wanted to vote in her hometown election in North Carolina, she needed an absentee ballot. However,...
View ArticleIn Defense of Butch Bodies
Let me start by saying: Watching Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-GA, be eviscerated by Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-TX, brought me a certain kind of Black Feminist Joy that I didn’t know I needed. The...
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What $500 a Month Freed Up for Families
Participants in a guaranteed-income program in Cambridge, Massachusetts, were able to save more money, cover emergencies, and had more time and space for parenting, which in turn positively impacted...
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Justice by and for India’s Women
At 2 p.m. every Wednesday, about 15 to 20 women who form a Mahila Panchayat, or Women’s Council, gather in a modest, dimly lit room in the Jehangirpuri area of the Indian capital city New Delhi, to...
View ArticleThe Complex Reality of the Boy Scouts’ Gay Ban
On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight....
View ArticleHow Black Parents Got Cops Out of Oakland Schools
Four years ago, as a result of more than a decade of organizing led by the Black Organizing Project (BOP), a group of students, parents, teachers, and allies united to achieve a historic win in...
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What Trans Men Found at Camp Lost Boys
In the woods between Denver and Colorado Springs, under the kind of wide-open sky and crystalline air only found near the Rocky Mountains, a project to reshape masculinity was underway. It happened...
View ArticlePlanning Parenthood for Incarcerated Men
With a condom in his back pocket, Cristobal De La Cruz steps into a classroom in the Orange County Juvenile Hall in Southern California, where a group of young men between the ages of 12 and 18 are...
View ArticleReject Ego-nomics, Embrace Eco-nomics
Science has given us a clear warning. By the end of the current decade, humans must reverse the damage we are doing to the Earth or face an almost-certain risk of that damage becoming irreversible....
View ArticleTips for Cultivating Trans Joy
Throughout the long, troubled history of humanity, there have been powerful stories of resistance: Rosa Parks staying at the front of the bus, Jews praying when it was forbidden, people refusing to...
View ArticleLessons From Pitzer’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment
The Gaza solidarity encampments at universities reimagine political movements as communities where we materialize our commitments to a better world. From co-leading Pitzer College’s encampment, I...
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Colorado Prisons Just Got a Little Safer for Trans Women
Taliyah Murphy, a transgender woman living in Colorado Springs, studies accounting and finance. She co-owns two small businesses with her fiancé and eventually wants to start a financial education...
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