Access to Past Tribal Constitutions Can Help Tribes Shape Their Futures
The Cherokee Constitution of 1827 is printed in two tight columns: English on the left and Cherokee on the right, the intricate letters in neat, even lines. It is the product of the first Cherokee...
View ArticleCommunal Care in Action
Part 1: Casa de Tami: Shevone By Tamela Gordon “I’m telling you right now, Tamela! Make me take another step, and I’ma punch you in your fuckin’ gut!” Shevone Torres and I were on her second day at...
View ArticleGoing Back Outside for Pride
My first panic attack this Pride month happened at the front desk of an Embassy Suites. My booking had disappeared from every app, and, after calling my partner to confirm that I truly had no hotel...
View ArticleA New Hollywood “Origin” Story
Ava DuVernay’s directorial work often shines a light on the darkest chapters of history in the United States. In the 2014 biopic Selma, DuVernay depicts Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s campaign to secure...
View ArticleCan Elections Still Help Defund Police?
The movement to shift funding away from policing and prisons and into social services and public safety programs gained significant traction four years ago during the George Floyd protests. Led by...
View ArticleMurmurations: Where Days Are Born
A note from adrienne maree brown: Julie Quiroz has one foot in movement systems work and the other in the birth ecosystem, supporting birth workers, all wrapped in poems about the moon and her beloved...
View ArticleMurmurations: Donde Nacen Los Días
Una nota de adrienne maree brown: Julie Quiroz tiene un pie en el trabajo de sistemas de movimiento y el otro en el trabajo de nacimiento, todo envuelto en poemas sobre la luna y su amada hija. Read...
View ArticleBack When TV Was Gay
“Hello to all you lovely lesbians out there! My name is Debbie, and I’m here to show you a few things about taking care of your vaginal health.” So opens the first “Lesbian Health” segment on Dyke TV,...
View ArticlePride Is Power: How Queer People Are Defeating Anti-LGBTQ Laws
We’re living in a historic moment of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and political mobilization. In the urgency of the times—and the seemingly endless spiral of headlines—it can be easy to lose sight of exactly...
View ArticleTrans Youth Are Teaching Schools How to Actually Support Them
It was January at East City High, and rehearsals for the Senior Theater Company’s main stage production had just started ramping up. When I got to the auditorium for class, I headed to the steep,...
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Murmurations: Queering Abolition
A note from adrienne maree brown: micha cárdenas is an inventor and artist, and a thrilling new transfemme Latinx writer. Her book on transness as portal to alternate universes (excerpted below) is...
View ArticleTech Must Embrace Racial Justice in the Wake of Affirmative Action
On June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court gutted affirmative action. Now, nearly one year later, we see how rolling back affirmative action has massively impacted diversity in higher education. We’re...
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Little Gaza’s Kitchen Brings a Taste of Home to Displaced Palestinians
During the golden hour in Quezon City, Philippines, a special Palestinian food pop-up event wraps up. The event, led by Little Gaza, a community of Palestinian and Palestinian-Filipino refugees who...
View ArticleNature Welcomes Queer People When Society Doesn’t
Tucked in a hidden corner on Toronto’s south shore lies Cherry Beach. It’s known for its seclusion. To lay on its hot sands or test its warm waters, you have to escape down a long, bottlenecked...
View ArticleAs Summer Swelters, Can Workers Get Heat Protections?
Summer in California is here in the Inland Empire, a Southern stretch of the state that’s become a hub of warehousing, packaging, and shipping. Outside the hulking warehouses that line the area’s...
View ArticleThe Revolutionary Power of Grieving in Public
Everyone is grieving. We may not always know what someone is grieving, or at what stage of the grieving process they are in, but they are grieving, and so are we. We are all grieving—something. Our...
View ArticleThe Fourth Pillar of Health: Nature Time
The wind is light today, taking a lazy brush over the teal surface of the lake. I step one foot into the water, then the other foot, bracing myself for impact. I put my arms over my head and dive,...
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Ending Malnutrition Takes More Than Just Food
A weary rhythm marks the passing hours among the humble dwellings on the dirt streets in Herrera, a town of about 2,000 people 150 kilometers (93 miles) from the Argentinian province’s capital of...
View ArticleA Cross-State Movement to Hold Railroads Accountable
On an unusually warm spring day in March 2024, a group of Baltimore-based environmental justice movement activists traveled to East Palestine, Ohio. During our journey, we passed crystal green fields,...
View ArticleIn Atlanta, Police Violence Ties Together Protests for Gaza, Stop Cop City
Emory University students and others gathered to pitch tents at 7:30 a.m. on April 25. Within minutes, university police arrived on the quad, but the students were undeterred. One tent, then two...
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