Rejecting Shame to Reclaim the Power of the Period
When Radha Paudel was 7 years old, she started noticing something strange: Every few weeks, her mother had separate plates to eat off, separate clothes to wear, and a separate place to sleep. She...
View ArticleGreen Cities Are for People, Not Profit
In the push to create dense, walkable, green cities, upzoning policies—when devoid of affordability—are forcibly displacing communities of color. This practice is happening all over the United States,...
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Druze Women Balance Sexual Health, Pleasure, and Tradition
Sex education is still a widely controversial topic: While some people believe it’s essential to teach young people about sex and sexuality in schools, others argue that it’s inappropriate and should...
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Meet the Mercaditas Fighting for Fairness in Mexico
In a garden in the Metropolitan Autonomous University at Iztapalapa (UAM), one of Mexico City’s universities, Fernanda Meneses sells crochet sunflowers and tulips. A few steps away, Teresa Bernal...
View ArticleWomen on Deck: Skateboarding’s Untold Gender-Inclusive History
History, it is said, is written by the victors. And so it is that the male-dominated history of skateboarding has been written by men, is about men, and celebrates men, with a few delightful women...
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Cultivating Dragon Fruit’s Political Power in Ecuador
“This is a magnificent fruit, but is difficult to care for,” says Juan Chamik as he stands on a hill on his land, looking over the rainforest. As he speaks, the smell of moist foliage rises with the...
View ArticleWhere Communal Art Is Resistance
For millennia, Indigenous cultures have prioritized joy-based artistic practices—and science is finally catching up. Studies now show that art and joy go hand in hand; creative expression passed down...
View Article“Parable of the Sower” Is Now, Says Gen Z
Imminent drought, rising sea waters, destructive borders, a vanishing middle class, “smart drugs,” Big Pharma, privatized public schools and cities, and a governing body with the slogan “Make America...
View ArticlePolitical Violence Is Not Violence Against Politicians
Prior to the shooting at Donald Trump’s rally earlier this week, NDN Collective—an Indigenous power-building organization—prepared to attend the Republican National Convention (RNC) and related...
View ArticleAI Can’t Fix Our Broken Health Care System, But People Can
I spent a recent afternoon querying three major chatbots—Google Gemini, Meta Llama 3, and ChatGPT—on some medical questions that I already knew the answers to. I wanted to test the kind of information...
View ArticleThe Movement to Ban Plastic Production
Flames shoot out across an area bigger than a football field, and the glare can be seen in the sky for miles. The sound is like hundreds of thousands of gas burners in concert, and a terrible smell...
View ArticleCourage By Any Other Name
I watched the first presidential debate of the 2024 election on June 27. Let me rephrase: I, along with so many other concerned people in the United States and around the globe, witnessed two elderly,...
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Rooting for Black Land Ownership
I do my best meditating when floating in water. Maybe it’s the way floating requires you to trust nature and your body to do what they do best. Surrendering to your own buoyancy with the water muting...
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Meet the Couples Upending India’s Caste-Based Marriages
While the world’s eyes are on Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s son’s wedding, a section of Indian society is breaking age-old marriage traditions. On a pleasant sunny day in January 2024, around 200...
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Why Protest Works—Even When It’s Unpopular
This spring, student encampments protesting Israel’s war on Gaza spread across colleges throughout the United States, resulting in campus lockdowns, occupied administrative buildings, canceled...
View ArticleWhat’s in a Name? For Abortion Providers, Quite a Bit.
Not long after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Hanz Dismer, who identifies as nonbinary, discovered they were pregnant. Dismer, who currently works as director of psychosocial services at...
View ArticleThe Complexity of Harris’ Historic Candidacy
In a single weekend, Americans went from expecting a presidential race between two elderly straight white men to an election between two people of demographic polar opposites. Vice President Kamala...
View ArticleMurmurations: From Rupture to Repair
A note from adrienne maree brown: Briana Herman-Brand is a somatic practitioner and facilitator who is helping us learn how white folks become a part of racial and social justice work without...
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The Communal Kitchens Fighting Famine in Sudan
Communal kitchens assist hundreds of thousands in Sudan’s embattled capital, Khartoum. They provide regular meals and social and emotional support amid a deepening famine that international aid groups...
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Nurturing Seeds of Freedom in Palestine
Surrounded by a 26-foot-high separation wall, barbed wire, and a watchtower, a group of young Palestinians prepares a 3.5-acre piece of land for the growing season in spring. The noise of their hoes...
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