A celebrated storyteller draws on myth and metaphor to direct our gaze away from the screen and toward the wonder of the world.
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“To thrive, we must embrace both our strengths and our vulnerabilities, and give ourselves permission to be human.”
Arguing for the legal standing of nature was greeted as ridiculous in the 1970s. But now the idea is catching on.
It was okay to be gay in the Marine Cooks and Stewards. And in the 1940s, MCS integrated to become one of the most progressive unions in the United States.
The remote woods and mountains—accessed on long, challenging thru-hikes—are places of healing for former soldiers who suffer from the trauma of war.
Much environmental framing misses the point about capitalism and Indigenous sovereignty.
Walls and fences at national borders enforce inequality, racial divides, and climate catastrophe. But most of them began as invisible lines in the sand.
To the statement that prisons provide safety, we should ask, “Safety for whom? And from what?”
A look back at inter-racial solidarity between Black Americans and Asian Americans, from Nobuko Miyamoto in “Not Yo’ Butterfly.”
Sonora Jha was new to America and on her own with a 6-year-old when she was injured in a car accident. But she found a new community willing to help out—with songs, play dates, and kimbap.
The only way to beat a rigged system of body shame is to give ourselves what the system never will: compassion and radical love.
Raising resilient, anti-racist children means having conversations about racial injustice.
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