Fall 2024

Table of Contents

Truth

From the Editors

The Truth Above All Else

In my faith tradition, there’s a well-worn adage that the truth will set us free. This idiom, expressed from the pulpits and at dinner tables, is an encouragement to uphold the truth—about ourselves and the world around us—above all else. 

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Truth and Reckoning

Recognizing the generational harm caused by Native “boarding schools” is just the beginning. True healing must center the Indigenous ways of being that these genocidal institutions tried to extinguish.
Abaki Beck
A graphic illustration of bright red, yellow, black, and ochre yellow of round blobs and women's faces.

Safer Sex Work

By embracing harm reduction principles, our culture can collectively empower and protect sex workers.
Justice Rivera
Standing in the rotunda of the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Brigitte Bandit shows the gown she wore—bearing the names of children killed in recent mass shootings in Uvalde and Allen, Texas—to testify against S.B. 12, which would have criminalized drag performances. In her testimony, she accused Texas GOP lawmakers of “spending more time in this legislative session targeting drag queens than gun violence.”

Serving Justice

On stage and in the courthouse, these queens prove drag is not a crime.
Nico Lang

Voices Beyond Votes

Citizens in Puerto Rico and other colonized U.S. territories can’t vote, but they are still active participants in democracy.
Laura M. Quintero & Camille Padilla Dalmau

Survivors at the Center

Advocates are on a quest to build a survivor-centric society that frees us all from violence.
Julia Luz Betancourt

Solutions We Love

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Culture Shift

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Queering Objectivity

Identity is not an impediment to good journalism.
Sara Youngblood Gregory

False Prophets of Profit

Celebrity financial advice often overlooks systemic barriers that impact Black communities.
Erika Brown
Monumental Shifts Stonebreakers explores what it means to remove statues that honor historic—and ongoing—injustice in the U.S.
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Monumental Shifts

Stonebreakers explores what it means to remove statues that honor historic—and ongoing—injustice in the U.S.
James Tracy