Access Above All
Disabled people know the health care system is hostile. But it doesn’t have to be.
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This Is Gender-Affirming Care
All people deserve access to this necessary medical care.
The Right to Recreation
These community activities are about equality as much as entertainment.
Reclaiming Our Air
While the government has declared the COVID-19 pandemic over, clean air clubs are still working hard to keep people safe.
Library Love
Public libraries help us reimagine collective responsibility.
Unsilencing the Desert
How communities around the world are preserving their endangered music.
Contributors
Alice Wong is a disabled activist, writer, and editor. She’s also the editor of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-First Century. Her memoir, Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s
The Solution Is Access
Dear Reader, As an able-bodied person, it would be easy for me to move through life mostly oblivious to just how difficult this world can be for people with disabilities.
Why I Support YES!
How long have you been a YES! reader and how did you find YES!? I was attracted years ago by the Journal of Positive Futures and the work of Fran
The Complexity of Connection
Technology has offered us more ways to connect than ever before. So why are we so isolated, lonely, and polarized?
Social Media for the Revolution
Has the age of digital organizing come and gone?
We Keep Our Data Safe
Resisting biometric surveillance requires more than opting out.
Connective Liberation
Social media has the power to fuel—or foil—social movements.
Digital Native Storytelling
Sharing our stories online enables us to define who we were, who we are, and who we will be as Indigenous peoples.
Safe (Sacred) Spaces
LGBTQ people are creating queer churches where no one’s identity is a sin.
Eating at the Old Growth Table
We must honor our foods as the wisdom keepers they are.
Friend or FOMO?
Social media demands that we navigate the fine line between connection and envy.
The Weight of the Cloud
Our data has real impacts on the planet and its people.
Tech-quity and Inclusion
Everyone deserves access to the devices, affordable internet, and knowledge to participate in our digital world.
At Home in Exile
The stolen souls aboard the Clotilda slave ship’s final, illegal voyage remained suspended across space and time.
In Memoriam of Black Twitter
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, still exists more than a year after Elon Musk acquired it, but it’s a shell of its former self. Rather than a real-time
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