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Confronting Caste
A Dalit American leader offers a profound meditation on the violence of caste apartheid, pathways to abolition, and collective healing.
All the Sexy Older Ladies
From “Hacks” to “Queen Sugar,” pop culture begins spotlighting the sexuality of women over 50.
Shortchanging Harriet
From Doodle to a future $20 bill, Harriet Tubman is a cultural icon. But comforting images don’t show the disabled Black woman who was not only a guide, but a freedom fighter.
YES! Issue Contributors
Gloria Alamrew is an Ethiopian Canadian culture writer and editor. She writes about Blackness, culture, and womanhood, and the myriad ways they intersect. Alamrew has written for distinguished publications such
Readers Respond
The Fall 2022 issue explored a space where many of us spend most of our waking hours: work. The coronavirus pandemic prompted many workers—and businesses—to reassess their relationship to
Holding Ourselves, Together
Dear Reader, For most of my life, my conception of the body was about the individual body—more specifically, my body. I’ve been fortunate to love mine, most of the time.
Why I Give
Katherine Macomber Millman of Port Townsend, Washington What kind of work and/or volunteering do you do? I’ve been doing body-centered healing work since 1986, after focusing for over 10 years
The Work Issue
I am privileged to be able to say that I love the work I do. I find meaning, purpose, and even a sense of identity in my work here at YES! Media. But I also know that, compared to many people in this country, I am in the minority.
The Past, Present, and Future of Work
Our work environment is deeply dysfunctional. But making systemic change requires understanding how we got here.
Undergrads Fight for Their Right to Organize
Long-underpaid undergrad students who work on campus are increasingly seeing the value of their labor and organizing unions.
Can Unions Still Transform the Workplace?
Young workers, women, and people of color are combining digital innovation with old-school face-to-face organizing to build a new labor movement.
The Café That’s Upending Capitalism
Cafe Euphoria isn’t just another co-op. Its trans and gender-nonconforming owners are pursuing a vision of radical equality.
Labor and Climate Form a More Perfect Union
Environmental and labor activists have found success collaborating at the local and state levels. Now they have their eyes on federal policy.
Child Care: Invaluable and Undervalued
Direct payments to home-based child care providers can sustain them and the essential work they do to care for the children of working Americans.
The Job Is Not My Work
Our profit-driven health care system pushes workers to the breaking point. What would it look like to take back our power?
To Transform Work, We Must Rest
Rest is not antithetical to work. We cannot imagine work without it.
The Future of Work Is No Work
Activists have long suggested that oppressive institutions should be abolished rather than reformed. The same could be said about labor.
The Benefits of Berries
Late summer and fall offer a bounty of berries bursting with flavor—and healing potential.
Terra Affirma: The River Reclaims
Landscape endures even when the infrastructure of hubris cannot.
Beyond Decolonization
These activists are working to ensure Indigenous perspectives are included in fields as diverse as education, health care, and scientific research.
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