Has a fixation with visibility hindered the fight for collective LGBTQ liberation?
“Deep canvassing” offers a model for how anti-racist Americans can practice what they preach and work to promote racial justice narratives.
In Haaland v. Brackeen, the justices affirmed that Native Americans are not a race—they are independent nations.
How one amateur wildlife photographer in India built a team of 150 conservationists.
To mark the summer solstice, Juneteenth, and Pride month, Junauda Petrus offers a spell rooted in the erotics of abolition.
People of color were the most harmed by the war on cannabis, but we can heal the damage of prohibition and ensure a fairer future.
Devon Parfait, 25, knows climate change may wipe out his people's lands, but he’s not willing to lose their culture, too.
When record-setting rain fell in Brazil, responses varied between communities—and so did the number of lives lost.
With climate-fueled hurricanes in their past and future, Puerto Ricans are taking back their power.
Racial profiling is dehumanizing. Here’s what to do if you witness a person of color being targeted.
The author and attorney believes we can overcome by leaning into relations—human and nonhuman alike.
Queer ecology embraces the plurality and paradox of nature, rather than forcing it into the binaries and categories that our society craves.
Data from rural Placer County, California, mirrors a larger national trend that shows fewer teen pregnancies, reduced youth crime rates, and higher educational attainment.
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The LA-based Star Garden Topless Dive Bar just voted in favor of joining the Actors’ Equity Association, making it the first unionized strip club since the now-defunct Lusty Lady in San Francisco and Seattle.
Reading science fiction and fantasy can help young people learn how to cope with stress and anxiety.
There is something medicinal in choosing the kinds of scars that mark us.
To mark Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we asked five AAPI creatives to share where they find themselves most at home—if they do at all.
The caucasity of television shows about the casual cruelty of excess is critically important. Succession didn’t shy away from that, and neither should other shows profiling the rich.
Strong family bonds help transgender people embrace joy even amid legislative attacks and reductive media portrayals.
How the popular and powerful music genre made education in the U.S. more accessible and fun.
When it came to Russia’s unjust detention of WNBA star Brittney Griner, misogynoir made an already difficult situation more dire, writes scholar Moya Bailey.
An Indigenous Indian tribe once embraced voluntary and assisted euthanasia in specific contexts, a cultural practice fundamentally driven by a care for the common good.
The U.S. is finally moving away from fossil fuels, but there aren’t enough electricians to do the job.
The FDA’s latest move represents a seismic shift for gay and bisexual men as well as for the critically low U.S. blood supply.
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