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Cultivating Dragon Fruit’s Political Power in Ecuador

Amid ongoing colonization, the Indigenous Shuar people are taking back control of their economic and political futures.

Sebastian Vacas-Oleas | Jul 16, 2024

Gender justice | Sports

Women on Deck: Skateboarding’s Untold Gender-Inclusive History

As skateboarding becomes an Olympic event, “Drop In” chronicles the women, nonbinary, and queer skaters who have made the sport more equitable.

Deborah Stoll | Jul 16, 2024

Cooperatives | Co-ops

Meet the Mercaditas Fighting for Fairness in Mexico

Street selling is a risky activity in Mexico City. But the mercaditas movement aims to empower women and nonbinary sellers to protect themselves from economic exploitation.

Monica Pelliccia, Alice Pistolesi | Jul 15, 2024

Druze Women Balance Sexual Health, Pleasure, and Tradition

Sex education is often taboo in close-knit Druze communities, but a new generation is creating its own care networks.

Alia Chebbab | Jul 12, 2024

Affordable housing

Green Cities Are for People, Not Profit

Across the country, activists are battling gentrification and working to build sustainable cities that don’t displace working-class communities of color.

Alexia Leclercq | Jul 11, 2024

Climate | Women | Reproductive rights | Gender justice | Water

Rejecting Shame to Reclaim the Power of the Period

Advocates are working to overcome patriarchal structures worldwide that deny menstruating people dignity, access, and agency.

Veronika Perková | Jul 10, 2024

Activism

In Atlanta, Police Violence Ties Together Protests for Gaza, Stop Cop City

Police intervention at the student encampment for Gaza at Atlanta’s Emory University was faster and more violent than most. Protestors expected and were prepared for it, thanks to the ongoing movement to stop police militarization.

Kamau Franklin, Oren Panovka | Jul 9, 2024

Climate

A Cross-State Movement to Hold Railroads Accountable

Facing the ongoing impacts of pollution and derailments, activists in East Palestine, Ohio, and Baltimore are teaming up to pursue justice for their communities.

Nicole Fabricant | Jul 8, 2024

Women | Food Justice

Ending Malnutrition Takes More Than Just Food

In rural Argentina, Hacienda Camino offers parents a suite of skills and resources to help raise healthy children.

David Flier | Jul 5, 2024

Mental health

The Fourth Pillar of Health: Nature Time

In this excerpt, author Misty Pratt explores emerging research—and her own experience—that suggests remedies like park prescriptions may be as key to mental and physical health as diet, exercise, and sleep.

Misty Pratt | Jul 3, 2024

Mental health

The Revolutionary Power of Grieving in Public

Collective grief is a powerful tool that has historically fueled social justice organizing—and healing.

Yolande Clark-Jackson | Jul 2, 2024

Climate

As Summer Swelters, Can Workers Get Heat Protections?

As temperatures continue to rise, California workers, worker protection groups, and state regulators are making progress on implementing heat regulations.

s.e. smith | Jul 1, 2024

LGBTQ+

Nature Welcomes Queer People When Society Doesn’t

For the city’s LGBTQ community, Toronto’s outdoor spaces have been sites of both liberation and violence

KC Hoard | Jun 28, 2024

Food

Little Gaza’s Kitchen Brings a Taste of Home to Displaced Palestinians

Palestinian refugees are settling in the Philippines, and bringing their cultural foods with them.

Gabes Torres | Jun 27, 2024

Murmurations | Books | Gender justice | LGBTQ+

Murmurations: Queering Abolition

”Atoms Never Touch“ offers a revolutionary premise: The love between trans women is the key to the new world we imagine.

micha cárdenas | Jun 25, 2024

LGBTQ+ | Books | Education

Trans Youth Are Teaching Schools How to Actually Support Them

The education system is failing transgender youth, but one school in Canada is striving to create a new support model.

LJ Slovin | Jun 25, 2024

Activism | LGBTQ+ | LGBTQ Rights

Pride Is Power: How Queer People Are Defeating Anti-LGBTQ Laws

Faced with unprecedented numbers of anti-LGBTQ bills, queer people are taking to the state houses, courts, and communities to prove that love wins.

Sara Youngblood Gregory | Jun 24, 2024

LGBTQ+ | Television

Back When TV Was Gay

Despite political repression in the 1980s and 1990s, LGBTQ people enjoyed surprising freedom on public access television networks.

Lauren Herold | Jun 21, 2024

Murmurations

Murmurations: Donde Nacen Los Días

La poeta Julie Quiroz ofrece un hechizo de solsticio de verano que celebra la nacimiento de la luz.

Julie Quiroz | Jun 20, 2024

Murmurations

Murmurations: Where Days Are Born

Poet Julie Quiroz offers a summer solstice spell that celebrates the story of light.

Julie Quiroz | Jun 20, 2024

Abolition | Criminal justice reform | Activism | Local economies

Can Elections Still Help Defund Police?

Efforts to invest in “care, not cops” continue in advance of the 2024 election—albeit at a slower pace than in 2020.

Marianne Dhenin | Jun 20, 2024

Film

A New Hollywood “Origin” Story

With her latest film, Ava DuVernay is modeling a new way of financing impactful films and ensuring creative freedom.

Vanessa Willoughby | Jun 19, 2024

LGBTQ+ | Gender justice | Mental health

Going Back Outside for Pride

We can no longer accept Pride events that only make room for one type of queer person—or that cater primarily to the corporations more invested in rainbow capitalism than collective liberation.

Jenn M. Jackson | Jun 18, 2024

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