How Pop Culture Shapes Reparations
As the movement for reparations gains steam, mainstream and independent content creators continue to find new ways to advance the idea of reparative damages for Black people on screen.
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The (Identity) Politics of Reparations
Can “reparationist” be a distinct identity, akin to feminist or abolitionist, a label worn with pride by progressives who believe in reparative compensation for Black people?
Surprising Solidarity in the Fight for Clean Water and Justice on O’ahu
After a 2021 leak at the U.S. military’s Red Hill fuel storage facility poisoned thousands, activists, Native Hawaiians, and affected military families have become unlikely allies in the fight for accountability.
Love Your Person (and the Planet) This Valentine’s Day
Flowers, chocolates, and jewelry are carbon-intensive ways to show your love. Try these alternatives instead.
Real Climate Solutions Must Include Human Rights
The authors of “The Conceivable Future” argue that we should focus less on whether or not to have babies and more on stopping the extraction and burning of fossil fuels.
The Equal Rights Issue Facing Straight Couples (in Bed)
Data shows that straight, cisgender women are much less likely to have orgasms during sex than their cis male partners. Is it possible to remedy this erotic inequality?
YES! Must-Reads: Black History Now
Explore these stories from the YES! archives to understand why Black history—and Black futures—are essential to building a better world.
Race, Caste, and the Model Minority Myth
White supremacy and caste-based supremacy are two sides of the same coin, Dalit writer Yashica Dutt shows in this excerpt from her new book.
No Pride in Genocide: Calling Out Israel’s Pinkwashing
Israel continues to paint itself as a pro-LGBTQ haven in the Middle East, using this alleged tolerance as justification for its genocide in Gaza. Queer activists around the world are pushing back.
Murmurations: Making Space for Intentional Adaptation
Moving at the speed of trust has allowed this cooperative to create new visions of abundance—far beyond what white supremacist patriarchal hegemony deemed possible.
The Internet Has Always Been Trans
As early adopters—and innovators—of the internet, transgender people carved out enduring, invaluable safe spaces to find community, support, and themselves online.
Global Protests for a Free Palestine: Photo Essay
Voices are echoing worldwide as tens of thousands of people take to the streets to demand an immediate cease-fire and an end to Israel’s war on Gaza.
Don’t Let Zionists Weaponize Jewish Suffering
Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, it’s essential to remember that “never again” means for anyone.
Reporting From the Front Lines of a Genocide
Being a Palestinian journalist has never been easy, but Israel’s escalation of violence against members of the press in Gaza is unprecedented, say press freedom advocates. Can global solidarity help stop the bloodshed?
The Future Is Feral—and Climate Resilient
To produce food in the face of climate change, we may need to learn from so-called weeds.
Writers of Color Are Redefining Nature Writing
A new generation of poets, essayists, memoirists, and novelists is narrating stories of severed connections and exploitation—both their own and the Earth’s.
Learning to Love What Nourishes My Son
For this California mom, supporting her medically complex son’s relationship with food meant relinquishing control and embracing what worked.
Murmurations: Balancing Duality on Winter Solstice
Alexis Pauline Gumbs offers a Winter Solstice spell to help us embrace the darkness and light of this moment.
The Palestine Exception to Campus Free Speech
Writing under a pseudonym to protect herself, a high school student details the intimidation she and her peers have faced from schools for protesting the Gaza genocide.
Murmurations: There Will Be Living, After All
If we do not turn away from our grief, we can use it to craft armor, building a new demographic that will rise from the rubble to dance like dust.
YES! Takes a Break
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Practicing New Worlds with adrienne maree brown and Andrea Ritchie
In this exclusive conversation, two visionary abolitionist authors and reflect on the how the newest book in the Emergent Strategy series came to be.
Welcoming Relatives Home: The Return of the Lynx
On the Colville Reservation, tribal members are restoring wildlife populations—and with them, abundance, resilience, and reciprocity.
Welcoming Relatives Home: A Ceremony for Salmon
The Colville Confederated Tribes are dedicated to “reuniting with old friends” by reintroducing fish to their shared waters and pronghorn to their ancestral lands.
Welcoming Relatives Home: Bringing Back the Bighorn
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation in Washington State are restoring the lands and species of their traditional ecological community.
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