Why Hope Is Different Than Optimism
Hope is not a positive expectation but a moral commitment.
Health & Happiness
Serious About Gender Exploration? There鈥檚 a Doula for That.
Just like birth doulas, gender doulas support people at all stages of their gender journey.
Beyonc茅鈥檚 Requiem for Black Country Dreams
With 鈥淐owboy Carter,鈥� Beyonc茅 is not only topping the country charts, but also challenging old narratives about genre.
Education for Nomadic Families in Nigeria
Displaced by climate change, Fulani children are getting access to education no one in their communities has had before.
Will SCOTUS Revoke Abortion Pill Access?
Justices appeared skeptical of anti-abortion arguments against Mifepristone. Still, the stakes for reproductive health are extremely high.
Murmurations: Wisdom From Women Changemakers
It鈥檚 more important than ever to commit to collective practices that generate hope, love, care, and community.
We Are All Responsible for Making Bathrooms Safer
Transgender and nonbinary people need more than policies to protect their safe access to bathrooms. They need allies.
猫咪社区! Must-Reads: Resist Like a Woman
For Women鈥檚 History Month, 猫咪社区! is highlighting stories of women change-makers, freedom fighters, and innovators.
Murmurations: Flying Into the Spring Equinox
Like moths emerging from a cocoon, the spring equinox beckons us to embrace our re-imagined selves.
6 Ways California Can Help Kids With Disabilities Get Care
Experts and disability justice advocates say these changes could help more California families with children who have complex medical needs access the care they鈥榬e entitled to.
A Day in the Life of Parents Caring for a Child With Complex Medical Needs
California offers a suite of programs intended to help parents access medically necessary care for their children, but enrollment is complex, time-consuming, and full of bureaucratic red tape.
鈥淐onnections,鈥� From Digital Revolutions to Queer Church
In a discussion about the "complexity of connection," 猫咪社区! Managing Editor Sunnivie Brydum previews the Spring 2024 issue of 猫咪社区! Magazine.
Chronicling the Messy Truth of Cancer
After her cervical cancer diagnosis, Caitlin Breedlove sought connection and stories from other survivors, but found them few and far between.
Murmurations: The Healing Power of Film
Centering healing justice in the filmmaking process offered this creator鈥攁nd everyone involved in the film鈥攁 powerful way to begin to heal core wounds.
Love Your Person (and the Planet) This Valentine鈥檚 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 鈥淭he Conceivable Future鈥� 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?
New Weight Loss Drugs Aren鈥檛 a Magic Pill
Fat liberation activists worked for decades to celebrate size diversity in our society. Will the new class of popular weight-loss drugs undo that progress?
Pro-Choice Catholics Plaster March for Life With Posters
Jamie L. Mason of Catholics for Choice explained why her organization engaged in counter-protest actions at this year's March for Life.
To the American Right, Trump Can Do No Wrong
Right-wing audiences got a deeply distorted view of the verdict against Donald Trump in E. Jean Carroll鈥檚 defamation suit. Media Matters鈥� Courtney Hagle explains why and what to do about it.
Murmurations: Making Space for Intentional Adaptation
Moving at the speed of trust has allowed this cooperative to create new visions of abundance鈥攆ar beyond what white supremacist patriarchal hegemony deemed possible.
Learning to Love What Nourishes My Son
For this California mom, supporting her medically complex son鈥檚 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.
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.
Diaries of the War in Ukraine
In this excerpt, author Nora Krug illustrates her correspondence with two individuals who share their diverging experiences of Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine.
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