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Murmurations: Breaking Is Part of Healing
Talking about endings can be scary, but they are necessary if we are to create something better together, writes adrienne maree brown.
Would You Drink Beer Made From Wastewater?
Repurposing water (with treatment, of course) is a safe way to help communities build water resilience in the face of growth and climate change.
The Work of Radical Frugality
Frugality isn鈥檛 just a virtue practiced by bygone generations. It can also be a break with an all-consuming capitalist system.
To Transform Work, Start With Schools
Centering schools around the well-being of our students (and their teachers) is the most straightforward path to positive change in the workplace.
Why Is America Obsessed With Racial Trauma?
People of color are pigeonholed almost exclusively into constrained narratives of trauma and rejection, our anguish commodified for consumption. It鈥檚 time to change this.
Taking Action on Climate Change Requires Coming Together
Climate action, racial justice, and economic reform ultimately all have the same end goal. Our movements should unite behind it.
The Pope鈥檚 Non-Apology to Indigenous Canadians Furthers a History of Abuse
Listening to survivors share their stories of horror does not absolve the Catholic Church of wrongdoings or release it from further accountability.
How the Korean Concept of 鈥淗an鈥� Teaches Solidarity
It is high time for the U.S. to do some serious soul-searching. Communion and fellowship are what will get us through.
Dobbs Is About More Than Abortion. It鈥檚 an Attack on Us All
The Supreme Court鈥檚 decision validates a half-century-old strategy by Christian nationalists to remake the very fabric of this nation.
How to Decolonize Mental Health Treatment for BIPOC
Therapy can be very helpful, but we have to remember that therapy is not the standard nor the only place to find healing and safety.
Murmurations: Love Looks Like Accountability
Being accountable to ourselves and in our relationships with others helps to create a broader culture of accountability, writes adrienne maree brown.
Planting for the Planet
鈥淢inimum Viable Planet鈥� is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, ecological architecture and depaving as climate justice.
The Political Power of Pro-Choice Protests
In the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, protests remind the Left how political change happens.
The Danger of Normalizing Trump鈥檚 Enablers
Testifying against Trump in the Jan. 6 Committee hearings should not absolve his enablers of the harm they helped him inflict.
Putting the Commune in Community
鈥淢inimum Viable Planet鈥� is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, community fundraising and climate.
The Supreme Court鈥檚 Crisis of Legitimacy
The Supreme Court has demonstrated that the highest law of the land is whatever they feel like saying it is. What do we do when the court and other institutions are widely seen as illegitimate?
For Indigenous Peoples, Abortion Is a Religious Right
The overturning of Roe v. Wade is part of a long legacy of American Christian values being forced on Indigenous communities.
Murmurations: Returning to the Whole
To heal ourselves, we must remember that we are a small part of a much greater whole, writes adrienne maree brown in their June column.
Making Sense of Our Post-Roe World
Knowing this day would come doesn鈥檛 make the reality any easier to process. But as trite as this may sound so soon after such a devastating loss, the fight is far from over.
We Need Racial Solidarity to Restore Abortion Rights
The politics of abortion revolve around White supremacy and the role it plays in trying to manage the reproduction of different racialized populations. We need to unite in order to fight back.
How to Process Our Collective Grief
During a time of relentless violence and mass shootings, it is important to understand how grief impacts us all.
Building Community for the Climate Movement
鈥淢inimum Viable Planet鈥� is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, joining, organizing, and building a climate community.
Murmurations: A Summer Solstice Spell
With longer days comes more joy, but also more risk, adrienne maree brown reminds us on the summer solstice.
From Juneteenth to Reparations: Reclaiming Our Stolen Stories
In order to achieve full reparations, we need to reconstruct media systems built on violence, specifically anti-Black violence.
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