Centering Queer (Self) Care in the 2024 Election
Leaning into lineages of resilience and care can be a balm for election-related anxiety for LGBTQ people鈥攁nd everyone.
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In Cuba, Afro Hair Honors Identity and Cultural Roots
As a historian and hairstylist, the owner of community salon Rizo Libre wants her services to go far beyond hair.
How Mexico鈥檚 Abortion Activists Care for Each Other鈥攁nd Themselves
As volunteer collectives bring Mexico to the forefront of abortion access, they have also prioritized emotional wellness.
Easing the Toll of Long-Distance Grief
For immigrants navigating loss from afar, support can come from community, new rituals, and better policies.
Can California Kids Get Specialty Care Sooner?
Children are more likely to survive when treated by pediatric specialists than those trained to treat adults; but there鈥檚 a shortage of these specialists in California and nationwide.
Who Gets to Be a Mother?
Making motherhood accessible for all requires moving away from punitive models鈥攊ncluding foster care鈥攖hat criminalize poverty.
Why Hope Is Different Than Optimism
Hope is not a positive expectation but a moral commitment.
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.
Murmurations: Wisdom From Women Changemakers
It鈥檚 more important than ever to commit to collective practices that generate hope, love, care, and community.
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.
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.
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?
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.
In Pursuit of Liberated Mothering
Cross-cultural dialogue, especially among moms of color, can build new narratives that challenge the legacies of white supremacy and foster healing.
Good Fashion Has No Age Limit
For the women featured in Advanced Style, getting dressed up is the beginning of something new.
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