Food as Embodiment and Connection
Colonization and capitalism have distorted our relationships with food. How do we return to its physical and social sacredness?
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How Corporations Attempt to Co-opt Buddhism
Companies like Amazon and Google present mindfulness as a secular technology for stress relief. But authentic Buddhism cannot be harmed.
Our Right to Heal: Liberatory Harm Reduction
Harm reduction was adopted by public institutions to help stem the spread of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s. But it originated in self-advocacy by drug users, sex workers, and trans activists.
How Parents Can Support Teen Mental Heath
Parents and caregivers are a critical link in addressing the urgent mental health crisis among teens.
Reproductive Justice Includes Access to Safe Drinking Water
Pregnant people across the country lack safe drinking water鈥攕o grassroots organizations are stepping in.
Congress Keeps Falling Short on Protecting Patients
A law supposed to protect patients from hidden charges on medical bills is still riddled with loopholes. Only universal health care will fix it.
Inclusive Public Health Messaging Helps Tackle Infectious Diseases
As the U.S. gets hit with multiple illnesses, public health messaging is critical. Here鈥檚 how to ensure it reaches the communities most impacted.
Murmurations: Grow the Chorus
adrienne maree brown reflects on the lessons they鈥檝e learned authoring this column for the past year, and lays out a path for what鈥檚 to come.
How Imams Can Destigmatize Mental Health Care Among Muslims聽
Post-9/11 Islamophobia has triggered a mental health crisis among Muslims. Now, the shift toward seeking mental health care is happening at Islamic centers and mosques.
How to Navigate Body Shame
Capitalism and White supremacy have given us many reasons to hate our bodies because they teach us to be ashamed of them鈥攁nd to shame others.
Murmurations: A Final Winter Solstice Spell
In their final 鈥淪pell for a Season,鈥� adrienne maree brown explores the beauty and grief that come with a year that felt at once interminable and brief.
Photo Essay: Wheels of Hope
Twice a week, at a German skateboarding hall, young Ukrainian refugees can escape from reality.
8 Books for Insight and Inspiration
大象传媒 staff members recommend reads that provoke thought and prompt action.
Oracle Cards Inspired by the Earth
An ecological card deck offers wise teachings and prompts healing.
Social Change, at the Cellular Level
A new book argues that even small things can help grow the world we want.
It鈥檚 Time to Make Accessibility Our Collective Responsibility
More than 30 years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the burden of enforcement often still falls on disabled people and their families.
Poor Public Policy鈥擭ot Individual Moral Failure鈥擨s What Threatens Public Health
People misuse morality to demonize one another鈥檚 choices and actions, letting policymakers and corporations off the hook.
Murmurations: Accountable Endings
The end of a world built on toxic ideas of supremacy can make way for a better, more collective and connected existence, writes adrienne maree brown.
How to Support Your Mental Health During the Change in Seasons
For some, a lack of light and warmth can have a negative impact on mental wellbeing. Here are some ways to navigate this transition.
Rediscovering the Family Wisdom of Yoga
As a stressed young adult, I reconnected with my family's yoga practices to help with healing and sleep.
Murmurations: Accountable to Our Ancestors
adrienne maree brown ponders how (and whether) we should be accountable to ancestors who held beliefs vastly different from our own.
Reclaiming Abundance Under Capitalism
Is there a way we can be critical of our cultures of consumption, while also preserving the spirit of abundance?
When Mental Health Crisis Responders Reach Rural Residents
Rural communities from Iowa to South Dakota to Colorado are rethinking who they send as first responders to help those in a mental health crisis.
Murmurations: Accountable to Earth
In their September column, adrienne maree brown asks how we can hear beyond the human cry for help.
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