How Three Young Women of Color Took on Power
Journalist Sonali Kohli鈥檚 new book centers the life and work of three young women of color who refused to let powerful elites shape their lives and communities.
Body Politics
Murmurations: Queering Abolition
鈥滱toms Never Touch鈥� offers a revolutionary premise: The love between trans women is the key to the new world we imagine.
Pride Is Power: How Queer People Are Defeating Anti-LGBTQ Laws
Faced with unprecedented numbers of anti-LGBTQ bills, queer people are taking to the state houses, courts, and communities to prove that love wins.
Going Back Outside for Pride
We can no longer accept Pride events that only make room for one type of queer person鈥攐r that cater primarily to the corporations more invested in rainbow capitalism than collective liberation.
Colorado Prisons Just Got a Little Safer for Trans Women
A groundbreaking legal agreement mandates that Colorado cover gender-affirming health care for incarcerated trans women, and offers them the option to be housed with other women.
Justice by and for India鈥檚 Women
Long harmed by patriarchal, casteist norms within the legal system, women in India are implementing women-centered forms of grassroots justice.
In Defense of Butch Bodies
There鈥檚 power in a viral clapback. But what of the already-marginalized people whose identities again become a public punchline?
How Disabled Voters Are Accessing Democracy
The vast majority of U.S. polling locations are not fully accessible. Disability justice activists are working to change that.
Reworking Remote
Making workplaces more inclusive requires normalizing accommodations like those offered at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Access Above All
Disabled people know the health care system is hostile. But it doesn鈥檛 have to be.
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.
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.
How to Bury Your Abusive Husband and the Laws That Shielded Him
Domestic violence isn鈥檛 funny. But Alexia Casale鈥檚 debut novel finds humor in survivors taking matters into their own hands.
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.
Can Arizona Win Back the Right to an Abortion?
The Arizona Supreme Court reinstated an 1864 abortion ban鈥攚hich is now fueling voter enthusiasm for a November ballot measure seeking to permanently restore abortion rights.
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.
Will SCOTUS Revoke Abortion Pill Access?
Justices appeared skeptical of anti-abortion arguments against Mifepristone. Still, the stakes for reproductive health are extremely high.
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.
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.
Cop City Is a Disability Justice Issue, Too
Disability justice activists are joining grassroots efforts to shut down Atlanta鈥檚 Cop City, the largest police training campus in the U.S.
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?
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