Healing From Purity Culture
How can we transform our relationship with pleasure after religious trauma?
Health & Happiness
How American Institutions Are Failing Teenage Girls
And in spite of that, girls are increasingly outcompeting boys and turning into future leaders.
Not What They Expected: Grandparents As Day Care
Expanded federal funding for child care ended Oct. 1, and in many cases, extended families, including grandparents, will shoulder the burden.
Inside the Underground Abortion Pill Network
An intrepid group of women skirt anti-abortion laws via mail-order abortion pills. A new documentary called 鈥淧lan C鈥� tells their story.
Murmurations: Loneliness As Fermentation
Solitude can create something new out of the process of decay.
Eros and the Revolution: Why Activism Needs Pleasure
Punishing ourselves through the deprivation of rest and pleasure won鈥檛 get us free.
Murmurations: at the equinox
Poet Alta Starr invites us to embrace the stillness of the quiet, fleeting moment between seasons as we approach the equinox.
California Offers a Lifeline for Children With Long-Term Health Conditions
California鈥檚 Enhanced Care Management program, offered through Medi-Cal, could help parents who are caring for children with complex physical, behavioral, and social needs.
Men Are in a Loneliness Epidemic. Should Women Care?
Caring is a tricky word for many women, as it brims with gendered expectations of labor, open availability, and mental load.
Are Swimmable Cities a Climate Solution?
Urban waterways have many benefits鈥攂ut they鈥檙e not accessible to all communities.
Making Medicare Drugs Affordable
Medicare can finally use its purchasing power to negotiate lower drug prices鈥攂ut Big Pharma is pushing back.
Surviving Birth
Birth workers are helping Black parents navigate overlapping crises.
The Heavy Weight of Body Image
From a young age, boys are expected to bulk up at the expense of their emotional and mental health.
Murmurations: Black Imagination Can Build a Better World
Black Imagination is an abolitionist tradition that offers us an invitation to act with hope amid times of great transition.
Making Legal Abortion Accessible in India
Rural healthcare workers in India are fighting to overcome stigma and systemic shortcomings to help patients.
Health Rebounds After a Coal Processing Plant Closes in Pittsburgh
Shutting down carbon-spewing facilities can benefit human health as much as planetary health.
Accessing Mental Health Care for Survivors of Violence
Mental health care is critical for survivors, but access often comes with a slew of challenges.
Can Climate Conversations Be a Solution?
Talking about climate change is more important than you may think.
Teaching Parents How to Prevent Teen Relationship Violence
The ReDefine Parenting Program empowers parents, caregivers, and children to speak up when they hear or see abusive behavior.
Murmurations: Experiencing Urban Earth Beauty
A note from adrienne maree brown: Suhaly offers her healing touch to the world through her Moon Mother Apothecary. I always have one of her healing salves on me. She
Farmers Navigate Dual Crises of Climate and Mental Health
Could provisions in the Farm Bill help with the high rates of suicide among U.S. farmers?
Children With Complex Medical Needs Belong at Home
We could do more to allow these children to stay at home, instead of being forced into institutionalized care.
The Power of Sharing Birth Stories
Why childbirth stories are valuable in shaping family transitions.
Can Astrology Be a Tool for Liberation?
Astrology is a map that directs us to deep connections and meaning-making.
Murmurations: Lessons from Pride and Parades
In a world obsessed with the concept of forever, Cherizar Crippen encourages us to recognize the beauty in impermanence.
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