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A Young Chief Helps His Tribe Navigate the Climate Crisis
Devon Parfait, 25, knows climate change may wipe out his people's lands, but he鈥檚 not willing to lose their culture, too.
So, You Think You鈥檙e a Good Ally?
Racial profiling is dehumanizing. Here鈥檚 what to do if you witness a person of color being targeted.
Julian Aguon Seeks Climate Justice Through Storytelling and the Law
The author and attorney believes we can overcome by leaning into relations鈥攈uman and nonhuman alike.
Climate Solutions Need Queerness
Queer ecology embraces the plurality and paradox of nature, rather than forcing it into the binaries and categories that our society craves.
Thirsting for Justice: A Preview of 大象传媒鈥檚 Summer Issue
Thirst, as defined by basic individual and community needs, shapes the latest issue of 大象传媒 Magazine.
Strippers Join Servers and Baristas in New Labor Movement
The LA-based Star Garden Topless Dive Bar just voted in favor of joining the Actors鈥� Equity Association, making it the first unionized strip club since the now-defunct Lusty Lady in San Francisco and Seattle.
How Should Scientists Speak During a Crisis?
How scientists communicate in a crisis鈥攁nd how the public receives that information鈥攃an be a matter of life and death, Christopher Reddy tells Sonali Kolhatkar on 鈥漅ising Up with Sonali.鈥�
Home Is Where the Art Is
To mark Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we asked five AAPI creatives to share where they find themselves most at home鈥攊f they do at all.
Hollywood Finally Starts Skewering White Wealth
The caucasity of television shows about the casual cruelty of excess is critically important. Succession didn鈥檛 shy away from that, and neither should other shows profiling the rich.
The Trans Joy Missing From Media Coverage and Legislation
Strong family bonds help transgender people embrace joy even amid legislative attacks and reductive media portrayals.
50 Years Later, Hip-Hop Still Impacts U.S. Education
How the popular and powerful music genre made education in the U.S. more accessible and fun.
Murmurations: Collective Action to End Misogynoir
When it came to Russia鈥檚 unjust detention of WNBA star Brittney Griner, misogynoir made an already difficult situation more dire, writes scholar Moya Bailey.
Embracing Death as Community Care
An Indigenous Indian tribe once embraced voluntary and assisted euthanasia in specific contexts, a cultural practice fundamentally driven by a care for the common good.
Justice at the Tap
For Jackson, Flint, and the Navajo Nation, clean water shouldn鈥檛 be a pipe dream.
We Keep Us Safe: Imagining a Police-Free World
Communities with infrastructure to support the development of whole, healthy people won鈥檛 need police.
Desaparecidos
Demanding answers for Mexico鈥檚 disappeared.
The Yearning for Redemption
Re-entering society after being incarcerated takes a heavy emotional toll.
Revamped
What the evolution of vampire fiction tells us about modern society.
Patriarchy Princesses
Against a backdrop of increasing repression and gender-based violence, 鈥渇emininity influencers鈥� offer what could be seen as comfort in a destabilizing time.
Will California Realize Reparations to Its Black Residents?
The California Reparations Task Force is readying its final report, which includes suggested financial compensation, to send to the state legislature for debate and approval.
California Runs the Numbers on Reparations
A task force calculated how much Black residents should receive for systemic, state-sanctioned discrimination and ongoing harm.
Freeing Black Mothers From Jail
A campaign to free Black mothers from pretrial detention highlights the role that women play in helping one another navigate a dehumanizing system.
The Matriarchs Who Helped Seattle鈥檚 Urban Native Population
鈥淗elping fellow Native people became the most powerful medicine the service league dispensed for healing a generation of wounded spirits.鈥�
Finding Freedom in Black Motherhood
鈥淚 know I鈥檓 the best mother when I start from the inside out.鈥�
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