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Truth and Reckoning
Recognizing the generational harm caused by Native “boarding schools†is just the beginning. True healing must center the Indigenous ways of being that these genocidal institutions tried to extinguish.
The Truth Above All Else
In my faith tradition, there’s a well-worn adage that the truth will set us free. This idiom, expressed from the pulpits and at dinner tables, is an encouragement to uphold
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Safer Sex Work
By embracing harm reduction principles, our culture can collectively empower and protect sex workers.
Standing in the rotunda of the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Brigitte Bandit shows the gown she wore—bearing the names of children killed in recent mass shootings in Uvalde and Allen, Texas—to testify against S.B. 12, which would have criminalized drag performances. In her testimony, she accused Texas GOP lawmakers of “spending more time in this legislative session targeting drag queens than gun violence.â€
Serving Justice
On stage and in the courthouse, these queens prove drag is not a crime.
Untangling the Roots of Wild Foods
For centuries, the gifts of nature have been thoughtfully nurtured according to seasonal rhythms, and foods now deemed “wild†have been cultivated with the same devotion as a cherished garden.
This Is Your Brain on Truth
The more we learn about people, cultures, and environments different from our own, the more empathy we have for the experiences of others—and the more our moral compasses veer toward
Queering Objectivity
LGBTQ journalists manage a mighty breadth of work. We are reporting in our local communities, tracking anti-queer and trans legislation across the United States, championing queer and trans youth, highlighting
False Prophets of Profit
The truth is Black people are overwhelmingly broke. In 2021, nearly 25% of Black families in the United States had either no wealth (what you own minus what you owe)
Monumental Shifts Stonebreakers explores what it means to remove statues that honor historic—and ongoing—injustice in the U.S.
Monumental Shifts
The demands of the racial justice uprisings of 2020 were never solely about policing. Stonebreakers (Awen Films, 2022), a documentary that chronicles the battles over historical memory that emerged during
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Abaki Beck is a writer and public health Ph.D. student. Her work has been featured in Bitch, YES!, TalkPoverty, Health Affairs, and the books Aftermath: Life in Post-Roe America (She

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