Amid ongoing colonization, the Indigenous Shuar people are taking back control of their economic and political futures.
As skateboarding becomes an Olympic event, 鈥淒rop In鈥� chronicles the women, nonbinary, and queer skaters who have made the sport more equitable.
Street selling is a risky activity in Mexico City. But the mercaditas movement aims to empower women and nonbinary sellers to protect themselves from economic exploitation.
Sex education is often taboo in close-knit Druze communities, but a new generation is creating its own care networks.
Across the country, activists are battling gentrification and working to build sustainable cities that don鈥檛 displace working-class communities of color.
Advocates are working to overcome patriarchal structures worldwide that deny menstruating people dignity, access, and agency.
Police intervention at the student encampment for Gaza at Atlanta鈥檚 Emory University was faster and more violent than most. Protestors expected and were prepared for it, thanks to the ongoing movement to stop police militarization.
Facing the ongoing impacts of pollution and derailments, activists in East Palestine, Ohio, and Baltimore are teaming up to pursue justice for their communities.
In rural Argentina, Hacienda Camino offers parents a suite of skills and resources to help raise healthy children.
In this excerpt, author Misty Pratt explores emerging research鈥攁nd her own experience鈥攖hat suggests remedies like park prescriptions may be as key to mental and physical health as diet, exercise, and sleep.
Collective grief is a powerful tool that has historically fueled social justice organizing鈥攁nd healing.
As temperatures continue to rise, California workers, worker protection groups, and state regulators are making progress on implementing heat regulations.
For the city鈥檚 LGBTQ community, Toronto鈥檚 outdoor spaces have been sites of both liberation and violence
Palestinian refugees are settling in the Philippines, and bringing their cultural foods with them.
Tech companies can help offset the loss of affirmative action by proactively investing in Black and Latinx students.
鈥滱toms Never Touch鈥� offers a revolutionary premise: The love between trans women is the key to the new world we imagine.
The education system is failing transgender youth, but one school in Canada is striving to create a new support model.
Faced with unprecedented numbers of anti-LGBTQ bills, queer people are taking to the state houses, courts, and communities to prove that love wins.
Despite political repression in the 1980s and 1990s, LGBTQ people enjoyed surprising freedom on public access television networks.
La poeta Julie Quiroz ofrece un hechizo de solsticio de verano que celebra la nacimiento de la luz.
Poet Julie Quiroz offers a summer solstice spell that celebrates the story of light.
Efforts to invest in 鈥渃are, not cops鈥� continue in advance of the 2024 election鈥攁lbeit at a slower pace than in 2020.
With her latest film, Ava DuVernay is modeling a new way of financing impactful films and ensuring creative freedom.
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.
Tamela Gordon鈥檚 new book, Hood Wellness, shows what it looks like to hold others鈥攁nd be held鈥攊n community.
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