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How a King-Sized Bed Showed Me I was Still Battling Self-Esteem
Trashing everything and starting over cleared my mind and heart so I could truly listen to my own voice, and learn of my true desires.
Meet Three Innovators Shifting the Maternal Health Narrative
Each experiments with telling maternal health stories in her own way, and at least two want to shift the Black maternal health crisis narrative to emphasize Black life, community self-help, and #BlackJoy.
Artist Devan Shimoyama Puts Glitter All Over Toxic Masculinity
His work depicts a complicated relationship some queer men have with masculinity.
Tourmaline Isn’t Just Telling Our Stories — She’s Putting Us in Museums
“We have always been here. We actually started this thing, and you need to educate yourself about that.”
Want to Share Your Personal Abortion Story? Here Are Some Tips
Your story is an undeniable truth and might radically shift how someone who had an abortion reflects on their own experience, the stigma they faced and to help challenge the stereotypes and misinformation others have heard about people who have abortions.
Channeling Audre: Janet Mock Opens Up About Her Memoir, Sex Work, and Being an Icon
Mock breaks the shackles that have marked the “trans memoir” genre. She is no longer offering a 101 master class on trans identity, but encouraging us all to find our unique way of being.
The Word Is ‘Nemesis’: The Fight to Integrate the National Spelling Bee
For talented black spellers in the 1960s, the segregated local spelling bee was the beginning and the end of the long road to Washington, D.C.
Artist at Work: Melissa Madera, Historian and Creator of the Abortion Diary Podcast
Madera’s podcast offers an intimacy and authenticity not often found in public conversations around abortion.
How ‘Roots’ Reverberated in Africa
The epic miniseries, which united black and white Americans in a viewing experience that the late journalist Chuck Stone called both “an electronic orgy of white guilt” and “one of greatest emotional experiences of all time”—set off a chain of reactions in sub-Saharan Africa.