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Category: Activism
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A Q&A with Breanne Fahs | There are so many interpersonal and interactive ways that [anti-fatness] plays out. Complements about weight loss, making it clear that thinner is more desirable, parents “worrying” about their kids gaining weight (particularly in terms of securing a partner or making friends or being liked), clothes shopping discourses, restaurant discourses—and…
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A Q&A with Breanne Fahs | I had become distressed about the ratio of voices who were claiming that fat people should simply “love their bodies” compared to those who were talking more honestly about the complex feelings people have about their bodies. In particular, I always think that intrapsychic experiences collide with social and…
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By Andreas Karelas | In 2015 Pope Francis released a papal encyclical—an urgent message addressed to all Catholics—entitled “Laudato Si’ [Praise Be to You]: On Care for Our Common Home.” It caught the attention of people around the world because in it, the pope decried climate change, especially its effects on the poor. It was…
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By Harrison Browne and Rachel Browne | Sunny Bryant is a ten-year-old trans girl who lives with her family in the Houston area. She’s got bright blond, shoulder-length hair and a wide, infectious smile. She enjoys teasing her mom Rebekah and running around with her puppy. When you speak with Sunny, she’s immediately engaged in…
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By Paul Ortiz | I came of age in a society that did not work. It especially did not function adequately for working-class people and our families. Growing up in the shadows of Watergate, the American War in Vietnam and deindustrialization, our elders shared two pieces of wisdom to explain the economic and social chaos…
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By Gloria J. Browne-Marshall | The God I serve does not live at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, run a multinational corporation, or control social media empires. As we bear witness to the schemes and diabolical machinations of this administration, we each shift through stages of grieving our loss, feelings of despair, depression, shock, trepidation and numbness,…
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By Aviva Chomsky | Since President Trump took office on January 20, he’s issued a torrent of executive orders aiming to criminalize, detain, and deport large numbers of immigrants. Close Trump advisor Stephen Miller promised that “Trump will unleash the vast arsenal of federal powers to implement the most spectacular migration crackdown,” and indeed he…
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A Q&A with Jeanne Theoharis and Gayatri Patnaik | When I published the original edition, I did so without being able to see a cache of Rosa Parks’s papers that had been held for years by Guernsey’s auction following a dispute over her estate. In late 2014, Howard Buffett, horrified by a news story about…
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By Christian Coleman | And the New Year’s category is . . . Transformation! As the oligarchs of the free world steer us on a rocky ride toward dire changes we didn’t want, we’ll be focused on changing ourselves for the greater good. What shall we work on? Expanding our minds about what Buddhism is…
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