A Brief Analysis of Letting Go
As a collective, how do we say goodbye to the structures and traditions that no longer serve, protect, and preserve us?
Thanksgiving
A Multi-Cultural Perspective on Gratitude
Learning from other languages and cultures of gratitude, perhaps Americans can make “thank you” less casual and more heartfelt.
In ‘Gather,’ Indigenous Food Sovereignty Is on the Menu
A new film follows food activists seeking to restore salmon, buffalo, and the nourishing legacy of Native cultures.
If You Must Gather This Holiday Season, Consider These Precautions
An epidemiologist shares her family’s plan for safer holiday gatherings during the pandemic.
5 Tips for Surviving the Holidays With an Eating Disorder
For years, when I would go home for Christmas, I would have the exact same conversation with my grandmother. “Have you lost weight?” she would ask, jubilantly. I almost never
Healing From Colonization on Thanksgiving and Beyond
Edgar Villanueva and Hilary Giovale share an ancestral bond that is far from unique, but one that is rarely acknowledged. Edgar is a member of the Lumbee Tribe of North
Don’t Trash Thanksgiving. Decolonize It
Despite the holiday’s false origin tale, we can celebrate in ways that honor those originally dishonored by the day.
8 Tips to Get You Through Difficult Conversations This Holiday Season
The point isn’t to win. It’s to ignite understanding.
Why Thanksgiving Is the Perfect Time to Give Up Meat
I learned that there’s no better way to cultivate gratitude than through food.
Can You Celebrate American History Without Celebrating Colonialism?
In Santa Fe, New Mexico, the move to decolonize the annual Entrada celebration shows how complex identity and culture are.
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