3 Climate Activists Making Change in Their Frontline Communities
BIPOC leaders pursue visionary solutions proportional to the climate emergency we face.
Social Justice
How Parents Can Support Their Trans Kids
Research shows that family acceptance and affirmation can have a life-saving impact on transgender youth.
Survival as Transformative Justice: “Live and Work and Be Free and Heal”
Transformative Justice is not just replacing the cops. It’s a completely different worldview.
Tough Love for Mediocre White Guys
Getting White men to give up dominance is a challenge.
Closing the Digital Divide
How communities are addressing the digital divide equitably and quickly.
Toward Disability Justice
Don’t forget the plastic that gives me freedom.
Toward Eco-Social Justice
The disconnection and buried shame that hold us back.
Biden Bets Big on the Care Economy
The president’s American Families Plan takes its cue from feminist economists who have long advocated for a renewed focus on the social safety net.
The History of Cinco de Mayo
Americans might love the holiday, but few know what they’re celebrating.
What Purpose Does a Border Serve?
Border walls aren’t necessary, and neither are the borders themselves in a world built on justice and equality, says author Todd Miller.
Imagine a World Without Borders
Walls and fences at national borders enforce inequality, racial divides, and climate catastrophe. But most of them began as invisible lines in the sand.
The PBS Show Celebrating Alaska Native Communities
The Indigenous writers and developers of “Molly of Denali” also share their own stories—and find healing in the process.
Dear Latina Sisters: Will You Name and Disrupt Anti-Blackness?
It’s easy for us to spot White supremacy in others. But we have a harder time acknowledging it in our own communities.
To Decarbonize the Economy Equitably, Start With Schools
When schools achieve environmental justice, the whole climate benefits.
Inconvenient Identity: Magnus’ Story
Magnus has a heartbreaking conversation with their mom as she dices onions. In this video, created in a filmmaking workshop led by Outside the Frame and Oregon State University, Magnus tries to make
Queer Latinx Youth Amplify Their Voices Using Telenovelas
A new digital telenovela aims to put queer Latinx youth in charge of telling their own stories.
10 Examples of Environmental Racism and How It Works
Here’s what to know about the unexpected effects of discriminatory environmental policies.
The Queer-Led Groups Modeling a New Form of Land Access
Changing ownership and wealth distribution, even at a small scale, presents a model for how to ultimately address the climate crisis.
How a North Carolina Pastor Uses Faith to Mobilize Climate Action
Hardin-Nieri believes scripture can help religious communities better comprehend the unfolding environmental catastrophes happening around them—and do something about it.
We Don’t Need Prisons to Make Us Safer
To the statement that prisons provide safety, we should ask, “Safety for whom? And from what?”
Black Writers and Poets Are Upending Stereotypes About Appalachia
Affrilachian artistry and identity allows Appalachia to be fully seen as the diverse and culturally rich region that it is.
The Wildlife Refuge Helping a Community Fight for Environmental Justice
Can this New Mexico community get green space without the gentrification that usually follows?
How Many More Times Must We Say the Same Thing?
No more reforms. It’s time for true transformation.
Two Climate Migrants Recount Radically Different Experiences Seeking Sanctuary in the US
The United States has done more to fuel climate migration than any other country on Earth, but it does not always welcome climate migrants equally.
The 18-Year-Old Climate Protester Now Advising Biden on Climate Policy
After a year of school striking for Fridays for Future outside the White House, Jerome Foster has been ushered in to help advise the president.
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