Slate • 20th June 2023

Tennessee Is for Trans People, Too

A sort of tenuous harmony was once possible for trans people living rurally, even with a preponderance of religious and conservative neighbors. That’s now changing, as Republicans and even churches weaponize trans rights as a base-rallying tactic.

Rolling Stone • 1st October 2023

'Mice in a Maze of Pain': Inside the Scandal-Scarred Comeback of Star DJ Bassnectar

To those who worked with Ashton, says one former employee, it was understood that Bassnectar was not the collaborative project it was made out to be, but a chaotic and manipulative “dictatorship” that the former employee calls “a maze of pain.”

Mother Jones (print) • 1st March 2020

The Black Hills Are Not For Sale

For Brave, the Dewey-Burdock mine is just the latest battle in a long war to stop settlers’ affronts to Lakota lands and sovereignty. “They’re taking so much from [the earth] and not giving anything back,” Brave tells me, a hand-rolled cigarette dangling from her fingers. “I’m thinking we should say to them, ‘Get the hell off. Your rent is over.’”

Mother Jones (print) • 1st March 2020

Ghost Stories: Hooking up while trans on the latest frontier of misogyny

After transitioning, I attracted more straight guys, who hewed to a different cultural script. They tried to charm me with pickup lines and offered to take me on dates. After a long day of getting misgendered in public, I found great validation in turning on my phone to finally be treated like a lady. Of course, that often meant being treated like shit.

Rolling Stone • 27th July 2021

Want Proof We Need a Civilian Climate Corps? Look No Further Than Louisiana

Climate trauma is now routine across the Gulf South, with families like the Januarys having lived through multiple disasters. The Civilian Climate Corps, a massive program now being debated in Congress, could hire up to millions of people to work on projects like wetlands restoration and sustainable farming in Louisiana and beyond.

Rolling Stone • 6th January 2023

Does the Queer Scene Have a Ketamine Problem?

As me and my friends’ usage ballooned during the pandemic, and some began using daily, I wondered what ketamine was doing for us: why in this time, in this community, was it having such a moment?

Pitchfork • 25th January 2024

Review of "The Breakdown" by Ms. Boogie

Wielding the moody beats and unflinching honesty of drill music, the Brooklyn rapper takes an intimate look into the oft-unseen realities of sex work and trans survival.

Mother Jones • 11th November 2019

The solution to California's wildfire problem lies in Indigenous wisdom

Tripp would like to see tens of thousands more acres in his tribe’s region burned. “We’ve got people on hand who are ready and qualified, it’s right on our homelands, and we’ve been doing this for millennia. But as long as we’re relying on someone else to make the decision of when to act, I don’t think we’re gonna get there.”

n+1 • 13th March 2017

The Gentrification of Standing Rock

By the end of the meeting, the air was thick with tension. Johnny looked exasperated. He rubbed his temples and spoke once more, seeming to invite sympathy. “Do you see what we’re dealing with here?” he asked. “Our decolonial space is being colonized.”

Pitchfork • 21st July 2022

Trans Women DJs Are Taking Over the Club

Long sidelined even within queer nightlife, trans-run parties stacked with trans talent are now being recognized as some of the best parties out there, drawing hordes of queer and straight ravers alike. So swiftly and soundly have the tides turned that some call this era “the doll takeover.”

Mother Jones • 7th February 2020

Keystone XL is back. The anti-pipeline movement is ready.

TC Energy’s refusal to admit defeat has led many environmental leaders to nickname the project, first commissioned in 2010, “the zombie pipeline”: no matter how many times they kill it, it rears its head again.

Dissent • 24th January 2018

Before Standing Rock, There Was Alcatraz

The camp became a bustling village as hundreds of Natives converged on Alcatraz Island. Never before had so many Indigenous nations joined in a single undertaking.

Teen Vogue • 8th February 2018

If You're Not Indigenous, You Live on Stolen Land

In the past decade, some Western governments have begun to practice land acknowledgments, which show respect for Indigenous peoples and recognize their enduring relationship to the land.

Vice • 7th June 2022

Manos Amigues: Inside Mexico City’s First LGBTQ Soup Kitchen

In Mexico, gender-neutral Spanish is not yet widely embraced, but here in Guerrero, it has gained a foothold thanks to Manos Amigues. Here, people of all ages, genders, and sexualities dine side by side on iridescent tablecloths, between walls adorned with work by queer and trans artists, as Mexican cantina music shuffles with disco on the speakers.

Hell Gate • 18th September 2023

Summer Minerva Is Queering Italian American Heritage, One Film Screening at a Time

Summer Minerva was teaching three friends about the galli, a sanctified class of eunuchs in the Roman Empire who castrated themselves with sharp pieces of flint, when the manager returned to their table.

DoubleBlind • 6th February 2023

Inside Efforts to Preserve Indigenous Wisdom As Psychedelics go “Mainstream”

“A lot of allies let ego center their work, and don’t step aside to let Indigenous voices lead,” says King. In contrast, she says, the IMC Fund recognizes that Indigenous peoples are “unequivocally the experts” and “have the solutions to the issues we’re dealing with, but face barriers to the capital and resources we need to implement those solutions.”

Rolling Stone • 7th July 2021

How a Psychedelics Call-In Line is Helping People Trip Better

Rubin teaches volunteers to “sit with” rather than “guide” callers and texters. “When we are trusting the process, we’re also saying it’s OK to feel bad, it’s OK to not be OK,” says Rubin. “This is a part of a bigger thing happening and we’re gonna be with you through it.”

Resident Advisor • 27th February 2023

Inside Somos Festival's Queer Fantasy

Half the artists on the lineup came from Mexico, with tickets for Latin American residents costing a fifth of what gringos paid. 15 local drag queens, dancers and vogueras from Puerto Vallarta were paid to perform, some of whom shared an enormous beach villa with eight trans scholarship recipients, or becadas, from Mexico City.

Jewish Currents • 2nd April 2020

Lessons From Strike University

Across the campuses, the primary demand is the same: a cost-of-living adjustment to help grad students afford the skyrocketing price of California housing. Some UC students have been forced to live in tents.

Elite Daily • 26th March 2019

Why I Use "They/Them" Pronouns

While the language we’re using might be new, non-binary people are not. We've always been here to share our iridescence with the world. All we ask is that you agree we are real—that neither “he” nor “she” describes us.

Mother Jones • 5th August 2020

How Native Tribes Started Winning at the Supreme Court

This may be the dawn of a new judicial era, catalyzed by the Tribal Supreme Court Project and by new justices whose opinions reflect an evolving understanding of Indian law and history.

Teen Vogue • 21st November 2018

7 Ways to Be An Ally to Native Peoples This Thanksgiving

Coming together with family can be challenging, as we all have different ideas of what “America” is. Yet, if there’s one thing many folks can agree on, it’s that in the history of this country, Native people were wronged.

Mother Jones • 24th June 2020

The reckoning is about more than police violence

Giving Native American communities their due might seem even more difficult than defunding the cops—but in a time when police stations have been torched and abandoned, everything is up for grabs.

Slate • 18th October 2018

Gender Collusion

Nonbinary is trending, and gender nonconformers are becoming more and more visible. But does visibility make us safer or more powerful? Will representation help us achieve our most transformative dreams?