Organizers Brace for Resurrection ofย โZombieโย Abortion Laws
Despite conservative efforts to criminalize medication abortion using the 1873 Comstock Act, organizers continue to expand access to this necessary health care.
Body Politics
Rare-Disease Patients Know: We All Deserve Better Care
Often forced to become experts on their own treatment, rare-disease patients are modeling the collective care and mutual aid networks that can help ensure everyone's long-term survival.
Unlearning Queerphobia
Schools are a powerful place to begin building an LGBTQ-affirming culture, as an antidote to fear and bigotry.
A Liberatory Vision for Reproductive Justice
A progressive alternative to Project 2025's anti-abortion vision includes no-cost abortions, on-demand, for everyone who wants one.
Misogyny Didnโt Need a Mic During the TrumpโHarris Debate
Despite muted microphones during the first debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, each candidate's face spoke volumes.
A Progress 2025 Vision for Health Care
Instead of gutting Medicare and Medicaid, as Project 2025 envisions, here's what a holistic, collective approach to health care would look like.
Progress 2025: A Vision for LGBTQ Rights
The Heritage Foundationโs Project 2025 has promised a dystopian vision for LGBTQ rights. Its ideas are consistent with authoritarian, Christian nationalist, and white supremacist objectives. It aims to criminalize the existence
Democrats Embrace the Power of Nontoxic Masculinity
To show their support of a future Madame President, Gov. Tim Walz and others in the party are publicly relinquishing male power and privilege.
From The Current Issue
Serving Justice
On stage and in the courthouse, these queens prove drag is not a crime.
In Defense of the โWeirdโ
It's hypocritical for each party to claim to speak on behalf of the forgotten and marginalized while mockingly calling the other side โweird.โ Itโs also deeply regressive.
Protecting Black Pregnant Peopleโs Healthโand Data
Birth workers serving Black pregnant people maintain the holistic methodsโand data privacyโthat distinguish doula care from the medical-industrial complex.
How Black Women Can Protect Their Peace This Election Cycle
In the months prior to Vice President Kamala Harrisโ nomination to the Democratic presidential ticket, I felt a lingering fear in my body about what it would mean for Black
Punjabi Californians Find a Lifeline Through Community Health Workers
Facing a health care system without sufficient translation services and a grueling economic landscape, Punjabi residents in Fresno, California, have created an organization to help meet their communityโs unique needs.
We Donโt Need Misogynoir to Critique Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris can and should be critiqued for her political rรฉsumรฉโbut criticism rooted in misogynoir should have no place in political discourse.
The Complexity of Harrisโ Historic Candidacy
Women of color want demographic and political representation, just as wealthy white men have had for generations.
Whatโs in a Name? For Abortion Providers, Quite a Bit.
Even before abortion became illegal in 14 states, some reproductive health care clinics were rebranding to better reflect the broad spectrum of gender-inclusive care they provide.
Meet the Couples Upending Indiaโs Caste-Based Marriages
In stark contrast to the billionaire Ambanisโ wedding, some Indians are subverting patriarchy, caste, and class in their ceremonies.
Courage By Any Other Name
In times of trouble, cowards choose the easiest path. It is only the courageousโand almost always those who are most marginalizedโwho dare to say and do the hard, but right, thing.
AI Canโt Fix Our Broken Health Care System, But People Can
AI is trained on data from our health care system as it exists, which means the data is contaminated by racial, economic, and regional disparities. But there are solutions.
Women on Deck: Skateboardingโs Untold Gender-Inclusive History
As skateboarding becomes an Olympic event, โDrop Inโ chronicles the women, nonbinary, and queer skaters who have made the sport more equitable.
Druze Women Balance Sexual Health, Pleasure, and Tradition
Sex education is often taboo in close-knit Druze communities, but a new generation is creating its own care networks.
Rejecting Shame to Reclaim the Power of the Period
Advocates are working to overcome patriarchal structures worldwide that deny menstruating people dignity, access, and agency.
How Three Young Women of Color Took on Power
Journalist Sonali Kohliโs new book centers the life and work of three young women of color who refused to let powerful elites shape their lives and communities.
Murmurations: Queering Abolition
โAtoms Never Touchโ offers a revolutionary premise: The love between trans women is the key to the new world we imagine.
Pride Is Power: How Queer People Are Defeating Anti-LGBTQ Laws
Faced with unprecedented numbers of anti-LGBTQ bills, queer people are taking to the state houses, courts, and communities to prove that love wins.
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