8 Books for Insight and Inspiration
YES! staff members recommend reads that provoke thought and prompt action.
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Overcoming Colonial Thinking to Connect With Life
The pull of solving problems is nearly irresistible, but we should prioritize relationships with our environment.
Oracle Cards Inspired by the Earth
An ecological card deck offers wise teachings and prompts healing.
Beyond BMI: A New Book Embodies Fat Liberation
Evette Dionne鈥檚 new and highly personal book pushes back against cultural and medical fat shaming.
Social Change, at the Cellular Level
A new book argues that even small things can help grow the world we want.
It鈥檚 Time to Make Accessibility Our Collective Responsibility
More than 30 years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the burden of enforcement often still falls on disabled people and their families.
Democracy Lives to Fight Another Day
Take a breather as we roll into the end of 2022, because the year ahead is going to keep all of us on our toes to defend democracy. Again.
萝莉社: Accountable Endings
The end of a world built on toxic ideas of supremacy can make way for a better, more collective and connected existence, writes adrienne maree brown.
Carving a Better Tomorrow Out of a Worsening Today
Frida Berrigan reflects on living in a world of tipping points.
The Deadly Consequences of Hate
LGBTQ people have always been the ones to keep each other safe. But we shouldn鈥檛 have to.
Nonprofits Need to Practice What They Preach
Nonprofit organizations attract employees from diverse backgrounds, but often fail to create affirming workplace cultures for them.
What the Whiteness Story of America Denies
Conservatives fuming over critical race theory fail to recognize a fundamental truth about the United States: Diversity is our strength.
How to Support Your Mental Health During the Change in Seasons
For some, a lack of light and warmth can have a negative impact on mental wellbeing. Here are some ways to navigate this transition.
What Do We Do While Waiting to Realize Prison Abolition?
Attorney Sia Henry shares a wrenching personal experience highlighting the challenges of operating in world where prison abolition is not yet a reality.
Uganda鈥檚 Diverse Disability Movement Offers Lessons for an Ableist Global Philanthropy 聽
Achieving disability rights paves the way for greater equity and inclusion.
Reckoning With Right-Wing Violence
When one of the nation鈥檚 two political parties no longer believes in the democratic process, what happens to democracy?
The Most Important Midterm Election
There are some positive signs heading into Election Day. But there are just as many indicating a far grimmer outcome.
Assessing the True Extent of Poverty in the Richest Nation on Earth
To address the problems of our 鈥渟urprisingly impoverished democracy鈥� in the midterm elections, Liz Theoharis argues that policymakers would have to take seriously the realities of tens of millions of poor and low-income people.
Rediscovering the Family Wisdom of Yoga
As a stressed young adult, I reconnected with my family's yoga practices to help with healing and sleep.
Manchin鈥檚 Pipeline Loss Shows Frontline and Green Groups Are Gaining Steam
鈥淲e launched our movement to breathe clean air 鈥� amid the Movement for Black Lives chanting 鈥榳e can鈥檛 breathe鈥� and a pandemic disproportionately killing Black people.鈥�
萝莉社: Accountable to Our Ancestors
adrienne maree brown ponders how (and whether) we should be accountable to ancestors who held beliefs vastly different from our own.
Reclaiming Abundance Under Capitalism
Is there a way we can be critical of our cultures of consumption, while also preserving the spirit of abundance?
Going Beyond Charity: How Businesses Can Achieve Permanent Sustainability
A shift away from maximizing profits and to employee ownership can yield a more positive impact.
We Need to Replace White Feminism With Inclusive Feminism
By centering feminism on gender alone and conveniently sidelining the impact of whiteness, class, culture, imperialism, and religion on gender parity, white women have co-opted the feminist space. It鈥檚 time to change this.
On the Other Side of Reparations, a New World Awaits
Inspiring stories about our past can open portals to the world that awaits us and help us dream what a world with reparations looks like.
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