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Fall 2024 : Truth

Fall 2024

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Truth

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The Truth Above All Else

In my faith tradition, there鈥檚 a well-worn adage that the truth will set us free. This idiom, expressed from the pulpits and at dinner tables, is an encouragement to uphold the truth鈥攁bout ourselves and the world around us鈥攁bove all else. 

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Truth and Reckoning

Recognizing the generational harm caused by Native 鈥渂oarding schools鈥� is just the beginning. True healing must center the Indigenous ways of being that these genocidal institutions tried to extinguish.
Abaki Beck
A graphic illustration of bright red, yellow, black, and ochre yellow of round blobs and women's faces.

Safer Sex Work

By embracing harm reduction principles, our culture can collectively empower and protect sex workers.
Justice Rivera
Standing in the rotunda of the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Brigitte Bandit shows the gown she wore鈥攂earing the names of children killed in recent mass shootings in Uvalde and Allen, Texas鈥攖o testify against S.B. 12, which would have criminalized drag performances. In her testimony, she accused Texas GOP lawmakers of 鈥渟pending more time in this legislative session targeting drag queens than gun violence.鈥�

Serving Justice

On stage and in the courthouse, these queens prove drag is not a crime.
Nico Lang

Terra Affirma: Lives of Grass

Sarah Gilman

Voices Beyond Votes

Citizens in Puerto Rico and other colonized U.S. territories can鈥檛 vote, but they are still active participants in democracy.
Laura M. Quintero & Camille Padilla Dalmau

Survivors at the Center

Advocates are on a quest to build a survivor-centric society that frees us all from violence.
Julia Luz Betancourt

Solutions We Love

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Indigenous Foodways

Untangling the Roots of Wild Foods

Valerie Segrest

Choose Us Over Guns

Keeping guns out of schools should be a no-brainer.
Marium Zahra
Just the Facts

This Is Your Brain on Truth

Sonali Kolhatkar
People We Love

Radical Readers

These bibliophiles teach kids to love reading鈥攁nd themselves.
Erin Jones

Culture Shift

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Queering Objectivity

Identity is not an impediment to good journalism.
Sara Youngblood Gregory

False Prophets of Profit

Celebrity financial advice often overlooks systemic barriers that impact Black communities.
Erika Brown
Monumental Shifts Stonebreakers explores what it means to remove statues that honor historic鈥攁nd ongoing鈥攊njustice in the U.S.
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Monumental Shifts

Stonebreakers explores what it means to remove statues that honor historic鈥攁nd ongoing鈥攊njustice in the U.S.
James Tracy

Reflection

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The Honor of Truth

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