As temperatures continue to rise, California workers, worker protection groups, and state regulators are making progress on implementing heat regulations. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
As temperatures continue to rise, California workers, worker protection groups, and state regulators are making progress on implementing heat regulations. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
For the city’s LGBTQ community, Toronto’s outdoor spaces have been sites of both liberation and violence Continue reading at the publisher's website.
Palestinian refugees are settling in the Philippines, and bringing their cultural foods with them. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
Tech companies can help offset the loss of affirmative action by proactively investing in Black and Latinx students. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
”Atoms Never Touch“ offers a revolutionary premise: The love between trans women is the key to the new world we imagine. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
Despite political repression in the 1980s and 1990s, LGBTQ people enjoyed surprising freedom on public access television networks. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
La poeta Julie Quiroz ofrece un hechizo de solsticio de verano que celebra la nacimiento de la luz. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
Poet Julie Quiroz offers a summer solstice spell that celebrates the story of light. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
Efforts to invest in “care, not cops” continue in advance of the 2024 election—albeit at a slower pace than in 2020. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
With her latest film, Ava DuVernay is modeling a new way of financing impactful films and ensuring creative freedom. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
Tamela Gordon’s new book, Hood Wellness, shows what it looks like to hold others—and be held—in community. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
A groundbreaking legal agreement mandates that Colorado cover gender-affirming health care for incarcerated trans women, and offers them the option to be housed with other women. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
When everything that brings LGBTQ people joy is under attack, dancing, laughing, and celebrating our persistent existence are direct acts of resistance. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
Finding our way to a viable human future will require the guidance of a true eco-nomics, grounded in biology and ecology rather than finance and capital. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
An innovative sex-ed curriculum in Southern California is teaching incarcerated men about consent, birth control, and dismantling masculinity. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
This annual summer camp for trans men of all ages offers community, connection, and masculinity that’s rooted in love. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
After adopting the George Floyd Resolution for Police-Free Schools, Oakland-area schools saw significant reductions in racist criminalization of Black and Brown kids. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
This author learned that he was one of many queer kids who gravitated toward Scouting, only to later discover his identity rendered him an outcast—or worse, a scapegoat. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
Long harmed by patriarchal, casteist norms within the legal system, women in India are implementing women-centered forms of grassroots justice. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
The vast majority of U.S. polling locations are not fully accessible. Disability justice activists are working to change that. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
Nicole Young argues that Black people’s conscription into America’s endless war-making machine only ensures they will never be safe. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
Switzerland’s “No Blame” approach eschews punishment, instead focusing on empathy, tolerance, and respect. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
Holding on to home and humanity in the face of occupation, displacement, and genocide. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
The freedom to move is a survival strategy. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
Making workplaces more inclusive requires normalizing accommodations like those offered at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
What if we lived in a world where access was not treated as an afterthought, but was embedded in every element of our society instead? Continue reading at the publisher's website.
Organizers working to end police violence refuse to be intimidated by growing efforts to criminalize free speech. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
It will take concerted action to ensure that women belong in the House. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, abortion freedom now hinges on access to pills. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
Fifty years ago, the Boldt decision reaffirmed Indigenous fishing rights and recognized tribes as equal partners in resource management. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
Disabled people know the health care system is hostile. But it doesn’t have to be. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
All people deserve access to this necessary medical care. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
Public libraries help us reimagine collective responsibility. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
How communities around the world are preserving their endangered music. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
Alice Wong is a disabled activist, writer, and editor. She’s also the editor of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-First Century. Her memoir, Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Continue reading at the publisher's website.
Dear Reader, As an able-bodied person, it would be easy for me to move through life mostly oblivious to just how difficult this world can be for people with disabilities. Continue reading at the publisher's website.
How long have you been a YES! reader and how did you find YES!? I was attracted years ago by the Journal of Positive Futures and the work of Fran Continue reading at the publisher's website.
To reach its full potential, the immigrants’ rights movement needs to reject anti-Blackness and build a coalition as diverse as the people who comprise it. Continue reading at the publisher's website.