Victoria Valenzuela: How organizers are addressing sexual violence in movement spaces
The revelations about Cesar Chavez underscore the need to reckon with sexual abuse by changing organizing cultures and following workers’ lead.
Adrian Rice: This Letting Go
Stock-still in sunshine in the graveyard,
close to a perfectly plump bush,
listening to a northern mockingbird
running the river of its songs
Philip Landrigan & Ella Whitman: Pittsburgh’s air pollution estimated to claim 3,000+ lives per year − and EPA rollbacks aren’t helping
Pittsburgh’s air pollution not only led to increased deaths, but it also had other negative effects, from lowered IQ in children to adverse birth outcomes.
David Lauterstein: Puzzle Box
Then a side piece slides and reveals a drawer that has
tiny pieces of black licorice
as if death could be sweet
but now you are crying
Rita Dove: Parsley
It is fall, when thoughts turn
to love and death; the general thinks
of his mother, how she died in the fall
and he planted her walking cane at the grave
and it flowered
Farrah Hassen: American Muslims don’t need to defend our existence
It’s bigoted politicians, not Muslims like me, who threaten our way of life in this country.
George Yancy: Trump Relies on Centuries-Old Notions of Whiteness to Activate His MAGA Base
Whiteness is baked into the US’s DNA. Can it be structurally dismantled?
Tony Gloeggler: Sunday
Back in 1968 I always felt good
on a baseball field or basketball
court, listening to summer songs
on a transistor radio, head bowed
Video: J.S. Bach | Prelude in C Minor “pour le luth” | BWV 999 | David Tayler
The prelude features a dialogue of two textures.
Ellen Austin-Li: Blushing & Rising
The kaleidoscope spins shards of shifting glass,
and I emerge wearing this hot pink sweat-
shirt with zippers. Come inside where it’s wet
and I’m alive, fire eyes.
Video: Anti-Inflammatory Foods | The Benefits of Berries
A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study found that blueberry smoothies could turn off inflammation genes.
Derrick Z. Jackson: Here’s why Pete Hegseth’s war on the Endangered Species Act is so misguided
The administration argues that it needs exemptions to the Endangered Species Act to extract more oil from the Gulf of Mexico when it’s already extracting record amounts.
Robinson Jeffers: Ocean
The gray whales are going south: I see their fountains
Rise from black sea: great dark bulks of hot blood
Plowing the deep cold sea to their trysting-place
