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“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.” — Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

“Feminism asks: what would it be to end the political, social, sexual, economic, psychological, and physical subordination of women? It answers: we do not know, let us try and see.” — Amia Srinivasan

“She reads books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.” — Annie Dillard

“Our voices are a resource. Our pain is a resource. Our joy is a resource. Our connection and love for one another will be the resource. We are not disconnected; we are always moving together. That changes everything.”
— Diane Rosenfeld, “The Bonobo Sisterhood”

”That is the way we plan to lead,
clear on our values.”
— Clare Oumou Verbeten, newly elected Minnesota senator

The values and vision of 20 Minnesotans who care about serving everyone in a culture of abundance, not scarcity and fear. “If it is about us, include us.”

“There is no single story that tells the truth of this community of cells self-organizing within our skin.” — Susan Raffo

The 2022-23 Directory of women-friendly businesses who support the longest continuously run feminist publication in the U.S.!

“It is time … to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
— Maya Angelou

Data reveals the roots of why people are incarcerated — and indicates why prison might not be the solution.

Do you care about: Art, Books, Identity, Equity & Justice, Healing Trauma, Politics, Commentaries, Spirituality, Sexuality? Your answers will direct our coverage.