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Defusing Patriarchal Violence: Editor’s Letter and TOC

“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

Reading Into It: Editor’s Letter and TOC

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

Intra-Action: Editor’s Letter and TOC

“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”

What Do We Value? – Editor’s Letter and TOC

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

How Does It Feel to Be In Your Body? – Editor’s Letter and TOC

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

Preparing for the Future: Editor’s Letter and TOC

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

Why Incarceration Does Not Reduce Crime: Editor’s Letter and TOC

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

Birth and Bodily Autonomy: Editor’s Letter and TOC

The is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives. — Audre Lorde

The Ethics of Community Care: Editor’s Letter and TOC

"Imagination shared creates collaboration, and collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change." — Terry Tempest Williams

Lessons From Marine Mammals: Editor’s Letter & TOC

I had to focus not on what I could see, but on how the sound bouncing off me in relation to structures and environments locates me in a constantly shifting relationship to you, whoever you are by now. —Alexis Pauline Gumbs, “Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons From Marine Mammals”

Collectively Facing Down Fear: Editor’s Letter & TOC

“This fear spurs me into action.” — Lindalee Soderstrom

Non-Linear Time: Editor’s Letter and TOC

The people in these pages remind us that this moment in time is very much connected to what came before and what will follow.