Editor’s Letter

The long-standing experiment in clear-cutting the environment in order to prioritize one objective does not work.

How do we build true equality without duplicating the short-lived experiment of Reconstruction after the Civil War?

“Walking through darkness with thoughts full of colors.” — Prajakta Mhadnak

The extensive reporting of this issue, in print and online, would not have been possible without a generous grant from The Minneapolis Foundation.

This issue offers a look at the spectrum of experiences people of marginalized genders are navigating while sheltering in place.

Coverage will be focused on past, present, and future women who are helping to move our society away from one in which only a small percentage thrives.

Our readers and community-based writers are integral to what we do.

A publication like ours is created based on the passions of our audience, which is why we seek your input

Solutions that get to short-term, surface-level relief, without correcting the underlying issue, do not fix anything.

Gated communities are created largely to keep certain people out. How is the monotone nature of many decision-makers impacting society?

Do you understand that your quality of life and your survival are tied to how authentic and generous the connections are between you and the people and place you live with and in?
— adrienne maree brown, “Emergent Strategy”

What is it that makes a person the very person that she is, herself alone and not another, an integrity of identity that persists over time, undergoing [bodily] changes and yet still continuing to be — until she does not continue any longer?
— Rebecca Newberger Goldstein