Spirituality/Nature

There was no cell service. I knew I had to move fast.

I think this was his way to tell me that in my life, there were people who would try to control my stomach, my Black body. I have been taught that we, as Black people, reflect and realize what destiny is and how people in power can never take that away.

Eventually, I began to imagine what could happen if the 650,000 sisters across the world had resources to address root causes of poverty. Sisters are already in place, living and working in areas of greatest need.

My internalized oppressions shamed and screamed, “You did not do enough! Do something! Do more!”

Excerpted from “The Stone Tomahawk” in Linda LeGarde Grover, “Gichigami Hearts: Stories and Histories from Misaabekong” from the University of Minnesota Press, October 2021.

As conservationists like to say, we are “moving the needle.”

The women in the paintings do not shy away from telling the story of their injuries, but they are not defined by them.

I believe the only way to harness time is by linking ourselves to something eternal.

The first time Karlyn Eckman (who uses any pronouns) was featured in Minnesota Women’s Press, in 2007, they were working

“Everyone is still embedded in the false idea that they will always have access to lots of water.”

Last in our series of “Where Are They Now?” vignettes about environmentalists in Minnesota

Introduction written by Kristy Ornelas For the majority of my life, the faces I saw recreating and educating on the