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Life & Culture

How a Biker Club Evolved Into Protest Marshals and Fundraisers

We recently talked to a few riders in a Twin Cities motorcycle club — including people named Barbie, Kassie, Bridget, Rachel, Amie, Marni, and Megan. The group is known as Bikers Riding Against Policy Brutality, and was formed to protect protestors after George Floyd was murdered by police in 2020. Today they are still engaged in marshaling at various marches, but also in fundraising and mutual aid efforts.
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Hegseth Made the Fitness Test Harder: Most Female Marines Are Passing

“I think [Hegseth's] mandate is based on the belief that women can’t meet men’s fitness standards within combat arms." According to Marine Corps data, 91.38 percent of women and 96.53 percent of men in combat arms who have taken the test since January have met or exceeded that threshold.
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Compulsory Safety, Continued: What Black Rural Families Are Building Now

School has begun in Minnesota. For many families, this is…
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Transgendered among us

The struggle for acceptance challenges mainstream ideas of gender, identity and even feminism
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A life blessed

Activist, educator and volunteer Josie Robinson Johnson made equality her life’s work
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The body electric

At Suzanne River’s school, students come to know their bodies from the inside out
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Conversations about faith

“Speaking of Faith” host Krista Tippett on women and the nature of faith in today’s political climate
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Journey of the spirit

Local visionary seeks dignity for Native Americans in life and death
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Schools to take next step toward inclusive curricula

"More than 15 years ago, the state issued guidelines for correcting racial and gender inequalities in school curricula." ... This was published in a Minnesota Women's Press story in August 1989. That means we have intended to correct this issue since 1974.
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