Identity

2023 Changemaker Hli Xyooj: Bridging the Hmong Community

11/29/2023

“How do I empower myself by empowering my community?”

Expressing Ourselves Throughout History

10/25/2023

Exploring, nurturing, and truly feeling gender is not something reserved for queer people, or for young people.

Anisa Hagi-Mohamed’s Affirmations

06/28/2023

I feel like colonialism, war, and trauma have changed our language and mindsets. It doesn’t feel right. We come from such an abundant culture.

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Faith & Fight: Barbara Satin Spent Decades Advocating for Trans Inclusion in Church Communities

05/28/2022

As a devout Catholic who spent time in the seminary in her late teens, Satin says she knew that there was little room for women in leadership in the Catholic church and absolutely no acceptance of a transgender person.

Why the World Doesn’t Deserve Black Children: The Peculiar Birthing Rights of Black Women

04/28/2022

It was her words “how dare you” that made me sit with my ideas about reproductive rights.

Birthing With Your Full Self

04/28/2022

A Conversation with J'Mag Karbeah, Health Equity Researcher

In Finland, Minnesota, Community Is a Verb

03/28/2022

This type of community attracts people who value it. Our job is to nurture that so it continues.

The Fire She Fights

01/27/2022

I decided women firefighters deserve to be seen as we are.

Collective Effort: Resettling Afghan Refugees in Minnesota

12/08/2021

There are dozens of people statewide who are working together…

Georgia Fort: Holding Media Accountable

11/30/2021

“It is about examining the media industry and saying, ‘How can we be better collectively? How can we stop being an industry that causes further harm to marginalized and oppressed communities?’”

Turtle Island Stories: The Sustainable Agriculture Movement

11/21/2021

By doing this work, Harvest Nation assumes a receiving role within the large movement known as Rematriation, the returning of seeds to their mother land to be reunited with the earth and its people.

My Mother’s Salmon-Pink Dress

08/25/2021

Though it would be better not to carry any suitcase other than my body, which is — mostly anyway — vents, memories, and naked bones.

Queer Health & Relational Healing

05/25/2021

Larissa Little (center) at a button-making event promoting…

Black Queens

04/23/2021

Black history is vast and we have only begun to scratch its surface.

CAAL Releases Pioneering Economic Report on Asian Minnesotans

01/26/2021

Many report that their cultural communities value familial interdependence, such as caregiving, establishing lending circles, and sharing housing. Some indicated the difficulty of adapting to the U.S. system of economic individualism.

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