Tag Archive for: TOC

Staking a Claim on Community Values
Editor's letter and table of contents: Who gets to decide what we value in shared community, what we pay for, and what we want to see from our government?

Powering the Future and TOC
In this month’s magazine, we learn from several people about the ways that cooperation, collaboration, and new collective experiences have energized their lives. We also announce a new intention for the future of this magazine.

Announcing a Bold Experiment and TOC
In this month’s magazine, we learn from several people about the ways that cooperation, collaboration, and new collective experiences have energized their lives. We also announce a new intention for the future of this magazine.

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

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.

The Courage to Swim: Editor’s Letter and TOC
The oppressed struggle in language to recover ourselves, to reconcile, to reunite, to renew. Our words are not without meaning, they are an action, a resistance. Language is also a place of struggle. — bell hooks

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”

Putting Money and Policy Behind Prevention: Editor’s Letter and TOC
Melissa Petrangelo Scaia: "My frustration is not that we do not know how to end violence against women. It is that we have not changed the thinking that women are less.”


For 2025 coverage, Minnesota Women’s Press earned a community leadership award, three photography awards, and four editorial awards, including for coverage of social issues and for our Spring 2025 “Know Your Rights” special section supported by Unidos MN. Our publisher was named Journalist of the Year by Violence Free Minnesota for gender-based violence coverage.