Content on theory, vision & strategy for kinship and includes content relating to family, parents, children, youth, gender roles within the family, patriarchy, participatory kinship, and ideas and projects that imagine kinship in a more just world.
Tucked in New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s sprawling universal childcare plan is a little-talked-about milestone: In September, the city will open…
In the floodplains of northern Bihar, where seasonal migration has long shaped village life and women rarely handled money beyond household survival,…
No longer just a problem of the industrialized North, birth rates are declining for everyone, everywhere, all at once. In its panic…
Eighty years ago, an organization named CARE—which stands for Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere—responded to worldwide hunger in the aftermath of World War…
For the last 50 years, every institution in Chile’s public sector has told us over and over again that individuals succeed through…
This is a call to action for men. How can so many of us stay silent in the face of an ongoing…
The United States is a nation of extraordinary wealth and extraordinary contradiction. Tens of millions of Americans live in material insecurity, while aggregate…
Pampa de Pocho is a rural area in the province of Córdoba, in central Argentina, with no piped gas or electricity. Women…
Domestic and Care Work: Labor Without Wages or Recognition Domestic and care work is among the most marginalized forms of labor in…
Just when the world needs it most, the multilateral system is coming apart. The institutional spaces created to confront threats like war,…
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