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.
In December 2023, former State Department official, Josh Paul told CNN anchor, Christiane Amanpour that during his tenure in the foreign service,…
As a journalist and political prisoner, the entire “heavy” burden of Room 3 in Ward B10 of Silivri Prison, which I had…
It is an arresting image: On the Fourth of July, a lone, young Black woman sits on a train filled with White…
Itās ironic that the U.S. federal budget was signed on the cusp of World Population Day, which is meant to raise awareness of…
If you want to understand how protest cycles evolve, look not at the crowds but at the empty streets. On June 25,…
Few ideas command more universal agreement than the belief that children must be protected. Across cultures, religions, and political traditions, they are…
For Bangladesh, a country at the absolute frontline of the global climate crisis, adaptation is not merely a technical fix; it is…
On June 23, the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and IsraelĀ released one…
As an African feminist pushing against how systems of oppression endeavor to constrain and diminish, I am concerned with the functions of…
At 2 p.m. every Wednesday, about 15 to 20 women who form a Mahila Panchayat, or Womenās Council, gather in a modest,…
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