Ever feel like your body bears not only your own lifetime of scars, but also the weight of traumas borne by your parents, grandparents, and even further-out generations? There is an increasing body of science that says you do, in fact, carry your ancestors’ traumas as...

Preserving food is a way of life that people have been doing to survive since probably the dawn of people—and it’s a practice that most rural trans and non-binary folks are well familiar with. But what maybe hasn’t existed for that long is the concept that preserving...

Contributor: Rev. Sean Dennison It started as a kind of challenge: was it possible to pray in a meaningful way in only 140 characters? I’m a Unitarian Universalist minister and we have a reputation for being verbose—using a LOT of huge words—and enjoying hearing...

Many sexual assault survivors fantasize about confronting their perpetrators. Perhaps the goal would be to express how much pain they had caused, hurt them back, hear the perpetrator take responsibility for their actions, or even explore whether forgiveness is the...

Since the dawn of capitalism, mainstream media has sold a one-size-fits-none ideal of the human body, particularly in advertising. More and more media and ad campaigns are boldly featuring real bodies—bodies of all shapes, sizes, colors, and abilities—but it is still...