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International Studies, 1967
October 9, 2021
On our way to breakfast, we meet a small pig tethered to a tree. We name her Pink and greet her daily, until she is served at evening meal.
Recovering Women’s Reproductive Lives, One Mutilated Record at a Time
October 8, 2021
by Catherine Prendergast
Catherine Prendergast is a Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Fulbright Scholar. Her latest book and first…
DEBRA ROBERTS and Holy Bee Press
October 3, 2021
DEBRA ROBERTS is a natural (treatment-free) beekeeper and international honeybee educator, speaker, mentor, advocate, artist, poet and writer.
APRIL JOHNSON Portraiture
October 3, 2021
A Little Bit About April…
April Johnson is now living in the serene mountains of Western North Carolina. She has dual BFA degrees, one in fine arts from Kent State Uni…
Difference Between Healing and Curing
October 3, 2021
Michael Lerner, PhD
In my thirty years of working with cancer patients, I’ve seen a profound distinction between curing and healing.
A River Reawakened
October 1, 2021
By Jessica Plumb in Orion
Ten Years of Rewilding the Elwha Watershed
IN SEPTEMBER 2011, I stood on a river overlook with children from my daughter’s elementary school, all of us transfixed by…
Dolores Huerta: An American Latino Labor Leader and Civil Rights Activist by Pramod Sukumaran
September 22, 2021
by Pramod Sukumaran
Dolores Huerta taught us sí se puede—yes we can.
This was Huerta’s rallying cry as she inspired Latino farm workers to demand fair wages and better working condit…
North Carolina League of Conservation Voters
September 21, 2021
We advocate for your environmental values to protect your family and community.
Ph.D. candidate named Ruth Bader Ginsburg Predoctoral Fellow
September 16, 2021
By Emma Rothberg
June 9, 2021
The National Women’s History Museum has named Emma Rothberg, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, as an inaugural U.S. Supreme Court Ru…
The Trailblazing Women of Stand-Up Comedy
September 16, 2021
By Mariana Brandman
The story of the female pioneers of American stand-up comedy often begins and ends with icons Phyllis Diller and Joan Rivers.
Who Was Pauli Murray?
September 16, 2021
On a recent episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick discussed the legacy of Pauli Murray—a Black, non-binary, queer, feminist, civil rights pioneer who was also a poet, a teacher, a lawyer and legal…












