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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…

September Song

September 29, 2021

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…