Flowers, chocolates, and jewelry are carbon-intensive ways to show your love. Try these alternatives instead.
The authors of 鈥淭he Conceivable Future鈥� argue that we should focus less on whether or not to have babies and more on stopping the extraction and burning of fossil fuels.
Data shows that straight, cisgender women are much less likely to have orgasms during sex than their cis male partners. Is it possible to remedy this erotic inequality?
Explore these stories from the YES! archives to understand why Black history鈥攁nd Black futures鈥攁re essential to building a better world.
White supremacy and caste-based supremacy are two sides of the same coin, Dalit writer Yashica Dutt shows in this excerpt from her new book.
Israel continues to paint itself as a pro-LGBTQ haven in the Middle East, using this alleged tolerance as justification for its genocide in Gaza. Queer activists around the world are pushing back.
Moving at the speed of trust has allowed this cooperative to create new visions of abundance鈥攆ar beyond what white supremacist patriarchal hegemony deemed possible.
As early adopters鈥攁nd innovators鈥攐f the internet, transgender people carved out enduring, invaluable safe spaces to find community, support, and themselves online.
Voices are echoing worldwide as tens of thousands of people take to the streets to demand an immediate cease-fire and an end to Israel鈥檚 war on Gaza.
In the face of far-right extremist groups like Moms for Liberty, 鈥渟chool moms鈥� have become the frontline defenders of education for all.
Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, it鈥檚 essential to remember that 鈥渘ever again鈥� means for anyone.
Being a Palestinian journalist has never been easy, but Israel鈥檚 escalation of violence against members of the press in Gaza is unprecedented, say press freedom advocates. Can global solidarity help stop the bloodshed?
To produce food in the face of climate change, we may need to learn from so-called weeds.
A new generation of poets, essayists, memoirists, and novelists is narrating stories of severed connections and exploitation鈥攂oth their own and the Earth鈥檚.
For this California mom, supporting her medically complex son鈥檚 relationship with food meant relinquishing control and embracing what worked.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs offers a Winter Solstice spell to help us embrace the darkness and light of this moment.
Writing under a pseudonym to protect herself, a high school student details the intimidation she and her peers have faced from schools for protesting the Gaza genocide.
If we do not turn away from our grief, we can use it to craft armor, building a new demographic that will rise from the rubble to dance like dust.
The YES! Editorial team will be offline until Jan. 2, 2024, when we will resume publishing new content.
In this exclusive conversation, two visionary abolitionist authors and reflect on the how the newest book in the Emergent Strategy series came to be.
In this excerpt, author Nora Krug illustrates her correspondence with two individuals who share their diverging experiences of Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine.
On the Colville Reservation, tribal members are restoring wildlife populations鈥攁nd with them, abundance, resilience, and reciprocity.
The Colville Confederated Tribes are dedicated to 鈥渞euniting with old friends鈥� by reintroducing fish to their shared waters and pronghorn to their ancestral lands.
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation in Washington State are restoring the lands and species of their traditional ecological community.
Instead of cancelling Christmas in the face of the genocide in Gaza, this observant Christian Arab American author shares proactive steps to press for peace.
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