Medically-managed birthing practices in Trinidad and Tobago are bound to the country’s colonial history. A contemporary resurgence of home births attended by midwives marks an important period in contemporary health care in the country.
Brazilian Indigenous peoples’ lives are on the line to defend our chance to have a future. They need our help now; we need to wake up. It is time to take a last stand for Indigenous rights, for the Amazon, for the climate, and for the planet.
The children that poet Robert Glück taught booed the “Poetry Playhouse” and wrote scatological jokes. He asked them for more.
Amidst a record-breaking national heat wave and second year of rampant wildfires, a group of dancers construct a new form of environmental advocacy in the California redwoods.
The third workshop of the Rewilding Borikén series, “Fotorevelado con anamú”, examines the art of making film developers with local plants and deepens our knowledge of silver’s role in analogue photography.
In the first installment of the Long Hauling series, two artists and HIV activists reflect on mutual care and their experience of being sick with COVID-19 during the initial months of the pandemic in 2020.
The second workshop in the Rewilding Borikén series, “Fermentos con Frutas y Hortalizas” went beyond the basics of fermentation to examine how ecological successions permeate life from the forest to your gut.
When a resourceful teacher gave a video camera to “the problem kids” they filmed what they knew to be true, and showed it. Now no one can make them stop.
While the pandemic’s impact on social, political, and economic structures has been unprecedented, the uncertainty, tension, and collapse that people face on a daily basis is not.
Sign the petition: “Protect the Amazon and Indigenous rights or face international boycott.”
Wanting to help “refugees,” we tell stories of distant disasters and flight and rescue. But what stories do people on the move tell?
The first workshop in the Rewilding Borikén series, “Chromatic Affects” details natural dyeing techniques and how to make watercolors with local mineral pigments.