When Renee Lau, a special projects coordinator at the trans-led housing and wellness center Baltimore Safe Haven, transitioned at the age of 63, she lost everything.“My marriage fell apart,” she says.

This story originally appeared at Waging Nonviolence, and is reprinted here under a Creative Commons license.. On June 11, a week after a police training facility in Richmond, California, broke ground ...

Elevate teaching with YES! for Teachers. Empower students through enriching content on justice, sustainability, and compassion. #Teaching #YESMagazine ...

After a day or two spent adventuring outside, I come back to my day-to-day with an extra spring in my step. The outdoors is where I feel most affirmed in my queer and trans identities, and most at ...

Explore a wealth of topics in the YES! Magazine Issues archive. Thought-provoking articles on justice, sustainability, and compassion. Join the conversation for positive change. #YESMagazine ...

Whether one participates in settler colonialism is not entirely a matter of when or how one’s ancestors came to the U.S. Having settler privilege means that some combination of one’s economic security ...

Since taking office in January 2025, President Donald Trump has launched an all-out assault on the nation’s past. He has cut funding and signed executive orders targeting historical programming at ...

For all material designated Creative Commons (cc): (as used herein, material means the text of the articles, and does not mean titles, images, or illustrations) You are free to reprint articles 48 ...

The helpline began in Massachusetts, but a coalition of California-based advocacy groups are promoting its use across the Golden State. Their goal is to make the helpline widely accessible to people ...

Jade Prévost-Manuel is a Canadian multimedia journalist, writer, and copy editor. Covering stories from abortion movements in Haiti to the impact of foreign healthcare recruitment programs in Morocco, ...

Some of that work is definitely somatic in nature: identifying joy in the body so we can call it up when we need it. But some of it is just some good ol’ soul work: unlearning the generational ...

The number of Black-owned farms has dropped from 14% in the 1920s to just 1.3% today, and in California, less than 1% of land is owned by Indigenous people.A new generation of Black, Indigenous, ...