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Gitanjali Rao is an 11-year-old Colorado native who spends her free time perusing the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering’s website. Just, like, regular 11-year-old stuff. But why? Fair question. She’s finding inspiration for her inventions. Rao’s been closely following the Flint, Michigan, water crisis for the past two years, so when she was on the MIT website and…
Hey readers, This week, we had a convo with visual artist extraordinaire Destiny Eames on why she creates. Eames is a graphic design student at Carlow University and an artist for social justice. Her vibrant work focuses on body-positivity and advocating for the peripheralized. Her art has received awards and has been featured in several journals, including The Critical Point and…
Historically, asexuality is a sexual orientation (of about 750 million people at last check) mired in myth and misunderstanding. What many have assumed is a disorder others say is just how some people are wired. David Jay, who identifies as asexual, wanted to start a conversation to drop some knowledge into the mix. In 2001, he launched Asexual Visibility & Education…
According to a recent survey, around 40% of homeless youth identify as LGBTQ, a community that is also more likely to be the target of hate crimes than any other minority group. The Hetrick-Martin Institute (HMI) has been working for 37 years to change that. HMI began after a 15-year-old was beaten and thrown from a homeless shelter for being gay…
Being homeless is obviously tough, but it can be especially hard as a young adult. Aged out of foster care, young adults are left to adult homeless shelters where their age makes them more vulnerable than older adults. Sarah Rosenkrantz and Sam Greenberg – recent graduates of Harvard – opened Y2Y Harvard Square, a student-run homeless shelter for young adults, to offer an alternative solution.…
Grace Kim grew up in a community where being gay was unacceptable. At age 4 they already knew they didn’t fit within the gender binary (Kim uses gender-neutral pronouns), and the trauma led them to become selectively mute for almost 20 years. They were severely depressed and suicidal. They decided that before they committed suicide they would have one amazing day.…
When six prisons closed near his home in rural Laurinburg, North Carolina, Noran Sanford didn’t want the spaces to remain dormant and unused. He launched GrowingChange in 2011, an organization dedicated to community development and reducing recidivism. The organization is based out of one of the former prisons. After Sanford and some of his youth participants pitched his idea to the…
Dear readers, We’d like to formally introduce you to our story category, Breaking Bread. This is where (seemingly) unlikely friendships take off, where people from all walks of life come together to enjoy some company. In a time when so much energy is being put into polarizing and stoking divides, we believe highlighting stories of folks finding brightness in each other…
Naja is an eco-friendly and socially conscious lingerie brand co-founded by Catalina Girald and Golden Globe-winner Gina Rodriguez. We know what you’re thinking—another celeb out to get some good publicity. But here’s the thing, Gina and Catalina want to empower women and build an inclusive business at the same time. And with Naja, they’re actually doing it. “You don’t have…
A group of particularly unwavering students at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, started a blog in 2015 aiming to shift the national conversation around immigration and refugees to a positive note. First, they spoke with the folks in their own backyard: fellow students. The project is called ‘The New Americans Project’ (NAP) and each day – through Facebook and Instagram…
