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Paul Rice spent more than a decade working with coffee farmers in Nicaragua. He saw that foreign aid was creating dependency and that what farmers really need are tools to solve their own problems. In 1998, Paul created Fair Trade USA – they audit and certify U.S. companies to make sure their global suppliers pay farmers fair wages, give them safe…
Hank Pellissier writes about parenting, and his ideas about forgiveness in kids warmed our hearts. He talks about how teaching our tots forgiveness with their siblings will make them better people forever. These tips seem pretty applicable to us big kids too. Showing forgiveness doesn’t mean the behavior of the ‘wrongdoer’ is OK. It’s more about allowing a kid to go…
Do you know about the Pussyhat Project? Stay a minute and we’ll tell you. Your ears will probably want their own pink hat after they hear about it. January 21st is slated to be the Women’s March in Washington DC. The mission? To stand together, recognizing that defending the most marginalized among us is defending all of us. January is…
We remember actor and trans rights activist, Alexis Arquette, who died last year. Per Alexis’ request, the family members cheered upon his/her passing. Alexis inhabited many roles, both on and off the camera. Onstage, s/he stole the show in The Wedding Singer and Pulp Fiction, wowing us all with his/her gender-bending charisma. Off stage, you may know her/him as a…
We all know a new president is about to take the reigns. If it feels a bit like doomsday we get it, but plenty of badass Americans are keeping their head in the game to give us information and hold our leaders accountable. One of them is filmmaker Theo Rigby—certified ally of the people. Rigby and his team are spearheading a series…
SF-based painter and performance artist, Ana Teresa Fernández, donned her superhero costume – black cocktail dress and stilettos – and painted part of the US-Mexico border to look like the sky. “In Mexico we say, ‘It’s better to say you are sorry than to ask for permission,'” she told InTheMake. While she was painting the border, helicopters flew overhead and…
Walter Thompson always felt like an enigma. Growing up with a Mexican mom and an African-American dad in South LA, he sometimes just didn’t know which culture he belonged to. He pursued this lingering question mark in college and, most recently, through the creation of a popular Instagram account called Blaxicans Of LA – based on extensive research on multi-racial identity.…
As a kid, Gene Luen Yang’s mom bought him a Superman comic book. As an adult, Yang turned the whole game on its head with his graphic novel American Born Chinese. Instead of kryptonite and spandex, Gene wrote about growing up in America with immigrant parents and trying to find himself within a bicultural identity that has elements of his…
“My Word Is Free” is the name of a song by Emel Mathlouthi, which she sang at a street protest in Tunisia. Under Tunisia’s dictator Ben Ali, radio quickly banned the song, but not before it became an anthem for the Tunisian revolution during the Arab Spring. One of the many faces of resistance, Mathlouthi refused to play the ‘nice…
Carl Lentz is a pastor Hillsong Church in New York City and he has one message for all of us: Black Lives Matter. He received a lot of criticism in September for rejecting the counter-phrase––All Lives Matter. His response? It’s not that all lives don’t matter, it’s that “black lives apparently are worth LESS on our streets.” So we have…
