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Humility: The Missing Virtue?
Does a flourishing life (and world) depend on humility?
What is humility? It’s not humiliation, nor groveling, nor subordination. It manifests in…
Health And Justice: The Path Of Liberation Through medicine
Rupa Marya on Decolonizing Medicine
https://youtu.be/GyymzSE0VE8
Health visionary Rupa Marya, Associate Professor of Medicine at UC San Francisco and…
The Bio-Cultural Conflict And The Rights Of Children
Robin Grille and Lisa Reagan at the Museum of Motherhood, NYC
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My Grandma Is Not A Hippie
Editor's Note: This essay was originally written in honor of my grandmother's 100th birthday in 2018. It was updated upon her passing in May 2022, with…
MilkDrunk, A Play: The “Vagina Monologues” For Breastfeeding…
"MilkDrunk is to breastfeeding what The Vagina Monologues is to women's sexuality: a curtain-ripping revelation on a world hidden in plain sight. MilkDrunk's…
Midwife Jennie Joseph: Undermining A Deadly Maternal Health System
Deeply horrified by the American medical model's treatment of pregnant women and babies when she arrived in the United States in the 80s, British-trained…
How Climate Change Will Shift Our Consciousness: An Interview With…
How will climate change impact our human consciousness? How are consciousness-raising movements like #MeToo bringing to light enculturated trauma that will…
March for Moms, #MeToo, Birth Trauma, And Ending Medical Model Patriarchy
Dawn Thompson of Improving Birth and Lisa Reagan, Kindred's editor, connect the dots between America's failed maternal health, the patriarchal medical…
Should Black Women Lean In? Or Lean Out? Muffy Mendoza’s TED Talk
Should Black Women Lean In? Or Lean Out?
https://youtu.be/TXcEYHTdhl4
At heart, she is an advocate for Black mothers who believes Black parents can be…
Self-Actualization: Are You on the Path?
What does it mean to be self-actualizing?
In college, I remember being impressed with the description of self-actualization—it inspired in me a life goal to…