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Why the Drag Ban in Tennessee Is so Dangerous for the LGBTQ+ Community

The ban is set to take effect July 1—and ramifications stand to be huge.

By Sara Elizabeth Grossman

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Professional Herbalists Explain Why Social Media Isn’t the Place To Discuss Herbal Abortions

It can potentially endanger herbalists and the practice at large.

By Sam Manzella

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What To Know About the Just-Approved $8B Willow Project's Potential Impact on the Planet

The oil-drilling venture could extract 600 million barrels of oil.

By Hannah Singleton

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How the Overturning of Roe v. Wade Stands To Financially Harm Women

By Amy Wilkinson

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For Padma Lakshmi, Change-Making Is Personal

By Abbey Stone

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America's Gun Violence Is a Public Health Crisis, Not Just an 'Unspeakable' Tragedy

By Kells McPhillips

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Where Can I Donate Food (and Other Items) To Help My Community?

By Emily Laurence

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How the Nation’s Only Indigenous Abortion Fund Is Expanding Reproductive Justice for a Community Long Denied It

By Erica Sloan

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Here Are the States Where Abortion Rights Are Literally on the Ballot This Year

By Jessie Van Amburg

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The Total Lunar Eclipse Is Giving *Full Chaos* Just in Time for Election Day—Here’s What Astrologers Want You To Know

By Erica Sloan

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OUI the People Took Inspo From Latin America’s Abortion Rights Movement for Its Newest Drop—And All Proceeds Go To Help Reproductive Rights

By Kells McPhillips

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The Deep Psychological Toll of Being Displaced From Your Home During a Hurricane

By Erica Sloan

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Idaho Universities Will Stop Referring Students for Birth Control in Wake of Near-Total Ban on Abortion

By Kells McPhillips

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Flint Now Has Clean Water—But 1 in 4 Residents Reported PTSD Symptoms Years After the Crisis Ended

By Erica Sloan

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No Water Coming from the Taps, Can't Flush Toilets, Boiling for Safety—The Water Emergency Happening in Jackson, Mississippi, Is a Huge Health Crisis

By Kells McPhillips

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Service Has Always Been at the Heart of Abortion Care. Here's How the Brigid Alliance Is Evolving in a Post-Roe World

By Kells McPhillips

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What President Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Means for You—And Who Qualifies

By Jessie Van Amburg

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I’m Disabled and Proud—But Society’s Views of Disability Made It Hard for Me To Feel That Way

By Akilah Cadet

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One of the Most Underrated Victims of Climate Change Could Be Your Sleep

By Erica Sloan

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What You Need To Know About Access to Contraception in a Post-Roe America

By Erica Sloan

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Celebrating and Embracing Queerness Can Enhance Spirituality and All Forms of Identity

By Rachel Lang

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We Need More Trans Representation in Media So More—and More Authentic—Trans Stories Can Be Told

By Hannah Schneider

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Yoga Can and Should Become More Inclusive to Queer Folks

By Kells McPhillips

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9 Ways To Celebrate Pride Month All Year Long

By Rachel Wright

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How Queer Community Helps ALOK and Rachel Ricketts Feel Joy and Process Grief

By Hannah Schneider

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Overturning Roe v. Wade Will Disproportionately Impact Historically Excluded Communities

By Akilah Cadet

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Feeling Numb, Angry, or Overwhelmed by Roe v. Wade News? Here's a 10-Step Action Plan To Take Care of Yourself

By Erica Sloan

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These States Are Most Impacted by the Overturning of Roe v. Wade

By Tonya Russell

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How, Exactly, To Make Your Voice Heard About the Overturning of Roe v. Wade

By Kells McPhillips

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Here's What You Need To Know About Oklahoma's Proposed Abortion Ban

By Kells McPhillips

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How Ketanji Brown Jackson Joining the Supreme Court Could Impact Your Well-Being

By Erica Sloan

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How To Best Support Ukrainian Civilians From Afar Right Now, According to Humanitarian-Aid Experts

By Erica Sloan

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With the United States About To Have Its First-Ever Pluto Return, We Can Expect Radical Change on the Horizon

By Erica Sloan

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When We Ban Books, We Severely Restrict Children's Ability To Learn About Different People and Themselves

By Simone Scully

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A Lot of Employees Prefer Remote Work, But for Many People With Disabilities, Having the Option Is Crucial

By Emily Laurence

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All Trans and Non-Binary Kids Need and Deserve Access to Puberty Blockers

By Gabrielle Kassel

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Wellness Without Community Care Won't Make Us Truly Well

By Sara Weinreb

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How One Afro-Latina Is Expanding Health-Care Fluency for Communities Failed By the U.S. Medical System

By Ivelyse Andino

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There Are No Standards of Care for Pregnant People in Prison, and That Needs To Change

By Mara Santilli

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Air Pollution Kills 13 People Every Minute, According to the World Health Organization

By Kara Jillian Brown

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Humble Bloom Is Working To Cultivate the Cannabis Community As Legalization Expands

By Kara Jillian Brown

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The Most Restrictive Abortion Law in the U.S. Just Went Into Effect

By Francesca Krempa

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Paralympian Mallory Weggemann Is Looking To Smash More Than Records—She’s Out To Topple Bias Against People With Disabilities

By Abbey Stone

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7 Meaningful Ways To Help Survivors of the West Coast Wildfires

By Rebecca Norris

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New York Is Sending Mental Health Professionals (Not Police) in Response to Certain 911 Calls—And It's Working

By Kells McPhillips

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Proposed Federal Decriminalization of Marijuana Likely Won't Pass and Doesn't Go Far Enough

By Kara Jillian Brown

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The Cherokee Nation Now Offers Mental Wellness Leave to Government Employees—Here's What We All Can Learn

By Kristi Eaton

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Why Financial Health Is a Wellness Problem Particular to the Latinx Community

By Janel Martinez

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Harm-Reduction Services To Get Federal Funding—And That Could Save Lives

By Kara Jillian Brown

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Allyship Is More Than Attending a Parade in June—Here's How To Show Up for the LGBTQ+ Community Now and Always

By Saanya Ali

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Making Juneteenth a Federal Holiday Does Nothing To Right the Wrongs of Systemic Racism

By Kara Jillian Brown

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I Got The Vaccine Despite Having a Distrust in Medicine As an African American Woman—Here's Why

By Yasmine Jameelah

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The USDA’s Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer Program Is Expanding to Feed Millions Of Children This Summer

By Elsie Yang

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Meet Chanté Davis, the Black Youth Activist Forging the Way for More Inclusive Climate Activism

By Lola Méndez

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Period Trauma Is Real—And It’s Harming the Health of Millions of Black Menstruators

By Erin Bunch

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Who Should Be Required To Get Vaccinated? An Epidemiologist Breaks Down What You Need To Know About Vaccine Mandates

By Erin Bunch

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'How I'm Fighting for Racial Justice as a WNBA Player'

By Jantel Lavender

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Water Stress Is the Ongoing Crisis You Can't Ignore

By Erin Bunch

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How the Biden Administration Is Working To Make Health Care More Accessible for Transgender Patients

By Kara Jillian Brown

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How India's COVID-19 Crisis Is Exposing the Country's Inequities in Health Care Access

By Roohi Sahajpal

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8 Women of Color Who Are Working to Dismantle Racism in Wellness Culture

By Johanna Ferreira

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6 COVID-19 Vaccine Myths To Stop Believing Now, According to Infectious Disease Experts

By Kayla Hui

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The Verdict in Derek Chauvin's Trial Highlights the Painful Difference Between Justice and Accountability

By Kara Jillian Brown

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Many Corporations Are Announcing Sustainability Initiatives—But How Can We Hold Them Accountable?

By Erin Bunch

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Unraveling the Tangled Web of QAnon Conspiracies and Wellness Devotees: An Interview With 'Conspirituality' Podcast Host Matthew Remski

By Erin Bunch

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For Those Who Were There, Stigma Worsens the 'Invisible' Mental Health Fallout From the Capitol Riot

By Erin Bunch

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Why Everyday Sustainability Activism Starts With You, the Individual

By Diandra Marizet

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Black Adults Without Children and People With Disabilities Most Likely to Lose Food Assistance When SNAP Work Requirements Resume

By Kayla Hui

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Bystander Intervention Training Teaches You What To Do If You Witness an Attack

By Kara Jillian Brown

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13 Answers to FAQs About the Second Dose of COVID-19 Vaccines

By Erin Bunch

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This Is What You Need To Know About the Inevitable 'Vaccine Passports'

By Kara Jillian Brown

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Poet Ra Avis Wants You To Understand That Formerly Incarcerated People Are Just Like Everyone Else

By Kara Jillian Brown

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Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine Is Simply the Best Person for Job—Here's Why

By Erin Bunch

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Why Saying Chinese Food Is 'Unhealthy' Is a Recipe for Racism

By Samantha Symonds

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This Illinois City Just Approved the First Reparations Program for Black Residents—Here's How It Works

By Kara Jillian Brown

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Why So Many Asian American Seniors Struggle With Food Insecurity

By Seraphina Seow

COVID-19 Survivor's Guilt Is Coming, If It's Not Already Here

By Katherine McLaughlin

We Can, And Should, Start Healing From Our Pandemic-Related Trauma

By Gia Miller

Deb Haaland Promises Environmental Justice as Secretary of the Interior

By Kayla Hui

Despite Being Vital in the Fight Against COVID-19, Undocumented Immigrants Are Being Left Out of...

By Emily Laurence

Will It Get Even Harder To Find Vaccine Appointment Slots After May 1? Here's What's...

By Kara Jillian Brown

Texas Ruling Removes Planned Parenthood From Medicaid—That's a Big Problem

By Kayla Hui

Why the Modern Wellness Industry Should Get Behind Prison Abolition

By Natasha Baker

Anti-Racism Work Requires Rest—Here's How 4 Social Justice Activists Practice Self Care

By Kayla Hui

Why Access to Safe, Clean Water Is a Wellness Issue

By Seraphina Seow

How To Keep Yourself Safe From COVID-19 Risk When Your State Won't

By Erin Bunch

Why the Wellness Community Needs To Show More Solidarity With the Indian Farmers Protests

By Roohi Sahajpal

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