Shepherds and their flocks are integral to the history of European culture and ecology. Now, a new generation of pastoralists – from migrants escaping underpaid care work, to science graduates looking for tangible ways to protect the planet – are rewriting patriarchal traditions to preserve it for the future.
Microfinance loans were meant to offer a pathway out of poverty in countries like Nigeria, particularly for women. But as climate change makes weather patterns more unpredictable, the risk of falling into further debt falls onto the shoulders of women farmers who face not just erratic farming conditions but social stigma from default.
Medicinal wisdom is embedded in Indigenous Mixe languages. By sustaining their mother tongue and practices involving herbs and healing rituals, Mixe people keep alive a cosmovision in which they speak to Mother Earth.
“The people who face the most barriers are often those who need our care the most – and yet their voices are not the ones we hear in maternity care.”
How a solidarity-based sisterhood movement spread across rural India.
Is your desire to help more important than my consent? How #MeToo gave me a vocabulary to claim disability rights.
They thought it would take two weeks at most. Lovers from different countries, separated by a pandemic, fight for their rights as cross-border couples.
