Pink Crime: How the Legal System Criminalizes Motherhood, Pregnancy and Queerness
Police and prosecutors tend to rely on stereotypes about “bad mothers”
The Indypendent
Eleanor J. Bader
Remembering a Forgotten Jewish Left
The book chronicles the history of the Bund, a Jewish progressive movement that flourished in the 20th century
“When We Are Kin”: A Vision of Black-Native Solidarity
Historian Kyle T. Mays fluxes between pragmatism and idealism while recounting a history and future of collaboration and conflict between Black and Native Americans
“Broken Land Dreams” Combines Magical Realism With Satire
A retired high school social worker and disillusioned Brooklynite joins forces with former students and peers to resist the Right in David Forbes’ piece of speculative fiction.
“Apple & Palm” Tells Appalachia’s Stories With Tenderness
A wide range of emotional responses form the crux of the stories in “Apple & Palm” and Henley’s writing is somehow both spare and detailed.
“The Coroner’s Silence” and Law Enforcement’s Cover-Up of Police Violence
“The Coroner’s Silence” is an important addition to our understanding of how law enforcement contributes to and justifies the abuse and neglect of those deemed unworthy of equal treatment, respect, and care.
Book Review: “Black Power, White Heat”
Echols delves into the ways that people of different races have collaborated throughout history, and homes in on cross-racial organizing during the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 70s.
The Trauma of Displacement from Palestine to Mexico in “Traces of Home”
The daughter of a Mexican mother and Palestinian father, Ghunim grew up in suburban Schaumburg, Illinois, where she and her brother had every material accoutrement of middle-class life. But something was missing.
“The Fine Line Between Horror, Hope” for Migrant Families in ‘Now We are Here’
Gabrielle Oliveira follows the lives of 12 immigrant families as they navigate life under Trump’s family separation policies, the pandemic, and assimilation into the United States.
“La Edad de Agua” Reveals the Price of Water
A group of activists—and grieving mothers—fights to understand the truth about where their water supply went, and how it may have become deadly.