If you’ve ever gawked in disbelief at a hunky white man in redface, this one’s for you.
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Posted inJuly 1, 2023: Waiting for Water
Horse girls: The wild and fearless
An author reflects on an encounter in Wyoming’s Red Desert and motherhood.
Posted inJune 1, 2023: Seen and Unseen
The many legacies of Letitia Carson
An effort to memorialize the homestead of one of Oregon’s first Black farmers illuminates the land’s complicated history.
Posted inMay 1, 2023: Reemergence
Tenacious specimens of the Grand Canyon
In the 1930s, two women risked their lives to record a scientific survey of the region’s plants.
Posted inJune 1, 2023: Seen and Unseen
The flamboyance of wildflowers
My Pansy Craze Expedition commemorated an important era of queer culture before it was trampled like a super bloom.
Posted inApril 1, 2023: The Path Forward
A deer camp for all
Hunting mentor DeAnna Bublitz breaks down stereotypes.
Posted inApril 1, 2023: The Path Forward
Navigating the new health-care deserts
Post-Roe, startups help those seeking abortions shrink travel distances and carbon emissions.
Posted inMarch 1, 2023: Moving Parts
The 90-foot sentinel of Butte, Montana
What does a statue dedicated to mothers reveal about women’s rights?
Posted inFebruary 1, 2023: The Reveal
Tending a remnant of home
How a glass shelf connected a woman to what mattered most.
Posted inJanuary 1, 2023: Ripple Effects
What if Indigenous women ran controlled burns?
The Karuk Tribe’s first-of-its-kind training seeks to extinguish hypermasculinity in firefighting culture.
Posted inJanuary 1, 2023: Ripple Effects
Growing up queer in Colorado Springs
In the wake of the Club Q mass shooting, reflections on an adolescence in the ‘Evangelical Vatican.’
Posted inArticles
Should we worry about 8 billion people?
Breaking down population’s role in the environmental impact equation.
Posted inDecember 1, 2022: Beyond Illusion
What emerges at low tide
Queer history is all around us, even if it is obscured from sight.
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Poets reflect on the Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs
A conversation with award-winning poet Nico Wilkinson.
Posted inNovember 1, 2022: The Futures of Conservation
A California fire department forges a new generation of conservation practitioners
In wealthy, segregated Marin County, a pioneering recruitment program breaks down barriers to the firefighting profession
Posted inOctober 1, 2022: Making Refuge
Recollecting life on the edge of the prairie
Portraits of queer life and landscape in rural Washington.
Posted inArticles
Where anti-LGBTQ+ politics intersect with housing the homeless
A new report shows Southern Oregon’s largest homeless shelter is led by a conversion-therapy proponent.
Posted inArticles
Duwamish Tribe sues Interior in federal court, alleging sex discrimination
After decades of back-and-forth with federal authorities, the matrilineal descendants of Chief Seattle want federal recognition, once and for all.
Posted inJune 1, 2022: A Legacy of Weapons and War
How to choose a pronoun
The land does not care what parts of you are male or female.
Posted inArticles
Indigenous women say ‘no’ to extraction for sustainable future
Women from the frontlines of extraction projects, and the boardrooms that fund them, came together to call for the end of extraction to ensure a sustainable future.