Olúfémi O. Táíwò argues for a constructive form of reparations: distributive justice that looks to the past to construct a transition from the global racial empire we have today to the more just world we wish to arrive at tomorrow—and beyond.
Struck by the sudden and untimely death of her cousin, and distressed by the terrible political order, Samantha Harvey finds that she cannot sleep.
In 1933, shortly after Hitler took power, Charlotte Beradt started having nightmares.
Rollo May refutes the assertion that mental health is living without anxiety, proposing instead that anxiety is a necessary condition for creativity, intellect, and freedom.
Six people—four astronauts and two cosmonauts—may be among the last to circle the Earth.
In a glass-walled city ruled by the totalitarian One State, citizens have no privacy, no identity, no freedom, and no names: they each bear only a number.
“Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?”
Six children—three girls and three boys—play in a garden by the sea.
“A system that makes people work like zombies to produce useless, destructive, or self-destructive things has outlived its usefulness.”
Between 1978 and 1980, Audre Lorde wrote about her experience with breast cancer and mastectomy, connecting her trials and treatment to her own work and to the collective effort of liberation for all women.
Hannah Proctor visits the concept of burnout as the experience of political defeat—the disappointment, despair, and grief that emerges when one becomes aware that the political project they have committed themselves to may not succeed.
bell hooks approaches notions of self-care among communities of Black women, locating it within the work of grief, testimony, and reconciliation.