An invitation to appear in a PSA prompts Minda Honey to reflect on the responsibilities of safe sex, and her imperfect past.
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Trans, Homeless, and Turning Tricks to Survive
Homeless trans teens: America’s most vulnerable population.
Posted inCrime, Nonfiction, Quotes
Bringing Up the Bodies: How NecroSearch Helps Police to Locate the Dead
Why do they volunteer their time in such a grisly enterprise? To bring closure to the families of the dead.
Posted inFeature
Why I Lied to Everyone in High School About Knowing Karate
As a teen, Jabeen Akhtar discovered that trying to be an exceptional immigrant can make you do stupid things.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The High Cost of Cheap Fashion
An expose on slave-like working conditions for undocumented garment workers, right here in the U.S.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Public Banking Goes to Pot
Traditional banks won’t deal with money from California’s $7 billion legal weed industry, so some people in Oakland are rallying to create the first new public bank in a century. So what’s a public bank exactly?
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes
Nestlé Is Sucking the World’s Aquifers Dry
The multinational corporation is gradually privatizing a natural resource.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Departing U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera Looks Forward to Next Bend in ‘The Road’
Juan Felipe Herrera, the self-described “poet of the people,” reflects on his two-year term as America’s Poet Laureate. The son of migrant farm workers from California’s rural interior, Herrera is the second Fresno poet appointed to the position, after Philip Levine. What’s with Fresno? Herrera calls Fresno the poetry capital of the world. That’s what.
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In Tijuana, The Recently Deported Are Trapped In Purgatory
In southern California, ICE is deporting people of Mexican descent who have lived most of their lives in the U.S. and feel only a vague connection to the Mexico they’re sent “back” to. “Trump says he’s up there removing criminals,” José Armando Guerrero said from a Tijuana hotel. “I was working. I’m not a criminal.”
