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john a. powell: Opening to the Question of Belonging

By Krista Tippett — 2018

“Race is a little bit like gravity,” john powell says: experienced by all, understood by few. He is a refreshing, redemptive thinker who counsels all kinds of people and projects on the front lines of our present racial longings.

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The Persistent Joy of Black Mothers

Characterized throughout American history as symbols of crisis, trauma, and grief, these women consistently reject those narratives through world-making of their own.

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Leah Wright Rigueur
2021
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How I’m Raising My Daughter to Be 100 Percent, Unapologetically Indigenous

I want my daughter to see that an Indigenous way of life isn’t an alternative lifestyle but a priority. It is essential, then, that I return to the parenting principles of my ancestors and consciously integrate Indigenous kinship practices into her childhood.

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Andrea Landry
2021
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How the Immigrant Experience Shapes What I Teach My Children

I know that my biracial children will experience racism, sexism and intolerance. But I want them to be bold enough to not push people away and instead seek to understand through education. This is how we bring radical change through our children.

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Smita Malhotra
2017
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Issue #21: Motherhood and Belonging

Motherhood is an identity that calls for women to forgo belonging in their romantic relationships, professional aspirations, and even the public sphere in exchange for isolation and disconnection peppered with private praise drowned out by public critique and social exclusion.

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Vanessa Mason
2020
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Does a More Equal Marriage Mean Less Sex?

The very qualities that lead to greater emotional satisfaction in peer marriages, as one sociologist calls them, may be having an unexpectedly negative impact on these couples’ sex lives.

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Lori Gottlieb
2014
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The Realities of Raising a Kid of a Different Race

As transracial adoption becomes more common, here’s what every parent should know.

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Karen Valby
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In Search of Erotic Intelligence

Couples are having less sex these days than even in the famously uptight ’50s. Why?

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Esther Perel
2003
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