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In this piece, generations of community members involved with the Community Youth Center share their truth of finding a safe place to land and how their paths turned out differently than peers who didn't have the same access. 

It’s been some 80 years since 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated in internment camps across the Pacific Coast during World War II and 50 years after people of Japanese Descent came together to form the committee against Nihonmachi (the equivalent of Japan town) eviction, as Japanese Americans faced generations of discrimination and displacement even decades into the aftermath of the relocation and internment camp experience. It’s also been 50 years since the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California became a fixture in San Francisco. As the center celebrates its anniversary, singer, songwriter, dancer and author Nobuko Miyamoto is bringing a performance inspired by her latest album 120,000 to San Francisco on August 5, 2023.

Gina Brillon has something for everyone! If you've ever stayed in the wrong place or with the wrong person for too long, had a conflict with literally anyone, felt out of place in a gym, or grappled with some of the woos of marriage, singleness, parenthood or any aspect of your identity, Gina's got something for you. She uses her own life experiences as her content platform and tells stories that are so relatable that you can't help but laugh. If therapy is too expensive or you just need to supplement it with a little something extra--go see Gina Brillon's show!

From a mass shooting that claimed the lives of children and educators to the expulsion of two black legislatures and the reinstatement of them to an uptick in transphobia and acts of white supremacy, the East Nashtivists, an activist group in Nashville has plenty of work to do in fighting for a more just state and working toward a more just world.

Grace Wegener weighs in on the state of affairs in Nashville and on why she's staying in Tennessee for the long haul. 

In working toward a more just world, we sometime find that for every two steps forward, we take one step backward. The good news is that we're still a step ahead of where we started from. As educational communities are doing more to make sure that all are included no matter what gender, racial or religious identity they may have, there is an increasing amount of transphobic rhetoric and misinformation being spread. This interviewee identifies as Christian, black and queer and uses he/they pronouns and is standing tall and proud in his/their intersectional identity. I'm sharing this story with their permission because stories are the one thing that offer the capacity to touch both hearts and minds.

Angela Harrelson, aunt of George Perry Floyd and author of Lift Your Voice: How the Murder of my Nephew George Floyd Changed the World, Wanda Johnson, mother of Oscar Grant and founder of the Oscar Grant Foundation and other moms weigh in about their experience as aunts and mothers to adult children who have lost their lives to police violence. 

Angela Harrelson, aunt of George Perry Floyd speaks her truth and illuminates the way her nephew, whom the world came to know posthumously, was. 

Kelechi Ubozoh speaks about her book We've Been Too Patient and Ann Garrison reports on the impacts of U.S. drone strikes in Somalia.