Just like birth doulas, gender doulas support people at all stages of their gender journey.

YES! Magazine

Seniors can be evicted due to unsafe clutter. A San Francisco program is helping them clean up and stay housed.

San Francisco Chronicle

MindSite News

The Pointer Sisters were four women from Oakland whose songs were everywhere in the 70s and 80s. Reporter Celeste Hamilton Dennis brings us a story about why the love for the Pointer Sisters is still going strong today.

KALW

Undocumented people who want to become therapists and care for the mental health needs of their community face many obstacles. But in California, it’s at least possible.

MindSite News and palabra

Jonestown survivor John Cobb has tended the monument at Evergreen Cemetery for over a decade. He hopes more people will visit.

Oaklandside

Many Black women say their pregnancy-related concerns are dismissed by doctors, undermining their mental health and contributing to higher death rates. Doulas aim to change all that.

MindSite News, USA Today, and Capital B

Hair stylists are often a shoulder to cry on for their clients. The Self-i.s.h. Society is taking it further by offering onsite therapy, healing circles, massage, and more.

Oaklandside

Dentistry and the medical profession have long been siloed. But eight years ago, Asian Health Services in Oakland pioneered a new practice: screening dental patients for depression.

Mindsite News and Oaklandside

Peters Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Columbus partners with Alter, a nurse-led program in Atlanta, to help support church members living with dementia.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Sakhone Lasaphangthong spent 20 years in state prison. Now he’s helping to increase public safety in the neighborhood through a nonprofit, Family Bridges.

Oaklandside

“Everyone deserves a well-cooked meal”: Community Kitchens’ volunteers stock town fridges with love.

Oaklandside

Led by longtime residents, the project is helping to bridge the past and present in one of Oakland’s most quickly changing areas.

Oaklandside

In a recent survey, half the girls said they plan to major or minor in computer science.

NextCity

Many essential workers are parents, too. So as the child care crisis continues, community activists are finding creative ways to support them.

YES! Magazine

A LGBT organization runs a hotline to help their community during COVID lockdowns.

Talk Poverty

A new directory puts a focus on a networked response for a person's entire set of needs.

NextCity

Guyanese-American curator Grace Aneiza Ali talks about her exhibition Liminal Space at Harlem’s Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute in 2017, in which artists from Guyana and its Diaspora explore migration.

Contemporary And Magazine

For people whose bodies are often the target of public scrutiny, representation in something as simple as a stock photo can be revolutionary.

YES! Magazine

Judith Rizzio has spent a lifetime on the frontlines of feminism. She thinks there’s nothing more radical than women of a certain age declaring fashion is for them, too.

Narratively

Ms. spoke with Ali about the importance of art and language in shaping how we think—and why “women’s work” should be expanded to include acts of resistance.

Ms. Magazine

A Portland program is helping senior citizen artists connect more with their community and even make extra money. It could be a boon for Philly’s growing senior population.

Philadelphia Citizen

The Confess Project brings together men and boys in barbershops across the South to talk mental health.

YES! Magazine

At this art museum run out of an elementary school, the kids are curators and docents.

Artsy