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The Hoodie's Place in Fear and Fashion
Alison Kinney
Video Premiere: Annie Moses Band - "Psalm of Life"
By Special To Utne Reader
Making Sense of the Deportation Debate
By Aviva Chomsky
The Peanut Allergy Epidemic
By Heather Fraser
In The Spirit of Nature: Cosmic Sisters on Ayahuasca
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Making Sense of the Deportation Debate
How Bill Clinton and Barack Obama laid the groundwork for Trump’s immigration policies.
The Peanut Allergy Epidemic
Explore how a small group of children affected by peanut allergies has exploded into a global epidemic.
In The Spirit of Nature: Cosmic Sisters on Ayahuasca
Through Ayahuasca, many people discover and remove obstacles to wellness within their own psyches and find peace, inspiration, clarity, revelation and even full-on paradigm shifts.
Fish To Eat Always, Never, and Sometimes
By Taras Grescoe, From Bottomfeeder
Surviving a Crocodile Attack
A near-death experience can reveal the truth about nature in an instant. But putting that insight into words can take years....
How to Write a Sex Scene
The 12-step program. Originally published in the March-April 2005 issue of Utne Reader…
The Most Human Art
Top ten reasons why we'll always need a good story. Originally published in the September-October 1997 issue of Utne Reader...
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Fish To Eat Always, Never, and Sometimes
By Taras Grescoe, From Bottomfeeder
Surviving a Crocodile Attack
By Val Plumwood, From The Book The Ultimate Journey
How to Write a Sex Scene
By Steve Almond
The Most Human Art
By Scott Russell Sanders, From The Georgia Review
Arts
Sounds Earthy
Wind and clouds inspire musical renditions.
Reggie Watts and the Comedy of Disruption
Comedian Reggie Watts uses disorienting performances to make his mark on the avant-garde branch of comedy known as anti-comedy.
Delia Derbyshire and the Acceptance of Musical Modernism
How Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop introduced avant-garde electronic music to mainstream British society in the 1960s.
The Ballad of Laura Nelson
Read this poem, based on four photographs of the lynching of Laura Nelson and her son in 1911 near Okemah, Oklahoma.
Community
Sounding the Climate Alarm
Over 310,000 people filled the streets for the People’s Climate March in New York City on Sept. 21, 2014. Freelance reporter/photographer Katie Moore was there and filed this report.
Equal Opportunity Employers
New employment opportunities for the disadvantaged and the disabled are seeing success.
The Steel Strike of 1937
The Memorial Day Massacre was only the beginning of the bloody “Little Steel Strike,” where unions and laborers protested the companies that refused to acknowledge their rights under The New Deal.
Can Someone Reinvent the Past to Claim Redemption?
Will society allow a convicted felon claim redemption after reimagining his past? Or are facts more powerful than who he has become?
Mind And Body
I Have Enough: A Spiritual Renegade’s Guide to the Good Life
Lama Marut explains that the quest for happiness starts with radical contentment: being truly satisfied with what we have.
This Is It
If you have been awaiting a change or looking for an opportunity then look no further than today.
Escape Velocity
Once we escape the pull of old stories and long held beliefs that no longer serve our common humanity, it will take very little effort to correct our course.
Defining Active Hope in a Changing World
The condition of our world is changing rapidly. By defining and adopting active hope we can deepen our awareness and work toward creating positive change.
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