Summer 2016 Utne Reader Table of Contents

By Staff
Published on June 24, 2016
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Table of Contents: Summer 2016

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Every One of Us: Equal

Letter to a Young Man
by Kevin Powell, special toUtne Reader

The Trans Revolution
Tracking the course of transgender rights and their liberating potential for us all
By Vanessa Baird, from New Internationalist

Repairing the Circle
What we can learn from the definitions of gender in Indigenous mythology
By Tomson Highway, from Masculindians


Inhumane Incarceration

No Place for Old Men
Texas prisons are filling up with the old and the ill—at enormous expense
by Dick J. Reavis

Solitary and Supermaxes
A closer look at the latest U.S. export to Brazil—the supermax prison system
By Baz Dreisinger, from Incarceration Nations


Exercising Compassion

Choosing Love
A mother explains how she has reacted to her son’s murder
By Scarlett Lewis, from Resurgence & Ecologist

On Course for Compassion
Mindfulness is not enough—we must develop our capacity for altruism
by Christine Toomy from Resurgence & Ecologist

What Keeps Us from Being Kinder to Ourselves?
Busting the five myths of self-compassion
by Kristin Neff, from Psychotherapy Networker


Emerging Ideas

Empowering Communities
Michael Sussman’s empowerment centers are helping communities band together and step up where social services fall short.
by Jessica Cohen, special toUtne Reader

Power Politics
Understanding the GOP’s civil war over off-the-grid energy
by Josiah Neely, from The American Conservative

The See Change
Huge advances in virtual reality are challenging the nature of experience
by Sam Scott, fromStanford


Gleanings 

Gone Astray
Values fall by the wayside for a humanitarian aid worker in Sri Lanka
by Satya Doyle Byock, fromOregon Humanities

Living with the Dead
Inside the underground tombs that have become shelter for war-ravaged Syrian civilians
by Francesa Borri, from Syrian Dust

Beautiful Monsters
Ruminating on life with a prosthetic limb
by Emily Rapp, from From Curlers to Chainsaws


Mindful Living

Naked: Triptych
Recognizing the grace of vulnerability
by Shannon Huffman Polson, from Ruminate Magazine

Moving the Goalposts
What Cleve Backster’s research into plant intelligence reveals about the attunement of living things
by Derrick Jensen from The Myth of Human Supremacy

Psychedelics and Systems Change
Prohibitionists are correct: The legalization of psychoactive drugs and psychedelics would indeed mean the end of society as we know it … and that’s a good thing.
by Charles Eisenstein, fromMaps Bulletin


Mixed Media

Folk Artists vs. the State
Truckhenge, Bishop Castle, the Garden of Eden, and the anti-authoritarianism of outsider art
by Reecy Pontiff, from Reason

Plus: Music, film, and book reviews


Editor’s Note
by Christian Williams 

Forward 
by Eric Utne

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