Eleanor Bader

1 week ago | progressive.org | Eleanor Bader

Members of Sampsa, a four-person political art collective based in Helsinki, Finland, are both defiant and a bit worried. The pseudonymously named group, formed by self-described “renegade architects” fifteen years ago, fears that the United States’ Take It Down Act, passed by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump on May 19, could make them a target due to the overtly violent and sexual imagery in their work.

1 week ago | znetwork.org | Eleanor Bader

Homelessness among newborns, infants, and toddlers skyrocketed from 2022 to 2023, impacting 446,996 newborns, infants, and toddlers, according to a new report. SchoolHouse Connection, in partnership with Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan, found a 23 percent increase in the number of unhoused children under the age of 3 since 2021. Their situations were varied.

1 week ago | msmagazine.com | Eleanor Bader

Thirty years ago, a community health center run by the Red Cross relocated to the La Gloria area of Isla Mujeres, a tiny island off the Yucatan Peninsula. It quickly became more than a clinic, a place where “islenas,”primarily  Indigenous women, could congregate to talk and share stories. Some brought craftwork to do while chatting—including embroidery, knitting and crocheting—while others brought bags of beads to make intricately woven bracelets, earrings and necklaces.

1 week ago | truthout.org | Eleanor Bader |Samantha Borek

Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. Homelessness among newborns, infants, and toddlers skyrocketed from 2022 to 2023, impacting 446,996 newborns, infants, and toddlers, according to a new report. SchoolHouse Connection, in partnership with Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan, found a 23 percent increase in the number of unhoused children under the age of 3 since 2021.

2 weeks ago | indypendent.org | Eleanor Bader |Fibonacci Blue

In From the Clinics to the Capitol: How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary, Carol Mason, a professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Kentucky, draws a through line that connects both domestic and international anti-abortion activism to an ascendant network of white supremacist, Christian nationalist and authoritarian movements.