Evette Dionne

1 week ago | yesmagazine.org | Eli Erlick |Evette Dionne

The narrative that we are in the midst of the first generation of trans children is so omnipresent as to be ambient. It is repeated ad nauseam in the media, online, by doctors, and by parents. Trans children, these various gatekeepers say in unison, have no history at all. [. . .] What happens if this consensus turns out to be baseless? —Jules Gill-Peterson, 2017In 1939, the sleepy British town of Great Yarmouth rumbled awake. National media picked up the story of two brothers, Mark and David Ferrow.

3 weeks ago | yesmagazine.org | Evette Dionne

Why you can trust us Activists in eastern Kentucky are forcing the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to go back to the drawing board mere months after the federal agency signed off on a Record of Decision approving a 500-acre site in Roxana, Kentucky, as the location for a $500 million medium-security prison. On Jan.

3 weeks ago | yesmagazine.org | Evette Dionne

Why you can trust us There is a popular saying among organizers across movements: “They wanted to bury us, but they didn’t know we were seeds.” From the seed, I arrive at the mangrove.

3 weeks ago | yesmagazine.org | Evette Dionne

Why you can trust us “It was a big one-bedroom apartment. It had these beautiful views all the way down, like you could see the entire L.A. Basin,” says Katie Clark of her home of 15 years, which burned in the Eaton fire in January 2025.

Jan 30, 2025 | yesmagazine.org | Evette Dionne

Dear Beloved Murmurations Readers,I am writing with an exciting update about this column. Since we launched “Murmurations” in 2021, we have collectively survived, witnessed, and lost loved ones, species, and land to floods, drought, fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, pandemics, genocide, a rise in fascism, and so many variations of cancer and disease.