Sunnivie Brydum

Seattle

Editorial Director at YES! Magazine

Editorial Director @yesmagazine. Formerly of @FreeSpeechTV, @RDispatches, @TheAdvocateMag. Opinions my own. She/They

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Articles

What Is Progress 2025?

Aug 19, 2024 | yesmagazine.org | Sunnivie Brydum

Elections aren’t just about choosing representatives—they’re also about declaring collective priorities. Project 2025 explicitly intends to reshape the federal government in order to decimate civil and human rights, crush environmental protections, and gut employment and consumer protections in favor of expanded corporate influence and privatization. This moment calls for an equally bold response that centers human and planetary needs—and uplifts the solutions that make them possible.
As Summer Swelters, Can Workers Get Heat Protections?

Jul 1, 2024 | yesmagazine.org | Sunnivie Brydum

Why you can trust us Summer in California is here in the Inland Empire, a Southern stretch of the state that’s become a hub of warehousing, packaging, and shipping. Outside the hulking warehouses that line the area’s freeways, a steady rumble of trucks contributes to poor air quality and constant noise pollution in surrounding communities of color.
Just the Facts: This Is Gender-Affirming Care

May 23, 2024 | yesmagazine.org | Sunnivie Brydum |Jacob Anderson-Minshall

This Is Gender-Affirming CareShare Why you can trust us Transgender and nonbinary people have , but today’s efforts to eliminate access to this medically necessary care are unprecedented. Skeptics claim gender-affirming care for trans people is experimental and dangerous—but that is false. Gender-affirming care for trans people is based on 40 years of clinical research, with best practices regulated by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).
Murmurations: Flying Into the Spring Equinox

Mar 19, 2024 | yesmagazine.org | Sham-e-Ali Nayeem |Sunnivie Brydum

A note from adrienne maree brown: Sham-e-Ali Nayeem is a Muslim poet who has recently released a gorgeous poetry film project called Moti Ka Sheher. Sham-e-Ali is also a long-term supporter of arts and emergent strategy. It isn’t in the wings or the flying where freedom takes placeit is in the quiet cosmos of your unbecoming. In a case of silk your essence is protected while imaginal discs shiftmolt into mystery, cave in. May a song be an anchor while your body falls into itself.
The Complexity of Connection

Mar 4, 2024 | yesmagazine.org | Sunnivie Brydum

The Complexity of ConnectionShare I spent Christmas Eve 2023 isolated in the spare room of a borrowed Southern California home, hoping to keep my 3-year-old and her 100-year-old great-grandmother safe from COVID-19, which I had tested positive for that morning. As I nursed my prescription cough syrup and self-pity, I posted to Instagram, seeking advice for my first encounter with the virus.
Murmurations: Making Space for Intentional Adaptation

Jan 30, 2024 | yesmagazine.org | Sunnivie Brydum

A note from adrienne maree brown: Ebony Ross (one of the co-authors of this piece) is at the Conflict Transformation Fund, working hard to ensure that resources are centered in Black, Indigenous and people of color communities, to allow us to handle our conflicts for ourselves and have somatic practices that feel aligned and indigenous to us.
The Internet Has Always Been Trans

Jan 29, 2024 | yesmagazine.org | Sunnivie Brydum

Why you can trust us When I was in high school in the late ’90s, my father borrowed my laptop—a gift from a family friend—while the browser was open to susans.org, a peer support website founded by Susan Larson in 1995 with advice articles, forums, and other resources primarily focused on trans women.
YES! Takes a Break

Dec 18, 2023 | yesmagazine.org | Sunnivie Brydum

Dear Readers, It’s been a big year for YES! We published more than 300 stories online, four beautiful print magazines—“Growth,” “Thirst,” “Endings,” and “Elders”—and, thanks to the addition of YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali, stepped into broadcast media in a bold way, bringing YES!’s unique brand of solutions journalism to television and radio audiences nationwide.
Murmurations: Moving From Punishment to Accountability

Nov 22, 2023 | yesmagazine.org | Sunnivie Brydum

A note from adrienne maree brown: Kung Li Sun is an organizer who is always thinking of how to create radical collaborative spaces, from her Queer Fit radical health practice, to collective writing space, to the alternative history she’s written for us as the author of Begin the World Over.
Murmurations: Loneliness As Fermentation

Sep 28, 2023 | yesmagazine.org | Sunnivie Brydum

A note from adrienne maree brown: chelsea cleveland is a Black liberation facilitator who dreams of tarot decks and generates quirky cultural engagement strategies. They help me think about disability, loneliness, and family. Amid a pandemic that had forced the world into isolation, I found myself drawn to the story of Julian of Norwich, a 14th-century anchorite who willingly embraced solitude as a path to spiritual enlightenment.