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Covers from Exponent II over the years.
Posted inDecember 2024: Land as Reparations

The passion of the Mormon feminist

by Leah Sottile December 1, 2024December 4, 2024

For 50 years, ‘Exponent II‘ has made the LDS Church squirm. It has no plans to stop.

Posted inSeptember 2024: When Migrants Go Missing

What a 9,000-mile butterfly migration taught me about queer survival

by Miles W. Griffis September 1, 2024August 30, 2024

‘Painted ladies’ go through extraordinary journeys, kindred to that of many LTBTQ+ people.

Posted inArticles

Endurance and the spirit of wrestling in the West

by Michael Copperman August 20, 2024August 20, 2024

Remembering local wrestling hero Kenny Cox.

Kyle Wheeler at Dancing Swallows Big Gay Bird Sanctuary and Memorial Pond in Chehalis, Washington.
Posted inJune 2024: The Idea of Wilderness

Hate groups in western Washington echo the past

by Leah Sottile June 1, 2024June 17, 2024

The bigotry displayed when white supremacists disrupted a Pride celebration in Centralia repeats a pattern that dates back to 1919.

Posted inMay 2024: A River Returns

An all-lady seal-hunting crew

by Laureli Ivanoff May 1, 2024October 30, 2024

Seeking sustenance from the sea.

Rikki Longino, founder of Mobile Moon, in the garden at the Moonstead last summer.
Posted inIssues

A Salt Lake Valley collective brings gardening and queer communities together

by Brooke Larsen April 29, 2024April 30, 2024

At the Mobile Moon Co-op, LGBTQ+ folks find a safe space to nurture land and one another.

Posted inArticles

California’s transgender Latinx people find refuge and empowerment in community

by Zaydee Sanchez March 29, 2024March 29, 2024

‘We are beginning to have that safety that we always desired.’

Posted inMarch 2024: Fertile Ground

An ode to lesbians who showed the way

by Morgan Lieberman and Emily Withnall March 1, 2024March 11, 2024

The photography series ‘Hidden Once, Hidden Twice’ highlights women who serve as a model for others.

At an intimate campout in Anza Borrego Desert State Park, 1994, Harry Hay expounds his vision of personal empowerment centered in the natural world.
Posted inMarch 2024: Fertile Ground

The desert’s Radical Faeries

by Miles W. Griffis March 1, 2024October 8, 2024

How a gathering of gay men in the Sonoran Desert started a worldwide movement rooted in nature.

Posted inArticles

The great Clean Girl vanishing act

by Caelan Reeves February 23, 2024February 28, 2024

The search for an ‘invisible’ perfume is rooted in frontier aesthetics.

Posted inJanuary 11, 2024: The Creatures in Our Midst

Chef Preeti Mistry is changing the structure of food and fine dining

by Madhushree Ghosh January 24, 2024February 5, 2024

The award-winning, celebrity culinarian celebrates hybridness in life and cuisine.

An illustration featuring textiles from (left to right) the Navajo, Zuni and Salish tribes.
Posted inArticles

Solutions to the gender pay gap for Native women may live at home

by Chabeli Carrazana and The 19th November 30, 2023January 31, 2024

Entrepreneurship alongside one’s caregiving responsibilities can unlock opportunities and more income.

Posted inDecember 1, 2023: December 2023

How the New Mexico whiptail became a gay icon

by Miles W. Griffis November 27, 2023February 1, 2024

All members of the lizard species are female and reproduce asexually through a process called parthenogenesis.

Freeskier Lily Bradley in the new ski film, “People Like Us.”
Posted inArticles

Pro skier Lily Bradley disrupts mountain culture in new queer ski film

by Ollie Hancock November 2, 2023January 31, 2024

In ‘People Like Us,’ LGBTQ+ skiers take center stage.

Posted inSeptember 1, 2023: Food Justice

What the gray jay taught me about myself

by Miles W. Griffis September 1, 2023January 24, 2024

The authenticity and playfulness of the naughty, queer bird is something to celebrate.

Posted inJuly 1, 2023: Waiting for Water

‘I will grip onto this space as hard as I can because we need it’

by Ryan Dorgan July 1, 2023January 24, 2024

#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.

Posted inJuly 1, 2023: Waiting for Water

Let’s talk about Indian romance novels

by Taylar Dawn Stagner July 1, 2023January 24, 2024

If you’ve ever gawked in disbelief at a hunky white man in redface, this one’s for you.

Posted inJuly 1, 2023: Waiting for Water

Horse girls: The wild and fearless

by Nina McConigley June 30, 2023January 24, 2024

An author reflects on an encounter in Wyoming’s Red Desert and motherhood.

Posted inJune 1, 2023: Seen and Unseen

The many legacies of Letitia Carson

by Jaclyn Moyer June 1, 2023January 24, 2024

An effort to memorialize the homestead of one of Oregon’s first Black farmers illuminates the land’s complicated history.

Posted inMay 1, 2023: Reemergence

Tenacious specimens of the Grand Canyon

by Melissa L. Sevigny May 1, 2023January 24, 2024

In the 1930s, two women risked their lives to record a scientific survey of the region’s plants.

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