Artist Cristian Mera Builds Collages That Feel Both Timeless and Immediate
Meet the Calgary-based artist shaping collage through memory, music and an instinct for composition.
Civic Discourse with Citizen Tripp | Episode 10: The Conversation
How people take action, build connection, shared meaning, momentum for change.
Motion, Marked by Hand: Step Inside Natz Blank’s Living Frames
Meet the Hamburg-based artist shaping animation through material, process and the visible trace of making.
How to Get Into Local Politics: A Practical Guide to Power, Process and Impact
The real pathways, structures and steps required to move from interested citizen to active participant in local government.
Retro-Futurist Artist Roger Mattos Creates Intimacy on a Cosmic Scale
Meet the São Paulo artist building cinematic collages that hold love and longing in suspension.
The Trump Administration Is Quietly Destroying Our National Forests
For the first time in 120 years, the U.S. Forest Service is being gutted. A handout to oligarchs, its HQ will be moved to Utah where logging and mineral interests dominate.
Rethinking Recovery: What I Learned After Being Told There Was Only One Way
11 Lessons that Emerged from Years of Showing Up Across Different Recovery Spaces
Civic Discourse with Citizen Tripp | Episode 9: All Things Third Spaces
Third spaces: where we gather and cultivate coalition, community and friendship.
Nashville-Based Music Duo ‘Writ3rs Block’ on Music, Instinct and Community
How Zoe and Blane turn instinct, emotion and connection into songs that bring people together.
How Male ‘Loneliness’ Became a Market for Digital Exploitation
The Making of Deepfake Abuse—and the Lonely Men Behind It.
Civic Discourse with Citizen Tripp | Episode 8: Mental Health and Community Impact
Mental health and community, loneliness and connection and building support and resilience.
Inside the Tech Stack Keeping Deepfake Abuse Profitable
How platforms, advertisers and tech infrastructure providers profit from non-consensual sexual imagery while avoiding direct accountability.
The Financial Class Could Easily Alleviate the Housing Crisis. Why Aren’t They?
The Price Gap Agreement is a new proposal that leverages existing financial instruments to get outpriced buyers into homes. It begs the question: why aren’t we already doing this?
For Molly Renze, Clowning Became the Place Where Awkwardness, Humor and Femininity Could Finally Coexist
Performer Molly Renze shares how humor, vulnerability, and presence shaped her path from improv to modern clowning.
Somatic Abuse In Narcissistic Families: When One Person’s Nervous System Carries Everyone Else
A Look at How Narcissistic Family Dynamics Push One Person to Carry the Emotional and Physiological Burden for Everyone Else.
Civic Discourse with Citizen Tripp | Episode 7: Alternative Forms of Defiance
Mutual aid, general strikes, digital activism and community organizing as alternative forms of nonviolent resistance.
The Art of Remembering: Inside Justin Yoon’s Painted World
Artist Justin Yoon discusses nostalgia, memory and queer Asian identity, and how fleeting everyday moments shape the dreamlike worlds inside his paintings.
From Assimilation to Ownership: How Dani Tan Rewrote the Rules of Success
Former corporate VP Dani Tan shares how navigating power, identity, and ambition led her to coach women of color toward ownership, clarity, and career authorship.
The Forecast Looks Grim, You Should Step Forward Anyway
When our systems feel unstable, the most immediate form of power is local participation, showing up in the places where you live, work and share responsibility.