ARTICLE

FindCenter AddIcon

Re-territorializing María Sabina: Huautla, Mushrooms, and Politics

By Iván Sandoval-Cervantes — 2020

Sitting atop the Oaxacan portion of Sierra Madre Oriental Mountains, Huautla de Jímenez, a small Mazatec town of around thirty thousand people, has received its fair share of international tourism. During the early 1960s, droves of European and American youths visited this Indigenous village searching for hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Read on culanth.org

FindCenter Post-Image

How I’m Raising My Daughter to Be 100 Percent, Unapologetically Indigenous

I want my daughter to see that an Indigenous way of life isn’t an alternative lifestyle but a priority. It is essential, then, that I return to the parenting principles of my ancestors and consciously integrate Indigenous kinship practices into her childhood.

Article
Andrea Landry
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Republican War Against Trans Kids

Chase Strangio, who has won a series of landmark court cases in his role as ACLU deputy director for transgender justice, explains why states across the country are suddenly targeting the freedom of trans youth with a wave of new laws.

Article
Saeed Jones
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Intersectionality Wars

When Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term 30 years ago, it was a relatively obscure legal concept. Then it went viral.

Article
Jane Coaston
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

From Radical Dharma to All About Love, a Look at Queer Black Buddhist Perspectives on Spiritual Practice in Contemporary Texts

Several queer Black Buddhist authors have showed me how spiritual practice can be a liberating force in the face of challenges as huge as racism, sexism and queerphobia.

Article
Chintan Girish Modi
2020
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

BIPOC Well-Being