In a wrenching dialogue, a man searches for human connection, even as he recalls childhood abuse. Translated from the French by Amanda DeMarco.

A personal meditation on trauma, loneliness, and the paradox that gay community is often both life-giving and terribly disappointing.

How the idea become central to present-day coalition building.

Allies can be powerful aides to social justice movements—but it is their responsibility to make sure they don’t become a distraction from the cause.

A historian and rapper reflect on their shared activism and the place they see for allies in the long struggle for racial justice.

When Celes Tisdale led poetry workshops at Attica State Prison, soon after the 1971 uprising, some of the prisoners were still recovering from gunshots.

Robin D. G. Kelley talks with musician Vijay Iyer about systems of oppression, the responsibility of artists, and how jazz sells proximity to blackness to white people.