Leather & Bound Brings Community Into the Story in This Texas Town
How a fantasy bookstore found it’s place in Fate, Texas.
Civic Discourse with Citizen Tripp | S2, Episode 1: All Things Divestment
Investing time, money, labor and attention to create healthier local systems
Where Your Ad Dollars Actually Go: The Real Work of Inclusive Marketing
Why True Inclusive Advertising Should Be Less About the Message and More About the Invoice.
Aunty Beast’s Magical World of Creatures
Meet Aunty Beast, the Pennsylvania artist who creates creatures with a life of their own.
There Is An Infrastructure Revolution Happening in Independent Publishing
Inside the Coalitions, Revenue Models and Shared Technologies Redefining Power in Media.
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.
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