Browse our Current Summer 2024 Issue (#116)
Together in Wellness: The Promise of Community Acupuncture by Zachary Krebs
The question “What is health, and how do we create and sustain it?” has interested me for over a decade. After graduating from a community health undergraduate program and later an acupuncture school, becoming a licensed acupuncturist, and speaking with numerous experts, I have settled on the idea that healing is closely coupled and co-produced with biological, environmental, and social influences. Becoming healthy is something that is nuanced and contextual—and oftentimes a radical act—for a person or a community.
An Educational Model for the Future? Thoreau College and the Microcollege Movement by Jacob Hundt
When the history of American higher education in the twenty-first century comes to be written, 2024 will stand out as a watershed year when many dire predictions finally came true.
Less than halfway through the year, at least a dozen colleges with long histories announced that they are closing or are teetering on the brink. These include some of the most innovative small colleges in the country, as well as more mainstream private and public institutions of all kinds. The reasons for this mass extinction event are numerous and well-publicized, including a sharp demographic decline in the college-aged population, a botched roll-out of the new federal financial aid form by the Department of Education, and a disastrous college business model that continues to drive runaway tuition increases and deepening student debt.
Radical Imagination: A New Chapter for LILIPOH by Nico Haven
I know stories change the world because they’ve changed mine.
For twenty-five years, I performed as a cis, straight, neurotypical man—until 2020, when it all collapsed under the weight of inauthenticity.
In that moment of freefall, so many things in my life to that point felt fake, foreign, incompatible with a future I wanted or could envision for myself. The narrative I had at the center of that life—a narrative I had inherited from a society built upon binaries, where a boy likes GI Joes and a girl likes Barbies, and where those binaries are strictly enforced—was no longer one around which I could build.
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