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Is Climate Change Making Loneliness Worse?

NonProfit Quarterly

As the Canadian Medical Association Journal wrote in 2021, “Studies have linked the consumption of bad news to increased distress, anxiety and depression, even when the news in question is relatively mundane.” The nonprofit sponsors monthly and annual meetups with free food, snacks, and games.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

They clothe themselves and their children according to the correctional dress code, submitting to searches of their bodies and belongings and myriad forms of intimate regulation and humiliation. billion ($7,695,892,661) are associated with partner incarceration-related depression episodes among Black women. billion ($40,138,541,763).

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

You, your partner, and your children are greeted by name, maybe even with warm hugs. A familiar scent wafts from the kitchen where your aunts are warming food they prepared earlier. —Audre Lorde (“Poetry Is Not a Luxury”) 1. You are asked how you are doing and can tell that the person asking genuinely cares.

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