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Is Climate Change Making Loneliness Worse?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Miriam Alonso on pexels.com Loneliness is “the most human of feelings,” Jeremy Nobel, faculty at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, said on the podcast Harvard Thinking. Along with feelings about climate change eroding mental health, climate events can contribute to loneliness.

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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. Finally, we can create a partial estimate of the impacts of these burdens on women’s health.

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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

The Mammy archetype is the image of an unattractive Black mother who is strong and content in her caregiving role for many children in the service of White slave owners or White employers. The health consequences of coping with racism-related stress are real and life-shortening. 31 I hope you caught that.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

Editors’ note: This article is from NPQ ‘s winter 2022 issue, “New Narratives for Health.”. You, your partner, and your children are greeted by name, maybe even with warm hugs. Increasingly, media coverage frames Black maternal health as a “crisis.” “PHASES” BY EKOW BREW/ WWW.EKOWBREW.COM.

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