If you’re not already in the habit of giving, it can be difficult to get started. What’s the best organization to give to? How do I know that my money will actually make an impact? How much is enough?

We want to help you give sustainably and responsibly. Follow this simple guide.

I wanted to let the anger speak, wanted to hold space for it. To give voice to the thing that I carry, that so many Black people carry, that we can’t express, that we’re told to keep to ourselves. That infests our bodies & kills our families, named pre-existing condition, economic inequality, systemic racism. This is what the anger had to say.

We are so thrilled to support writers Chelsea Bieker, Naima Coster, Aja Gabel, Kyla Marshell & Trish Nelson with our 2020 grants to readers. Each of them will receive grants to support their writing in any way they choose.

If you are able, we urge you to offer whatever support you can to the organizations that continue to support the most threatened populations during the crisis.

Stories have the ability to transform our living rooms into an unknown location. We can still explore our world while we are all at home, keeping our distance and keeping our neighbors safe. Please join us as we travel the world through our reader's words.

Getting a papsmear the other day, I started thinking how much medicine involves deliberately not seeing. Not in the way we’re talking about tonight, seeing as a spiritual communion. When a doctor cranks open your hoohaa with that icy, icy duck bill, they aren’t really looking at your vagina. They are observing it—objectively! Impersonally! It is a kind of seeing that is the opposite of communion.

Read the books that our October D.C. readers (Sandra Beasley, Tafisha A. Edwards, Lisa Page, Kish Rusek, & Mejdulene B. Shomali) are inspired by right now.

Books recommended from the scholars participating in our October 1st panel discussion, “Re-Telling the Story.”

Nonie and Natalka are writers and activists who started The Freya Project in January of 2017. Nonie and Natalka support women and non-binary people across the country emotionally by sharing and uplifting the stories of women and non-binary people, and tangibly by raising money for organizations fighting for human rights.

It should come as no surprise that we are #1, foam finger pointing, wave-participating fans of storytelling, and all it can do to inspire activism.

We’re extremely proud of the impact we’ve generated since our first event back in January 2017. Here’s a snapshot of all we’ve been able to accomplish — a story in numbers.

I spent most of my childhood afraid of flying objects. Not UFOs, not bats, which sometimes flew in our Bronx backyard, but sporty flying objects: balls, rackets, any sort of equipment that might collide with my body unexpectedly (or worse, on purpose).

The first time it happens is the worst, because there is nothing familiar. Nothing repeated, no outline. Yet it happens the same: a phone call and then a before and after. A list of regrets, explanations.

A lyrical essay is part memoir, part poetry, part prose.

What does it mean to come head first into the world?