Bi Visibility Day, A climate newsletter, Legal fellow at Reproductive Freedom Project

This week many around the world celebrated Bi Visibility Day! Get smarter in seconds with a video on bisexuality and read a fascinating opinion piece on one woman's journey in understanding her sexuality: "When I was still closeted and questioning, I turned to the internet for guidance and ended up on Reddit’s r/bisexual subreddit. It was validating to see how many other people felt the same confusion I did over whether they were “bi enough,” and I was pleasantly surprised by how overwhelmingly supportive the community was..."

Emily Atkin is one of the most preeminent chroniclers of climate change, best known for founding the daily climate newsletter HEATED. In a recent newsletter, she put one of the so-far hottest years on record into perspective, with photos of the devastation in Brazil, Greece, Argentina, Indonesia, and Bulgaria.

Zendaya won an Emmy for her role in Euphoria, a notable achievement since she is the youngest person and the second Black woman (after Viola Davis) to earn an Emmy for lead actress in a drama series.

Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza breaks down her activism career in an inspiring new video. From her earliest days of advocating for female reproductive rights at the age of 12 to her Facebook post in 2014 that sparked a political and social movement, Alicia has built an inspiring world around her.

'Enola Holmes' is a new fiery feminist film about Sherlock Holmes' sister.

Naomi Osaka’s impressive accomplishments and inspiring passion for racial justice earned her a spot in Time magazine 100 Most Influential People in 2020. Maya Moore, a champion WNBA player and Olympian athlete, wrote Osaka’s blurb and highlighted the “use [of] her gifts and talents, her voice and her platform, to honor the preciousness of Black and brown lives. It took humility and grace to point beyond what she was doing, winning on one of the biggest stages in her craft, at something more important.”

Two women in USA and Japan set a challenge to go 72 hours with no trash, and they documented the whole thing. Their vlogs are really fascinating looks into consumerism in two different countries, and just how difficult it can be to go zero-waste. 

Lizzo answers 73 questions for Vogue – in the interview she shares hilarious hiking stories, gives advice for other "Black girl nerds", and reminisces about a "summer of silence" she had in her 20s, borne primarily out of shame around dropping out of college and not pursuing flute, 

In Istanbul’s public baths, the writer Leslie Jamison learned what we gain from being physically among strangers — and what’s lost in the pandemic when we come to fear them. At the end of February, before the lockdowns, she flew to Istanbul to experience its legendary hammams. Visiting six baths in 36 hours, she wondered if the Western obsession with Turkish baths, in all its fantasizing and fetishizing, has been in part an attempt to claim pleasure as something more than indulgence, more like a mode of survival. Pain claims so much of us; why not give pleasure its due when we can?