By: Heather Mooney
In 2007, Ioane Teitiota headed to New Zealand with his wife and three children, leaving behind his home country of Kiribati, a group of isles in the Central Pacific Ocean. Rising sea levels, disease, storm surges, water contamination, and other natural disasters, occurring as an effect of climate change, made living conditions…
By: Sophene Avedissian
Every year, women spend around $2.8 billion on pads and tampons. These disposable menstrual care products can take between 500 and 800 years to break down when they end up in landfills. The chemicals used in pads and tampons such as dioxin, chlorine, and rayon pollute the environment further. According to Green Periods, the first data-driven initiative on…
By: Madina Amber
Andera Alejandra Gonzales [she/her] is a phenomenal Queer, Mestiza youth activist who I was delighted to talk to about what it’s like to be an activist. She is currently the Director of Operations at Youth Over Guns whose mission is to help decrease gun violence in underserved communities. As a Muslim American Pakistani and Movement Correspondent at NYCYCI, I felt it was…