"The fears are real. They're just misplaced." For years, Britain's anti-trans movement won by rebranding fear as safety — casting trans people as a danger to be excluded rather than a marginalized group with rights.

Ren Dean spent a decade in urban planning, doing community development finance — and feeling further and further from the communities that work was supposed to serve. In 2023, they opened Skunk Cabbage Books: a self-sufficient, community-rooted bookstore named for the Chicago native plant.

The women of New Ground Cohousing and The Bird's Nest got tired of asking what their options were for aging — and built their own.

Danni Dabaddest was a shy kid with stage fright who became a drag queen, found herself, and realized she was trans — all through the power of performance and community. ✨ "Making people laugh is like feeding people. It's a way of bringing everybody together."

Mama Jay is a transgender woman in her seventies running a community kitchen in Beirut — feeding over 100 displaced people a day through bombings and drone strikes. She has survived civil war, imprisonment, family violence, and institutional harassment. She has never stopped cooking.

Dr. Erin Pettit has been taking girls onto glaciers since 1999. Dr. Aliyah Griffith has been introducing Black children to coral reefs since 2016. Both are betting that the next generation of climate scientists is already out there — they just need someone to open the door.

We're evolving — and we want to (re)introduce ourselves. We're an independent intersectional feminist magazine covering the stories that matter most — and trusting the people living them to tell them.

Even in drought, Huaylas is green. No one could explain why — until archaeologist Amanda Brock Morales started walking the landscape with the people who actually live there. Together, they found ancient canal systems, forgotten reservoirs, and a way of engineering the earth that had been buried.

Our conversation with Sophie Lewis is just 2 days away — June 3rd at 6PM ET. We'll be talking about her work on care, abolition, and what it means to reimagine utopia. Plus attendees get a sneak peek into her new book Femmephilia, releasing this month.

What does it mean to choose not to have children — when that choice was never supposed to exist for you? In the West, the child-free conversation is loud. It's on TikTok, in think-pieces, in hashtags. But it has a geography problem.

We sat down with Bernie Sinclaire — a single mom in New York who is rewriting the rules of family. She calls it a mommune. Not a commune. Not a co-parenting arrangement. A woman-centered, child-centered family structure built on the foundation of female friendship rather than romantic partnership.

What does a feminist future actually look like — and who gets to build it? Join us June 3rd at 6pm ET for a conversation with Sophie Lewis, author of Femmephilia, on care utopias, queer kinship, and the world we're fighting to imagine into existence.

There are 11 million single-parent households in America. Roughly 8 million are led by women — working, caregiving, managing, planning, and doing it largely without a net. The system was not built for them. So some are building something else.

"Femininity is a labor." Sophie Lewis on femme as a queer political act — a conscious, deliberate refusal to let femininity pass as nature. Read the Article Listen to the full interview at www.theparlormagazine.com/post/the-lov....

We sat down with Sophie Lewis, author of Full Surrogacy Now, Abolish the Family, and Enemy Feminisms, to talk about some of the most provocative ideas in contemporary feminist theory and her upcoming book Femmephilia.

Environmental journalist @varsha.yajman spoke to Greenpeace MENA's Inesaf Benzaki, food security expert Dr. Rami Zuryak of AUB, and Freedom Flotilla activist @violet_coco_canary about what conflict coverage consistently fails to reckon with — the decades-long environmental damage that remains.

In the United States, sexual violence remains a public health crisis — and yet, the systems designed to address it are running on survival mode. Funding is precarious. Statutes of limitations silence survivors.And harmful ideologies reach young men faster than any mentor can.

We've been digital since day one. That changes today. 🖤 Our first print issue is here — written by people who live in the in-between. Immigrants, refugees, border-crossers — both literal and figurative. Writers who don't have the luxury of looking away from this political moment.

What if "selfish" wasn't an insult? Kerry Docherty helped build Faherty into one of America's most recognizable lifestyle brands — and in doing so, nearly lost herself entirely. In her new memoir Selfish, she makes the case that prioritizing your own needs isn't a moral failing. It's survival.

In Cabo Rojo, a coalition of scientists, artists, editors, and community organizers are fighting to stop Esencia — a luxury development project that would strip half a dozen towns of their water supply, wipe out endemic species, and privatize beaches that have belonged to the public for generations.

“From Abstraction to Humanity” is a reflection on Persepolis and what it means to witness war beyond headlines and statistics. What happens when we stop seeing people as numbers—and start listening to their stories? #Persepolis #BookReels #HumanRights #TheParlorMagazine

Feon used to think belonging was supposed to feel loud — an anthem, a flag, a declaration. Instead, it arrived quietly. In ordinary days that weren't exhausting. Where did belonging quietly find you? #BorderlandsOfIdentity #WhatIsHome

As images of war move relentlessly through digital feeds, they risk becoming familiar, repetitive, and easier to scroll past. Contributing writer Luqmaan Zeerak asks how empathy, attention, and understanding are reshaped when war becomes both constant and fleeting at once.

In this essay, writer Iñaki Estivaliz recounts his participation in a weekend-long workshop at Casa Pueblo, convening journalists and local activists to explore how to challenge dominant narratives about migration— and how communities are building the infrastructure to resist and govern themselves.

In conversation with international social and environmental justice advocate Osprey Orielle Lake, this piece explores how climate change is inseparable from systems of colonialism and patriarchy, and why Indigenous women’s leadership is essential to building a just and sustainable future.