A Transgender Woman Comes Out and Reshapes Her North Carolina Family
Since moving back to North Carolina in May, Christine Newton Bush has been carrying an envelope labeled "For N.C." in her purse. The envelope contains name-change documents, a newly printed birth...
View ArticleFor Some Breast Cancer Survivors, Nipple Tattoos Offer a Return to Normalcy
Tara Dunsmore never imagined she would grow up to be a tattoo artist. The forty-three-year-old registered nurse never got into drawing as a kid. She pursued a medical path in school rather than an...
View ArticleBuying From Local Makers Can Be Costly, but It’s Worth the Extra Effort
In a booth at the Durham Art Walk Holiday Market one Saturday morning, Nicole Kligerman tells two very different stories with the clothing she wearsone of fast fashion and one of slow fashion.
View ArticleWith the Trump Presidency Looming, Women Are Getting IUDs While They Still Can
On the evening of November 8, Megan Squires gathered at the Isaac Hunter's Oak City Tavern in downtown Raleigh with about one hundred supporters of the Wake County transit referendum to watch the...
View ArticleThe Resistance, Day Two: With N.C. Organizers at the Women’s March on Washington
Depending on whom you ask, anywhere from five hundred thousand to one million people came to Washington, D.C., for the Women's March on Saturday. Several million more marchers descended on cities...
View ArticleFree Your Mind: Techno-Shamanism Practices Aim to Get Your Brain on An...
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View ArticleDurham’s Reid Miller Wants to Use New Tech to Push Past Standard Sizes in...
Since the standardization of sizes in the 1940s, women have been forcing their bodies into the so-called average mold. But, with the help of new technology, apparel designers like Durham's Reid Miller...
View ArticleFood Triangle: Tami Purdue Thinks the World’s Food System Is Unsustainable,...
At Sweet Peas Urban Gardens in Hillsborough, a million things are happening at once. Bees are pollinating, shiitake mushrooms are growing, LED lights are illuminating seedlings in a crop box, compost...
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