National Geographic1 day agoTheater troupe carves out healing path by tackling unspoken taboosverified_publisherNational Geographic - Anna-Catherine BrigidaThe performances by women in El Salvador aim to initiate difficult conversations—from abuse to forced motherhood—and provide an emotional release from tragic experiences. San Salvador, El SalvadorThe stage curtain opens on Evelyn Chileno, a stout, middle-aged woman wearing a red shirt and apron. She …
National Geographic1 day agoHow the Declaration of Independence wooed Americans away from Britainverified_publisherNational Geographic - K. M. KostyalCutting ties with a king might have seemed like "Common Sense" in the 1770s, but the desire was not unanimous among the colonists—until the Declaration convinced them otherwise. In perhaps the most famous words from the Declaration of Independence—“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all …
National Geographic2 days agoThe great hunt for the world's first LGBTQ archiveverified_publisherNational Geographic - Nina StrochlicBefore Nazism, a German institute cemented itself as gay liberation’s epicenter. For 40 years, activists have been searching for its legendary collection. In the early 1990s, a Canadian student named Adam Smith opened a dumpster in the basement of his apartment building in Vancouver, Canada, and …
National Geographic2 days agoI knew the men murdered in the Amazon—and their killerverified_publisherNational Geographic - Scott WallaceThe murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira mark a new escalation in the battle for the Amazon, its resources, and its Indigenous defenders. The brutal murders of a British journalist and an Indigenous rights activist this month in the Amazon hit especially close to home for me. I knew them both; …
National Geographic1 day agoI knew the men murdered in the Amazon—and their alleged killerverified_publisherNational Geographic - Scott WallaceThe slayings of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira mark a new escalation in the battle for the Amazon, its resources, and its Indigenous defenders. The brutal murders of a British journalist and an Indigenous rights activist this month in the Amazon hit especially close to home for me. I knew them both; …
National Geographic5 days ago‘This is me, as I am’: A photographer documents her own gender transitionverified_publisherNational Geographic - Allison LippyIn 2015, Allison Lippy realized who she had always been—and turned her camera on herself to understand her journey as a transgender woman. It took 27 years for me to realize I was transgender. It took a month or two to decide to physically transition. It took even less time than that to understand …
