News & Updates
Disability Pride and Our Disabled Truths
Sandy Ho — Program Director of the Disability Inclusion Fund July is Disability Pride Month. This is also the month many in our disability communities mark the passage of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, a cornerstone of our country’s civil rights that still,...
What We Learned: Empowering BIPOC Communities through Strong Information Ecosystems
How much does it cost to sustain a thriving BIPOC-led and serving journalism ecosystem over the next 10-15 years? What role has/does/could BIPOC journalism play in civic participation? How could Black journalism exist, beautifully, in the public sphere? On May...
What’s Next? The Movement Responds to SCOTUS’ Attacks
ALLISON BAILEY/NURPHOTO/AP On June 29, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, making it unlawful for colleges to consider racial identity as a factor in admissions decisions. The next day, the Court issued decisions limiting the rights of same-sex...
We are Putting Faith in the People, Not the Police: An Interview with Kilómetro’s Mari Mari Narváez
In the face of ongoing police violence and state-sanctioned aggression, the need for systemic change and accountability has never been greater. This month, Borealis’ Communities Transforming Policing Fund (CTPF) connected with Mari Mari Narváez, the founder and...
A Call to Action for Pride Month
It is through inclusivity that movement spaces not only become communal sanctuaries for those most impacted by injustice but also the bedrock by which those movements create lasting and intersectional leadership. Centering Black and brown, trans, gender nonconforming,...
Honoring Our Unapologetically Queer and Trans Ancestors
Every year during Pride season, we are reminded of the queer and trans elders who sacrificed so much to make our freedoms possible. With the mass commercialization of Pride, it is easy to imagine that broad acceptance of LGBTQIA+ people is and has been long...
A Borealis Queer & Trans Self-Care Guide
This Pride month, we’re thinking about self-care and the ways that we can sustain ourselves, mentally and physically, as we continue in communal work towards full queer and trans liberation. All year long, LGBTQ+ activists have been on the frontlines fighting for...
$100 Million Since 2020: Resourcing The Movement and Assessing the Moment
As we approach the three-year mark of the summer 2020 global uprisings, movements for social justice have continued to see funders and corporations back peddling on commitments to marginalized communities in need of direct support. And yet, in the days, weeks, and...