privilege
Meet the Teenage Girl Who Led Thousands in Protest Against Sweden’s Deportation of Afghan Refugees
The deportations haven’t stopped, but 18-year-old Fatemeh Khavari made Sweden pay attention to their struggle.
Four College Freshmen Photograph Their First Semester
We asked some incoming students to capture what it meant to be the new kids at school.
Ukraine's Lost Generation
Sucked into the trauma and labor of an ongoing war, Ukraine’s Millennials face uncertain prospects in a country rife with Soviet-era boomer corruption, an uneven economy, and a lack of job opportunities.
Meet the 17-Year-Old Boy Calling Out His Classmates for Objectifying Women
Noah Abraham is a leader in ManUp, an initiative that aims to get high school boys to reject toxic masculinity and to learn about sexual consent.
How a Teen Tried to Heal Her Town After Losing Two Friends to Suicide
By the end of 2016, Nina Griffiths, a teen from New Zealand, had won $10,000 in funding for a youth center, expanded their peer-support program, and propelled the conversation about youth suicide back onto the national stage.
Tracing the Tactics of 21st-Century Youth Protest
Using nonviolence, humor, and pop culture savviness, a group of Serbian university students sparked a revolution and provided a blueprint for global youth movements.
Don’t Waste Your Privilege. Share It.
Instead of concealing the truth or cementing ourselves in a chamber of guilt for the often unearned opportunities and access that privilege has afforded us, we must, as the Black feminist activist Brittany Packnett says, “spend our privilege.”
America’s Housing Crisis Is Breaking Young People
Thảo Lê stayed in San Jose with an abusive partner for a while because, as they put it, “I knew I just had to sacrifice some things to have a place to stay.”
This Is What Living on Minimum Wage Looks Like
The photographer Chase Castor shot four workers in Kansas City, as they struggle to survive day after day with little pay.
This Is How You Go to College Without Taking on Massive Debt
Many young people don't even realize that bargaining over financial aid is an option.
The Future of Capitalism Is San Francisco on Steroids
Something’s about to burst, and it might just be society itself.
Does Leveraging Whiteness in Corporate America Mean More Than Supporting Women of Color?
I spent a decade in corporate America learning that working with white women often meant learning how to work around them on my way up the next rung of the ladder. Here's what else I learned.