Douglas Valdez grew up familiar with curandería, the traditional healing practices that his mother had learned as a child in Mexico. When he was sick, she would pull out an array of herbal tinctures and dapple his tongue with their bitter, dark liquid. When his skin got irritated, his mother spread tangerine peels on it—their aroma delicious and lingering.
Mario Burton, a 2024 graduate of Antioch’s PhD in Leadership and Change, has published his dissertation entitled Developing More Equitable and Critically Conscious Organizations: Testimonios and Critical Platicas with Black and Latino/x LGBTQ+ Male CHRD Leaders Authors.
How a Nonbinary International Student Is Bringing Queer Theory to Environmental Studies
I returned to graduate school at age 40 to pursue a career as a therapist. It has always been a secret desire of mine, and when I unexpectedly lost my mother, I decided that this was the time to do everything I’ve always wanted to do. I knew returning to academia as an older adult would be challenging in various ways; however, it was undoubtedly the best decision.
Sitting there wanting to share your truth, choking on the words that describe your true self. Fear races through your mind that you may not be enough for them to stay. Your truth, a deep vulnerability, is not enough. A simple comment is like pulling tar from your mouth. “This moment is perfect,” you think to yourself,
Russell Thornhill has spent decades of his life lifting up other people and their stories—through his ministry, through his teaching, through his scholarship, and through his platform as a key member of his community. But for a long time he resisted centering himself and his personal experiences.
Y’all… I’m so tired. In previous years, International Transgender Day of Visibility has been a joyous and proud occasion for me. My gender identity, as I now see it, has been my truth for nearly a decade, and my deliberate decision to live openly and honor that identity in my expression followed shortly after.
Over the last decade, Danny Cords has leveraged his education and enthusiasm to impact his world and make positive change.
It’s vital that communities support LGBTQ youth—but for clinical psychologists seeking to provide affirming care, this treatment can be a minefield.
tera mcintosh and melody lehman (Antioch Voices is a new space for members of the Antioch community to write and share opinion and creative writing pieces for university-wide distribution on…
Chris Tompkins ’22 (Los Angeles, MA in Clinical Psychology, LGBT-Affirmative Psychology Specialization) had their book, Raising LGBTQ Allies: A Parent’s Guide to Changing the Messages from the Playground, published by…
“So many of us don’t get appropriate sex education,” says Jack Duroc-Danner, an activist working to help non-autistic individuals to be more aware of the differences and needs of gender…