Erin Monahan (she/her)

All Praise to Black Feminists for Giving Us the Blueprint of Today's Labor Movement In 2016, I worked at Planet Granite (now a Movement location) in so-called Portland, Oregon, where towards the end of my time working there long-term employees were denied substantial raises and offered

A lot of us can look back on our lives and see the turning point(s) when everything as we knew it completely altered. One of those such moments that changed my brain chemistry forever was when I published an essay that had been sitting in my drafts for a

The outdoor industry is a tool of ongoing colonization—a well oiled machine of exploitation of the Land, our bodies, and “resources,” complete with white nationalist propaganda that implies “this land is your land,” when in reality this land is stolen, Indigenous land. From pervasive microaggressions to colonial narratives embedded

When: Wednesday, December 6th, 2023. 12pm - 4pm CT. Purchase your ticket and reserve your spot here! Early bird ends Friday November 17th at midnight CT! 10% of sales will go to Medical Aid for Palestinians. Access equity pricing for Black and Indigenous to Turtle Island folks! Have you ever been

When I wrote Ambient Dominion: How ‘Free Solo’ Points to an Epidemic of Toxic Masculinity in December 2018, I received so many comments from women, queer folks, and nonbinary people who shared my shock, disgust, and isolation at watching “Free Solo.” Sitting in a McMenamins theater in so-called Portland,

My post-graduate journey centered on unlearning much of what I had absorbed during my undergraduate years. Taking up the mantle of "autodidact," I turned to educational YouTube content by cultural critics like Kat Blaque and Franchesca Ramsey. By the grace of Goddess, I came across Ericka Hart