Forty years ago, the public was outraged. It seemed there was a wave of teenage girls, particularly Black teenage girls, getting pregnant. "This was a new idea, this new deviant class of people, and ...

TIFF: "Your Name" director Shinkai Makoto returns with a stunningly gorgeous but emotionally diluted romance about climate change. Shinkai Makoto, the fiercely idiosyncratic anime filmmaker whose long ...

Racism kills; and that is made abundantly clear with every Black life lost to police misconduct, environmental hazard, or stress-induced illness. But the slow crumbling of our health due to systemic ...

Living in the midst of chronically stressful situations, including those suffused with race inequality and gender discrimination, may trigger new growth and coping skills — but it can also erode your ...

This story is part of SELF's ongoing series exploring black maternal mortality. You can find the rest of the series here. Imagine for a moment that you’re a very silly 22-year-old driving through ...

Passionate anime & gaming lover since she was a kid, Beatrix Kondo never stopped watching, learning, writing & researching about all things anime-related, and also expanded her knowledge to other ...

The 2024-25 Campus Community Book Project Title is “Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society” by Arline Geronimus. (Megan Macklin/UC Davis) Updated June 14: The book ...

In this week's Animania, we discuss, Weathering with You is a visually stunning anime that blends romance, rain and rebellion, exploring love, climate anxiety and growing up in modern Tokyo.

This year, 2020, is the gift that keeps on giving in the worst way possible, and the Black community is bearing the brunt of the bad news. Not only are we experiencing a disproportionate amount of ...

Makoto Shinkai follows up his hit anime 'Your Name' with this meteorological meet-cute, in which a boy falls for a girl who can control the weather. In Texas, there’s a saying that goes, “If you don’t ...