Vanessa Taylor is a writer based in Philadelphia, although Minnesota will always be home. Through articles, essays, fiction, and more, she focuses on Black Muslim womanhood and technology..
Philadelphia Museum of Art workers hope their strike victory can inspire others
Having negotiated a new contract that promises wage increases, affordable health care, paid family leave, and more, workers hope that their efforts will inspire others in the industry to fight for fair compensation
Sports hijabs are easier than ever to find — but there’s a glaring gap in the market
Muslim athletes in combat sports share what they actually need.
“Weight cutting” is the fight world’s dirty underbelly
Athletes are increasingly being hospitalized — or worse — from trying to cut weight. Will combat sports ever stop it?
How to sell your own data — and why you might want to
“I know they’re going to take the data anyway. So I’m going to profit off of it because everybody else is already doing it.”
Five years later, Charlottesville is still reckoning with the Unite the Right rally
At the intersection of Heather Heyer Way and Water Street, I enter an unofficial memorial.
The Pentagon Can’t Counter White Supremacy
After the January 6 insurrection, a CBS News analysis found that at least 81 of the over 700 individuals charged in relation to the attack were current and former armed service members.
Abolitionist Organizers Warn ‘Counter-Extremism’ Won’t Stop White Supremacist Violence
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Conservatives love to paint adoption as the solution to abortion. Adoptees aren’t buying it.
Privatized adoption is the “commodification of children,” one adoptee told Mic.
Ever since the Supreme Court made abortion access a federally protected right in 1973, conservatives have attacked Roe v. Wade. Narrative control has been key to anti-abortion movements, including the re-defining of its supporters as “pro-life.” Anti-abortion activists paint themselves as “saving” kids, and they frame privatized adoption as abortion’s ethical alternative. But as Roe teeters on the edge, adoptees a...
This is why we’re all disgusted with the police
In 48 hours, law enforcement’s story about what happened in Uvalde has unraveled. What’s left is a mess of incompetence and horror.
Meet the fashion designer turned muay Thai trainer teaching her community to fight back
When the pandemic hit and anti-Asian attacks spiked, Jess Ng was uniquely positioned to help protect her fellow New Yorkers.
5 people of color on the Supreme Court's leaked abortion ruling
"IT’S TIME TO PUT DOWN THE PUSSY HATS AND PICK UP THE PITCHFORKS."
“A double-edged sword”: 4 women of color on Elon’s Twitter takeover
"Nothing beats getting to witness internet history by just showing up."
Inside the rise of human composting and other green burial practices
The quest to save the planet doesn’t end when your life does.
This organization is bringing back the “environmental spirit of Islam”
One meal laid the foundation for Green Muslims, an organization committed to seeing “Muslims living in the environmental spirit of Islam, striving towards connection with nature and environmental stewardship.”