From Conducive Mag- Korea to Haiti: Lessons in Overseas Adoption Corruption March 8, 2010Arrested by Haitian authorities for trying to cross illegally into the Dominican Republic with 33 so-called orphaned children, whose parents were later found to be alive, U.S. citizens and Idaho Baptist missionaries Laura Silsby and Charisa Coulter remain imprisoned in Port-au-Prince pending investigation of alleged child trafficking. Seeking to save... […]
- Stressed Graduate Student March 8, 2010Dr. Mai Kieu-Loan offers relationship advice to a female law student and highlights the differences in how men and women handle dating in graduate school. […]
- Preserving Relationship with Parents Despite Their Disapproval Over New Job March 4, 2010Conducive advice columnist, Dr. Kathy Hahner, gives advice on preserving the relationship with one's parents despite tension over a new do-gooder job. […]
- FEBRUARY/MARCH 2010 February 25, 2010ISSUE 6 FEBRUARY/MARCH 2010 […]
- A Bronx Girl Goes Home February 5, 2010The murder of a cousin takes Conducive editor Heather Tirado Gilligan back to her home in the Bronx, and back to the childhood and experiences that continue to shape her. […]
- Using Anger Constructively February 4, 2010Conducive advice columnist, Dr. Kathy Hahner, gives advice on using anger constructively. […]
- Looking Back to the Future? January 30, 2010Humankind, both collectively and individually, has a strange little quirk. We ignore the past when it holds valuable lessons that go against what we want to hear or believe. Our insistence in doing this has negatively affected our future many times, both as individuals and as a society. We give... […]
- Campaigns Take Individual Involvement To New Level January 28, 2010The production and consumption of bottled water contributes to waste, pollution, toxins, and the bottled water industry’s interest in controlling our water resources. As a result of these negative impacts, many people have vowed to stop buying bottled water. If you have successfully ditched bottled water, and want to stay... […]
- REDUCING THE SUICIDE STIGMA Suresh Unni's Story January 21, 2010There are many ways of coping with the loss of a loved one. For Suresh Unni, solace is found in sharing his brother's experience with depression and eventual demise from suicide. Through his work as a clinical social worker and therapist and participation on the board of directors of the... […]
- Dating a Separated Person January 18, 2010Conducive advice columunist, Dr. Kathy Hahner, gives advice on dating a separated person. […]
- Korea to Haiti: Lessons in Overseas Adoption Corruption March 8, 2010
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Jon Stewart on Waxman-Markey Bill
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Daughter from Danang
Under the belief that her daughter’s life was in imminent danger, Mai Thi Kim sent seven year old Heidi to America along with over 2,000 other Amerasian children as part of what became known as Operation Babylift. Over twenty years later, PBS documentary Daughter from Danang follows their heartbreaking journey.
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Sisters of '77
Watch PBS Independent Lens documentary about the 1977 National Women’s Conference where 20,000 people attended. The delegates adopted the National Plan of Action, a list of 26 resolutions to promote equal rights and end discrimination against women. Many of the delegates were major figures in feminism’s second wave.
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Twenty thousand people from [...]
Maybe Your Marriage Will be Visible After All
Great news for people who love civil rights and demographic accuracy.
Conducive author Heather Tirado Gilligan wrote in the June/July 2009 issue that the federal government would count same-sex married people as “single” in the 2010 census. Gilligan claimed the census was reponsive to the voice of the people, and she was right.
Same sex married [...]
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Conducive is an online magazine devoted to critical thinking about ways to deal with social problems and viable solutions to dilemmas we face on both a local and worldwide scope. We are also interested in storytelling loosely defined as beneficial.
We publish essays, creative nonfiction, photography and investigative journalism looking at communities in action and exploring [...]
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Conducive's June/July 2009 Issue is Out
Our June/July 2009 issue is out. Read Bella DePaulo and Heather Tirado Gilligan debates on marriage, L.A. Corralez’s take on this season’s eco and slow fashion. Conducive editor, Christine Shearer interviews an indigenous climate change activist and Professor Budd L. Hall explores the long connection between poetry and social movements.
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Shishmaref Alaska and Global Climate Change
While corporate funded think tanks and their political lackeys told us the science was out on global warming, others were already dealing with its harmful effects. For over a decade many Inupiaq of northwest Alaska have been watching their villages erode away, tearing apart at centuries of their subsistence way of life. Warming waters prevent [...]
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Every Child is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas
Piri Thomas, educator and activist, bridges poetry and activism.
When Thomas published his book in Down These Mean Streets in 1967, he made visible an America many knew nothing of. His America was Spanish Harlem and Sing Sing. His prose and poetry about endurance, survival and self continue to inspire and influence audiences.
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Douglas Kmiec
A Catholic scholar’s take on equality and marriage
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Counting Everyone
Colorlines brings us another story of the struggle to be visible to the federal government.
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Counting people is harder than it looks. The 2010 census is morphing from a sociological project into a political one: conservatives are crowing about the dangers of tallying “illegals,” and activists are seeking policy changes to guard against undercounting.
Immigrant advocates [...]
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Sesame Street Reminds us of our Potential
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. on The Colbert Report