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Lauren Schiller

Lauren Schiller is the creator and host of Inflection Point, a podcast and public radio show from KALW and PRX, featuring stories of how women rise up. For more rising up stories, follow Lauren on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to the podcast on Android or Apple Podcasts.

Climate change activists holding signs join in on a rally supporting the "Green New Deal" in Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles on Friday, May 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

“You can poison people and get away with it”: Green New Deal co-author on poverty and climate crisis

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Heather McTeer Toney (Moms Clean Air Force)

Clean air is a “mom-partisan” issue: Making climate crisis activism a family affair

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Teenage Climate Crisis activists from various climate activism groups protesting. (Ollie Millington/Getty Images)

How this youth climate activist is turning up the pressure on fossil fuel industries

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Amber Tamblyn attends the "Wine Country" World Premiere at Paris Theatre on May 08, 2019 in New York City. (Noam Galai/FilmMagic)

How actress Amber Tamblyn defines her own role in a post-Weinstein world

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A multi-ethnic group of adults are taking a yoga class together at the gym. They are sitting on their exercise mats and are meditating with their eyes closed and their hands together at heart center. (Getty Images)

Can a yoga practice help you change the world?

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(Wiktor Szymanowicz / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

How we get more women of color elected: “We really don’t want allies. We want accomplices”

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Dirty dishes stacked in kitchen sink. (Getty Images/Mardis Coers)

The text from Eve Rodsky’s husband that made her say “I’m done” with their division of labor

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Unplugging from devices (Getty Images/Salon)

Why the Webby Awards founder now unplugs from technology one day a week

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White nationalist attend a rally on October 28, 2017 in Shelbyville, Tennessee. The event billed as a White Lives Matter rally is hosted by Nationalist Front, which is a coalition of several white supremacist organizations. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/Salon)

What white nationalists and incels have in common: Blaming feminism

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Red airplane changing direction (Getty Images/iStock)

Do people ever truly change their beliefs?

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Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sharice Davids and Rashida Tlaib (AP Photo/Salon)

Advice for women who want to run for office: Stop waiting for “the right time”

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Eve Ensler on men and #MeToo: “I have never heard a man publicly, authentically, deeply apologize”

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Is the deeply divided U.S. ready to embrace paid family leave for all?

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An abandoned home stands behind a padlocked gate April 29, 2008 in Stockton, California. (Getty/Justin Sullivan)

Is guaranteed income the answer to inequality?

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(Getty/D-Keine)

Could virtual reality end real-world harassment?

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“Boys will be boys” limits all genders: We need a radical shift in how we raise boys

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AP/Jack Plunkett)

The radical magic of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “She embodies that willingness to just risk it”

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Gloria Steinem (AP/Charles Sykes)

Gloria Steinem on the moments that “get you off your ass and into the revolution”

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Roger Ailes poses in his office in 2015 in "Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes" (Wesley Mann/Magnolia Pictures)

What the Roger Ailes saga can teach us about tyrants, power and protection

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(Getty/Adam Berry)

Big lesson of 2018 for women: Patriarchy is the problem, not men

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Artwork by Mara Guevarra, CDS Staff (Courtesy of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University)

“Put down your male fragility”: How men can talk about gender and sexism productively

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Ruth Whippman, author of "America the Anxious" (Photo by Eliot Khuner/Courtesy of Ruth Whippman)

Stop selling women “empowerment feminism” — it doesn’t work, and it’s holding women back

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"Algorithms of Oppression" by Safiya Noble (New York University Press)

Why your search results are sexist and racist: A conversation about Google’s blind spots

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Participants listen to a speaker during the Women's March for Truth on January 20, 2018 in St Louis, Missouri. (Getty/Whitney Curtis)

Rebecca Traister on the long history of women’s anger: “There is no peak fury”

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