<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Parlor]]></title><description><![CDATA[Timeless Tales, Critical Voices]]></description><link>https://www.theparlormagazine.com/allarticles</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:47:05 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.theparlormagazine.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Grief, Glitter, and the Business of Staying Alive]]></title><description><![CDATA[Port Townsend, Washington — a Victorian seaport town and certified Washington State Creative District — is home to a store that sells sparkly shoes next to books on decomposition. That's not a contradiction. It's the whole point.]]></description><link>https://www.theparlormagazine.com/post/grief-glitter-and-the-business-of-staying-alive</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a942aa76625a44549218a35</guid><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 14:02:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d449e2_096fc48d386d46eeb107295e1b1f99b9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lindsey Brock Morales</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing Something That Lasts]]></title><description><![CDATA[How a hip-hop duo's gift of land became three community gardens, a mentorship platform, and a model for funding climate work through music — with executive director Dr. Jazmine Alexander leading the work on the ground.]]></description><link>https://www.theparlormagazine.com/post/growing-something-that-lasts</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a821cd240f3daf10ba5e940</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:26:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d449e2_014f279d0f5f499bb42eb92b1d8a925a~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lindsey Brock Morales</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Administrative Life of a Trans Woman ]]></title><description><![CDATA[After India's 2026 Amendment Act rewrote what counts as a legal transgender identity, one writer traces the bureaucratic violence of paperwork, portals, and permission — and the community infrastructure that formed in its absence.]]></description><link>https://www.theparlormagazine.com/post/the-administrative-life-of-a-trans-woman</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a81d76868f1938b2e2f3a75</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:28:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d449e2_ee4c28d4d4b34df094d6052cf070358a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Hana Ghosh</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a Patient Woman]]></title><description><![CDATA[Klochan, a Ukrainian-born, disabled and queer artist based in Chicago, spent over a decade as a health journalist before turning to beadwork full-time. Her first solo show, "Not a Patient Woman," on view at NEW Gallery's Art City location through August 8th, brings that mission into sharp focus — using the language of patienthood to reckon with her identity as a disabled woman while celebrating the resilience and defiance of marginalized communities.]]></description><link>https://www.theparlormagazine.com/post/not-a-patient-woman</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a81d23582ed1f03a949cc3f</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:22:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d449e2_2fd5bf1573484d0aa440fcfbd66356ac~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator> Elisa Shoenberger</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Gets to Speak? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Across schools, courtrooms, and state legislatures, nonspeaking autistic people who use letterboard communication are fighting institutions that call their method "not evidence-based" — even as those same institutions profit from the alternatives they endorse. This piece traces how credentialing bodies, insurance-backed therapy providers, and device makers built a financial stake in deciding whose communication counts, often at the direct expense of the people they claim to serve.]]></description><link>https://www.theparlormagazine.com/post/who-gets-to-speak</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a52cefd661479e527e585a2</guid><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:46:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d449e2_379fe6e4634b44d59d3091f92469a680~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_941,h_906,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lindsey Brock Morales</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Language of Silence]]></title><description><![CDATA[Known across India as the “Silent Village,” Dhadkai has drawn doctors, scientists and journalists for decades. Beyond the genetic studies and medical curiosity lies a community that has transformed silence into a language of family, faith and resilience.]]></description><link>https://www.theparlormagazine.com/post/the-language-of-silence</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6687fa10a4941c072bb5a1</guid><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:52:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d449e2_911ab325ef504bd88822409e0fb647d8~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Luqmaan Zeerak</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sewing the Shroud, Dressing the Trench]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lebrón died in 2010. Eight years later, on the eve of her centennial, women in Spanish Harlem put her suit back on — and the Lolitas have since grown from thirty-one at a monthly vigil to hundreds marching across Puerto Rico, in the gray-and-blue suit, red bow, and penciled mole, carrying a gun with a flower bursting from the barrel. They march against an administration pursuing annexation while selling the country off in pieces. ]]></description><link>https://www.theparlormagazine.com/post/sewing-the-shroud-dressing-the-trench</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a657c3135380d3132b35c85</guid><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:09:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d449e2_00055e994ae245dc82ca521e064d909a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Iñaki Estívaliz </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Safety Trap]]></title><description><![CDATA[

Lamble's new book, Unsafe: The Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash, traces how Britain's anti-trans movement won by rebranding fear as safety — casting trans people as a danger to be excluded, not a marginalized group with rights. ]]></description><link>https://www.theparlormagazine.com/post/the-safety-trap</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a53c7c26c2bae2e27934304</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:22:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d449e2_6abd20a920244b5f9a135916c68a3606~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lindsey Brock Morales</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somalisota]]></title><description><![CDATA[Operation Metro Surge brought renewed national attention to Minnesota's Somali community, but largely as "perfect victims," obscuring the robust cultural and economic enclaves Somalis have built over decades. This is a look at Karmel Mall, and how Somali Minnesotans don't just survive the state's targeting — they thrive in systems they built for themselves, on their own terms.]]></description><link>https://www.theparlormagazine.com/post/somalisota</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a53a8670eb6d92caeebb7bd</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:13:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d449e2_6ccc53e77f344f61b217a576bb46e498~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Delina Haileab</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Real Sustainability Pioneers ]]></title><description><![CDATA[As the "sustainable fashion" market approaches $28 billion, the brands with the least claim to that label are the ones buying their way into it — through acquisitions, designer collaborations, and curated product lines that leave their underlying business models, built on overproduction and volume, untouched. The actual work of managing fashion's waste is happening elsewhere, in places like Kantamanto Market in Accra, where traders process millions of discarded garments a week.]]></description><link>https://www.theparlormagazine.com/post/the-real-sustainability-pioneers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a52dfb95c421b82021e008a</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 01:02:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d449e2_e65ea60cc8c54591b6fcd9fb2cd93f4c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Varsha Yajman</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Butch and Blossoming]]></title><description><![CDATA[Moving through the seasons of a Mumbai balcony garden, the writer — a trans woman, a butch lesbian, both at once — tends to the question of gender the way she tends to her tulsi and turmeric: not to arrive anywhere, but to sustain. What emerges is a meditation on identity as ecology — intercropped, composted, sacred, and stubbornly in bloom.]]></description><link>https://www.theparlormagazine.com/post/butch-and-blossoming</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a4148226e9b33148fbd4768</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:22:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d449e2_ca839c93e3af406dac33354a02d164c7~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Hana Ghosh</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little Pockets of Weird]]></title><description><![CDATA[Skunk Cabbage Books is, on paper, a retail business — and Dean is the first to say so. But in a city where independent community spaces are increasingly priced out or swallowed by the logic of scale, Dean's decade in urban planning gave them a different blueprint: a self-sufficient storefront that pays its own bills,  stocks books other states are banning, and hands its floor over to abortion funds and birding clubs alike. The weird, it turns out, is the point.]]></description><link>https://www.theparlormagazine.com/post/little-pockets-of-weird</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a41405251416e35e780a2ac</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:45:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d449e2_fb99352be55649e8a06f5af0503e2992~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator> Elisa Shoenberger</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The House the Women Built]]></title><description><![CDATA[New Ground and The Bird's Nest are outliers in a housing landscape that has largely failed elderly women — leaving them isolated, under-resourced, and invisible. But they point toward something the steady stream of inquiries both communities receive makes undeniable: the demand for safe, affordable, community-centered housing for older women is vast, unmet, and growing. ]]></description><link>https://www.theparlormagazine.com/post/the-house-the-women-built</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a4138ff69b2dfbbf1260488</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:27:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d449e2_b7a47b97d1ff46f28062ce610acc76d9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Collins</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protect the Dolls]]></title><description><![CDATA[A plain white T-shirt with four words traveled from a London Fashion Week runway to Coachella to the Supreme Court steps — and raised over $600,000 for trans people in crisis along the way. But "Protect the Dolls" didn't begin with Conner Ives. It began in the ballroom houses of 1980s New York, where Black and Latinx trans women built language out of survival. ]]></description><link>https://www.theparlormagazine.com/post/protect-the-dolls</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a25bfb81f44c606b37c5a0e</guid><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:22:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d449e2_066e8104609f4af0a6c554532415fad7~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jordan Reeves</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mama Jay: Feeding Beirut's Forgotten]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mama Jay has been surviving Beirut her whole life. As a trans woman who came of age during the Lebanese Civil War, she learned early that her body was both a target and a tool — and that care, offered freely, was the only form of power no one could take from her. Today, in her seventies, she runs a community kitchen out of Nation Station in Ashrafieh, feeding over a hundred displaced and marginalized people a day while Israeli jets break windows overhead.]]></description><link>https://www.theparlormagazine.com/post/mama-jay-feeding-beirut-s-forgotten</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a25b948bcf454bfefd91e43</guid><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:53:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d449e2_3fda7450c15745f8aee89eec4d685764~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Iñaki Estívaliz </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bringing It Out]]></title><description><![CDATA[

For Danni Dabaddest, drag was never about putting on a costume — it was about learning to take one off. Through years of performing, transitioning, and finding her people in Atlanta's drag community, she discovered that the best way to figure out who you are is to let yourself be somebody else first.]]></description><link>https://www.theparlormagazine.com/post/bringing-it-out</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a25ad9343d3e9ae32a34049</guid><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:23:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d449e2_a17096f22bf94fbb923bb7ba14292243~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Collins</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Had to Be Born a Woman]]></title><description><![CDATA[The feminization of AI is not aesthetic coincidence — it is structural. From the first voice assistants programmed to serve us in our homes, to synthetic actresses built to perform without complaint, to far-right avatars monetized by the manosphere, the technology that stands to reshape human civilization has been deliberately packaged in a woman's body.]]></description><link>https://www.theparlormagazine.com/post/ai-had-to-be-born-a-woman</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a13672e8fa816dacc83df3c</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 09:41:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d449e2_2e511433824e4a06b42f20d98c7fca14~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Elizabeth Collins</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Women Making Climate Research More Inclusive]]></title><description><![CDATA[As climate change accelerates, scientists argue that solving it will require more diverse minds than the field currently attracts. Two National Geographic Explorers — glaciologist Erin Pettit and marine scientist Aliyah Griffith — have built nonprofits to change that, taking young women onto glaciers and introducing Black children to coral reefs, betting that putting underrepresented kids in the field early is the surest way to build the next generation of climate scientists. ]]></description><link>https://www.theparlormagazine.com/post/the-women-making-climate-research-more-inclusive</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a13558f8fa816dacc83c25e</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 09:38:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d449e2_299014678a3842338dcfc86c6f86aceb~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator> Elisa Shoenberger</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living Landscapes]]></title><description><![CDATA[A New Model for Archaeology and Climate Change Remediation Archaeologist Amanda Brock Morales thinks her field has long gotten it wrong. Instead of treating local communities as bystanders — or worse, obstacles — she believes the people living around archaeological sites should be central to the work itself. In the Peruvian highlands, she's putting that idea into practice, partnering with residents to uncover the past while tackling very present-day problems like drought and disappearing...]]></description><link>https://www.theparlormagazine.com/post/living-landscapes</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a135afbf3bc0136e519441c</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 19:35:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d449e2_5d56430d59c74a9d9a6850f4845652d6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator> Elisa Shoenberger</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night Comes After Day]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the West, choosing not to have children has become a recognizable cultural position.  This piece goes elsewhere — to a Somali woman in Nairobi and a Pakistani woman in the Gulf, both Muslim, both child-free. Their stories complicate the child-free conversation, challenging Western assumptions, puncturing the romanticization of the Global South's "village," and raising a harder question:  in a world that offers women so few routes to power, how free is any choice at all?]]></description><link>https://www.theparlormagazine.com/post/night-comes-after-day</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fdb8954f7ebdc9f6a97b54</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 10:33:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d449e2_c8edc14f5a0144e7a5a1d3d6b15dd265~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Delina Haileab</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>