Mikki Morrissette

Hope is what allows us to look into what seems to be the ruins and discover that there lies everything we need to build something new.

Women now make up roughly 17 percent of veterans in the United States. Gibson is among a relatively small percentage of veterans — of any gender — who trust the veterans’ system enough to access the housing and health care benefits they are entitled to.

From veterans, I am learning about the simultaneous mix of traumas and joys from service. Mostly, what I have heard is the desire of service providers to be able to serve veterans better.

"Yes, we feel divided, and yes, we are in real ways — but I think the narrative is obscuring a lot of shared values, shared goals, the desire to be in positive relationship, the desire to solve problems together."

"We know that the people often behind those keyboards are presenting their deepest, darkest, angriest self. By interviewing people, having conversations, actually looking into what the issues are, you put the actual facts and information out there."

"One thing history has shown is that when women win, they take all of us with them."

Gwen Walz: "I'm asking you to have hard conversations with that neighbor who has a sign in the yard that you might not love, because we aren't giving up on them. They are part of our country, too."

When a 19-year-old Macalester student on our editorial board suggested doing a story about an intergenerational conversation between her and two colleagues — all Jewish, queer, advocates, and writers — I was interested, but not sure it would make it into the print version of this month’s theme

The documentary film “Beyond the Bridge: A Solution to Homelessness” is deep, moving, and ultimately uplifting.

I think our society tends to quickly flatten women and femmes to ‘What can you do?’