Blindness is no barrier Originally published on The Moon Magazine Photo by The Moon Magazine Sabriye Tenberken embodies the notion that “impossible is nothing.” Born in Germany with a degenerative eye disease, she became totally blind at the age of twelve. Shunned by her friends and patronized by her teachers, Tenberken compensated by doing […]
Radical forgiveness Photo by The Moon Magazine Originally published on The Moon Magazine In 1993, Amy Biehl, a 26-year-old Stanford University graduate, was a Fulbright scholar in South Africa, researching black South African women’s struggle for equality in the new constitution being negotiated to replace the apartheid government. On August 25, she left her […]
The Call of the Wild Originally Published on The Moon Magazine Lynx Vilden, a barefoot blonde in buckskin clothing, has carved her own unique path in the world—a path that used to be natural to all of us, but no longer is. While most have us have grown more and more distant from our roots […]
The right to food | An interview with Hilal Elver Originally published on The Moon Magazine Photo by The Moon Magazine Originally Published on The Moon Magazine Hilal Elver is the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. She grew up in Turkey, where she earned her Ph.D. from the University of […]
The problem is the SOILution | An interview with Sasha Kramer Photo by The Moon Magazine Originally published on The Moon Magazine Sasha Kramer is a slight, blonde former New Yorker who got a Ph.D. in ecology from Stanford University in 2006, the same year she co-founded SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods)—a nonprofit headquartered in […]
Surviving genocide Photo by The Moon Magazine Originally published on The Moon Magazine Immaculée Ilibagiza was a 22-year-old engineering student at the National University of Rwanda in 1994 when life as she had known it came to a horrific end. Over the course of approximately one hundred days following the assassination of Hutu president […]
Our sisterhood is global Photo by The Moon Magazine originally published on The Moon Magazine I first learned of Jane Wanjiru Muigai Kamphuis watching the HBO documentary, A Small Act. The film told the story of Chris Mburu—Jane’s cousin—whose primary education in a rural village in Kenya was sponsored by a woman he’d […]
