adrienne maree brown: Pleasure Activism and Black Women’s Legacy of Joy

Get the full interview by becoming a supporter on our Patreon! We must recognize that “pleasure is a measure of freedom,” that’s the first ambition writer, healer, and teacher adrienne maree brown has for her...

Accessible Art: Jaye Moon’s “Call Me by Your Name”

How do we define "love is love," and what are we willing to do to defend one another? This week, we speak with a group of LGBTQIA leaders on just that.

We Are Not All in the Same Boat

Terry McGovern on COVID-19 "Pregnancy, TB? We haven't tested for any of these conditions yet," says Terry McGovern of Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health. We are not all in the same boat. A veteran...

Forward Thinking on Covid-19: Lebanon

Forward Thinking on Covid-19: Lebanon         SUPPORT US and help us keep creating content like this. Become a member of our Patreon community   How does a revolution mobilize against the threat of Covid-19? In Lebanon, activists are...

Contact Tracing in the Stalker State

To hear Laura’s full, uncut conversation with Hamid Khan, become a Patreon partner of the LF Show at  and Apple have partnered to create a Bluetooth-based app that collects location data to notify users...

Mass Incarceration: Envisioning A Moral Future, Featuring Michelle Alexander

How do we define "love is love," and what are we willing to do to defend one another? This week, we speak with a group of LGBTQIA leaders on just that.

Public Ownership of Privatized Medicine

Dana Brown, Director of the Next System Project frames the motives of privatized medicine in a system, which values profit over people. While nations are racing to develop a vaccine for Covid-19, how can...

Mary Robinson: Women Leading on Climate Change

Our city's economy – what is it for? New York's has been very good at piling up profits and building tall buildings. But all that private profit has come at a cost to public services and public trust. Could it be different?

International Women’s Day: the View from Kyrgyzstan

John Smith Trust works with up and coming leaders who are building civil society in the former Soviet Union. The Trust recently invited Laura (along with her sister Stephanie, of Bloomberg News) to...

LF SHOW EXCLUSIVE: Exile of Bolsonaro’s Brazil: Feminist Debora Diniz

How do we define "love is love," and what are we willing to do to defend one another? This week, we speak with a group of LGBTQIA leaders on just that.

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