What Happens When You Give People Space IRL
What Happens When You Give People Space IRL Xina Eiland hosts Same Ground, exploring the 250th Anniversary of the United States at an event at Love Now Media’s Love Lab Two months ago we opened a door to a storefront on Market Street in Philadelphia and asked people to come in to experiment with love, […]
Love Now Media Relaunches the Poet’s Press with Ursula Rucker and Yolanda Wisher as Co-Editors
Love Now Media is proud to announce the relaunch of the Poet’s Press, a journalism initiative that commissions and publishes poetry as media. The relaunch will take place on Thursday, June 25 at 6pm at the Love Lab, located at 932 Market Street. The event will introduce a new chapter for the project under the […]
Amid Grief in Germantown, The Wissahickon Endures as a Place of Comfort and Connection
In a moment when grief has touched the Germantown community, their story reminds us how nature can hold space for healing. Through shared miles and memories, these walkers have weathered loss, celebrated milestones, and carried one another through illness, aging, and mourning. The Wissahickon remains more than a park to them — it is a place of belonging, a landscape of connection, and a reminder that community endures, even in the face of sorrow.
Media Design Fellows Turn Grief Into Art, Advocacy, and a New Vision for Philadelphia
At the “Moment of Sharing” event, Media Design Fellows from Drexel University’s Wealth and Work Futures Lab with the Lindy Institute transformed grief into a collective lens for change, unveiling a body of work that centers healing, data, and narrative inquiry as tools for social repair.
Community Stakeholders and PA State Reps Drive Change to Ensure Safety for Black Mothers
In 2019, when Cleopatra Robinson lost her best friend, LaShana ‘Shana’ Gilmore, she never imagined that six years later, she’d lead a fast-growing non-profit foundation while preparing to open her first home for pregnant women.
How to Start Making Change With Those You’d Rather Cancel
Loretta Ross shares her ideas on how to engage in “calling in,” instead of “calling out,” within social justice movements.
How To: Heal Our Relationship to Intimacy
The painful, beautiful reality of intimacy is that it requires closeness with another being, achieved through mutual vulnerability. We share the ability to deeply wound each other and trust that we will not. Tim Kreider, essayist and cartoonist, sums it up best: “If we want the rewards of being loved, we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.”
Kuan Young Wants You to Incorporate Nature into Your Healing
Early on, Young noticed a disconnect between healing practices and feeling healed. He noticed individuals who were doing yoga every day but not feeling any better; to this, he maintains that “maybe [they] haven’t put the right things in [their] body,” or maybe their wellness journey should incorporate the novelty of nature.
From Pain to Prosperity: How to Overcome Money Trauma
As with all traumas, money trauma runs deep, and we are often unaware that we
have it. We might say that we have money problems, but not money trauma, which forms when we take on the beliefs that others have about money. We might have heard from others that money is evil or that you must work hard for money, and that becomes our belief (often, a belief that goes unchecked).
Bunmi Samuel Rewrites Resilience
Bunmi Samuel wants you to know that he is doing just fine. Ten years after a 15,000 ft skydiving fall, he is certain that this moment is his: “I am who I say I am. What I said I was going to do, I’ve done. Something tragic didn’t destroy me. I’m better than I’ve ever been.”
