Gratitude Healing Arts

09/09/2026

Healing art 🫶🏻

Olivia Rodrigo’s surprise commission just saved a Palestinian fashion brand from shutting down

Palestinian designer Yasmeen Mjalli was on the brink of closing her label, Nöl Collective, after Israeli customs destroyed a key fabric shipment. She was ready to call it quits — until Olivia Rodrigo stepped in and commissioned a custom dress for the inauguration of her Daisy Chains festival.

“I was genuinely like, maybe we should stop… I was just so tired,” Mjalli said. “But [Rodrigo’s commission] was like divine intervention.”

From near-collapse to a high-profile moment thanks to one of music’s biggest stars.

09/02/2026

Our lives are connected, and our humanity depends on how we treat one another.

08/18/2026

08/18/2026

Alaska Public Media is interviewing the top candidates for governor ahead of the Aug. 18 primary. Hear or read our full interview with Meda DeWitt here.

08/18/2026

Healthcare and housing should both be human rights

US Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal has renewed her call for Medicare for All, describing it as a universal insurance system that would provide healthcare coverage throughout a person’s lifetime.

Jayapal said the proposal would eliminate private insurance premiums, copays and deductibles, while preventing insurance companies from denying people needed care.

“An insurance card from birth till death. That’s what Medicare for All provides,” Jayapal said. She added that people should not lose their healthcare simply because they lose their jobs.

Jayapal framed universal healthcare as a human right and criticised what she described as the role of profit driven companies in determining access to medical care.

08/14/2026

Healing art is language preservation 🫶🏻 vote for Meda DeWitt for Alaska!!

08/12/2026

This one deserves to be shared for the right reasons. Destany "Sky" Pete, a Duck Valley high school student, watched cancer and diabetes rise among her Shoshone and Paiute people, and saw a link others were missing: as her community lost its traditional foods, its modern health crises grew.

So she brought her ancestral knowledge into the laboratories of Boise State University to study the chokecherry, a berry long central to her people's diet. The detail that mattered was the method, she prepared the traditional chokecherry pudding, "toishabui," exactly as her ancestors did, carefully crushing the berry seeds, where modern shortcut versions fell short. In the lab, her authentic preparation slowed and halted the growth of aggressive uterine cancer cells within 24 hours, surprising the researchers and earning her First Grand Prize over hundreds of competitors.

Here's the honest context, because it matters: this is an early lab finding, cancer cells in a dish, not a treatment tested in people. It's the exciting first step that opens the door to further research, not a cure. But that is exactly how science begins, with a great question and a surprising result. And that's what makes her achievement so remarkable: a teenager honored her heritage, pointed science toward something worth studying, and earned her place in a university lab.

Follow us for the science, and the people, quietly changing what we know.

Source:

Manning, S. S. (2017, June 12). Bringing science and culture together with chokecherry pudding. Indian Country Today.

08/12/2026

Healing Art!

Roughly 1,900 red figures cover the cliffs above the Zuojiang River in Guangxi, southern China, and they've survived about 2,000 years of subtropical heat, humidity, torrential rain, and typhoons.

A July 2026 paper in the Journal of Archaeological Science explains how. Researchers ran proteomic analysis on fallen fragments and found the pigment sits in a thin engineered mortar of slaked lime, calcium phosphate, and blood proteins. The blood acts as a template for biomineralization, growing dense calcium crystals that fuse the color chemically to the limestone. The samples were bonded so tightly that the lab needed electric drills to pull them.

Both animal and human blood turned up, and human proteins dominated some samples. Two of them, prolactin-inducible protein and lactotransferrin, are tied to pregnancy and breastfeeding, and there was no casein to suggest added milk. From that the team proposed part of the blood came from postpartum bleeding, a hypothesis they frame with caution since the alkaline lime destroyed any recoverable DNA.

The art is attributed to the Luoyue people, ancestors of today's Zhuang, whose society some historical texts describe as matrilineal. Estimates put it at about 8 ml of blood per square meter across a panel that runs 170 meters wide and over 40 meters high. The site became a UNESCO World Heritage listing in 2016.