We’re creating a platform to tell stories of our time with care and context.
BehanBox is an independent media platform covering issues and advancing ideas at the intersection of gender, health, policy, and climate. We record the lives, histories, desires of people marginalised and made invisible by the complex systems of our times. To read our work, head over to our website.
Our journalism has led us to this question: how do we build a community, and who will it benefit? We believe Big Tech-governed social media flattens dialogue and discourse. It dictates people’s focus through feeds; attention through algorithms. This ecosystem doesn’t allow for holding institutions to account, translating anger into action, or empowering communities to tell their own stories.
The current consumption of news won’t do. Which is why we’re building a softer, intentional space to read about ideas, institutions, news, and communities. We at BehanBox believe in nurturing relationships with our readers as well as with the people at the heart of our stories. We will appreciate your likes, shares, and comments, but we hope to earn your loyalty and trust. In the long run, our mission is to equip people with resources, knowledge, and clarity in how our world works, and why.
BehanBox’s journalism values telling stories of our time with care. Our newsletters are crafted to balance news with knowledge, anger with action, despair with hope, and ordinary stories with extraordinary ideas. We don’t want to be preachy, and we definitely don’t want to be siloed from important perspectives. Our collection is meant to help you engage with the world with clarity, context, and most of all: joy.
Here is our bouquet of newsletters:
BehanVox
Our flagship newsletter brings you the best of BehanBox, gender news from the world, and our reading recommendations.
Postcards
One postcard every month about the people, places, and ideas that brought team BehanBox joy.
Postscript
Our monthly newsletter with all things behind the scenes. A story is not just what you read. A lot goes behind the scenes from intense discussions to the choices we make and abandon. What does a typical newsroom operation look like? We invite you into ours – to help us become better.
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