On a rainy spring morning in Muncie, Indiana, a White, middle-aged, conservative woman met a transgender woman for a date. It did not start well. The transgender woman was waiting at a table when the ...

On a recent Sunday morning, Rachel Dover visited Copenhagen’s Human Library. But unlike a traditional library where she would browse the stacks for a new read, the 58-year-old from Glasgow, Scotland, ...

MONROE COUNTY — People judge each other. People need more human connection. Those beliefs motivated three local women to bring the Human Library to Monroe. Started 25 years ago in Denmark, the Human ...

An Instagram post last week spread awareness about the existence of the “Human Library” — a safe space where visitors could “check out” other people instead of books, who would share their life ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—She’s been accused of “talking White” and “acting Black.” Of being racially ambiguous. Of being confused. But her identity, the ways in which she sees and understands herself, belies ...

When two people on completely different ends of the political spectrum told Mary Farmer-Kaiser that the Human Library was a great idea, she says she knew she needed to do what she could to make one ...

Every avid reader has probably wished at some point that they could sit down and have a conversation with a character from their favorite book. The Human Library tries to do that by having “human ...