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Can We Stop Pretending “Religious Liberty” is the Real Motivation for Legislation?

Feb 10, 2014 / Katherine / Our Folks
You know, after getting back from a national conference with 4,000 queer folks and allies, I was floating on a little rainbow hued cloud, having … Read More

Creating Change: Finally Feeling “Queer Enough”

Feb 07, 2014 / Katherine / Our Folks
The language I use to describe how I identify my space within the LGBT community changes day to day. Sometimes I call myself bi, sometimes … Read More

Creating Change 2014: We Need our Differences to Build Solidarity

Feb 03, 2014 / Katherine / Our Folks
I’m writing this post as I wait for my flight to take me back to Kansas City and away from Houston, Texas where I’ve just … Read More

Kansas Legislators: Stop Playing Doctor and Start Growing Up

Jan 27, 2014 / Katherine / Our Folks
Kansas isn’t new the notion of politicians saying and doing ridiculous and inappropriate things when it concerns reproductive rights. Hell, just in the past few … Read More

Make Roe Real: Buffer Zones, and Drawing the Line Between Freedom of Speech and Violence

Jan 22, 2014 / Katherine / Our Folks
In the summer of 2012, I attended the Youth Organizing Policy Institute (YOPI) hosted by Planned Parenthood.  It was the first reproductive policy conference (or … Read More

Having the Reproductive Justice Talk with Your Parents

Jan 06, 2014 / Katherine / Our Folks
Most of my activist friends, myself included, have developed political values leaning far left than those of their parents possess and raised them with.   And, … Read More

An Infectious Silence: Stigma and the Persistence of HIV Among Young People

Dec 02, 2013 / Katherine / Our Folks
Yesterday was World AIDS Day, and there were a great deal of new coverage documenting it—reports of how we’ve progressed since AIDS became a full-fledged … Read More

Some Words for the Man Who Told Me I Should Be Ashamed

Nov 18, 2013 / Katherine / Our Folks
The summer of 2012, I was a public affairs intern at Planned Parenthood Advocates of Kansas and Mid-Missouri. I’d  just finished my freshman year, and … Read More

Drinking, My Campus, and Sexual Assault: Or Why (Some) Men Don’t Care

Nov 11, 2013 / Katherine / Our Folks
A little over a week ago, an article by Al Jazeera featuring students from the University of Kansas—my campus—caused an uproar with my fellow student … Read More

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