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Bureaucracy Busting: LGBTQ Efforts at UT-Austin

May 02, 2014 / Nick / Our Folks
Earlier this week, the Department of Education and the Office for Civil Rights extended the Title IX clause to protect transgender students from discrimination in … Read More

Sexual Violence: Men Breaking the Silence

Apr 17, 2014 / Nick / Our Folks
Jackson Katz in his TED talk about violence against women explains that the problem of discussing sexual violence is that it’s often framed as a … Read More

Lost in Translation: API Sex and Sexuality

Apr 11, 2014 / Nick / Our Folks
The United States suffers from an unfortunate epidemic known as abstinence only programs. These sex after marriage talks are a common procedure in awkward health … Read More

NQAPIA: The Foreign Concept of Home

Apr 08, 2014 / Nick / Our Folks
The biggest parts of my identity consist of being API, queer, and a sweet southern gentleman. Never in my life did I think these three … Read More

Shanesha Taylor: The Case of Punishing the Poor

Mar 28, 2014 / Nick / Our Folks
With the reproductive justice movement, the discussion often gets bogged down in life or death rhetoric. Pro-choice advocates also assume the fight is over as … Read More

Sex-Selection Abortion Bans: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

Mar 21, 2014 / Nick / Our Folks
In 2012, Congress failed to pass the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA), which would ban sex, and race based abortions. Shrouded in faux feminism and blatant … Read More

4 Reasons Why the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court Case is a Big Deal

Mar 19, 2014 / Nick / Our Folks
Recently, there has been a huge uproar over Arizona’s discriminatory bill contrasting religious freedoms and LGBT discrimination. Fortunately, Arizona’s governor vetoed the bill. However, not … Read More

An Open Letter to Judge Orlando Garcia

Feb 28, 2014 / Nick / Our Folks
Thank you. I don’t even think a thank you can express a fraction of how I’m feeling. It’s a kind of I want to run … Read More

TRAPped in Texas

Feb 21, 2014 / Nick / Our Folks
It was just last summer when we experienced Wendy Davis’ monumental filibuster against an anti-choice bill in the Texas Senate. Though the stand for abortion … Read More

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