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Female Empowerment Means Having Options

Apr 21, 2015 / Robyn Smith / Our Folks
I was talking with a friend the other day about a girl she knows—an incredibly smart girl, with a 4.0 GPA in her engineering classes, … Read More

Call It Anti-Choice, Not Pro-Life

Apr 14, 2015 / Robyn Smith / Our Folks
I’ve never understood why “pro-choice” and “pro-life” are considered to be opposites. More specifically, I’ve never understood why people are called pro-life when they would … Read More

Abandon Girl Hate

Apr 07, 2015 / Robyn Smith / Our Folks
Last night, with no explanation, I walked by a girl who I instantly didn’t like. It might have been because she stared at me with … Read More

Florida Bill Further Restricts Abortion Access

Mar 24, 2015 / Robyn Smith / Our Folks
A lot of crazy stuff comes out of Florida. We even have a Twitter called “Florida Man” for all those ridiculous headlines (“Florida Man Seen … Read More

Your Pro-Choice Cheat Sheet: How to Respond to Anti-Abortion Arguments

Mar 17, 2015 / Robyn Smith / Our Folks
Last week, my school was “lucky” enough to play host to an anti-abortion group called Creating Equal. The group stopped by for two days as … Read More

My Pro-Choice Is About More Than Abortion

Mar 10, 2015 / Robyn Smith / Our Folks
Last Friday, I stumbled upon an article originally published by “VICE UK.” The headline, “Being Pro-Choice Isn’t Just About Abortion,” is what drew me in. … Read More

Why Kids, and Adults, Need Diverse Books

Feb 24, 2015 / Robyn Smith / Our Folks
I have a confession: Even now in my twenties, I still almost exclusively read young adult fiction. The “Percy Jackson” series? My jam. “Hunger Games”? … Read More
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Proposed Florida Law Bans Transgender People From Bathrooms

Feb 17, 2015 / Robyn Smith / Our Folks
A couple weeks ago, something truly awful happened in Florida. State Representative Frank Artiles filed a bill, HB 583, that “requires that use of single-sex … Read More

Creating Change: Affirming, Empowering, Inspiring

Feb 10, 2015 / Robyn Smith / Our Folks
This weekend, I attended the Creating Change conference in Denver, hosted by the National LGBTQ Task Force. There, along with 4,000 other individuals, I spent … Read More

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