Rodeo Round up: the one where we push back

By On May 18, 2012 · 2 Comments

Molly is eating seafood and drinking bougie coffee in Seattle, so you’re stuck with me. I’ll try to be funny. Lately it seems conservatives have taken their extreme agenda too far and people are pushing back. That trend continued this week.

An Oklahoma judge permanently blocked a law, which

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Good Lorde: Enough with the periods already

By On May 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Hi, hello, what’s up? I want to take this special time of the month when I get to blog at OK4RJ to talk about how we talk about periods (haaa, time of the month. Pun intended. I hate myself.). You know all of that stuff from second wavers, your mom, Your Aunt [...]

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STDs: A Public Service Announcement

By On May 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment

You can repeat the following phrase to yourself as much as you need to, because it’s really, really important: STD’s are a biological, not a moral, reality.

Think of it this way. Your body is made of so many different kinds of cells and configured in a variety of ways, and some areas are more [...]

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Rodeo Roundup

By On May 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Schools out! Oh thank the Lorde! Sorry there wasn’t a post last week given the large amount of news. But I had been waiting 8 years to graduate so I couldn’t pull myself away from writing about such important topics like weaving and pottery. I’m serious. And don’t judge about the 8 years, we all [...]

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Mental illness and taxidermy: Let’s Pretend this Never Happened

By On May 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment

It’s rare that you find an open and honest memoir. Having worked in the publishing industry, I know that the majority of memoirs are used solely as an opportunity to toot one’s horn with every uncomplimentary detail completely left out. But when you do find a memoir that details every nitty gritty [...]

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Wherein Ricky talks about queer health…again.

By On May 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment

This past weekend I was fortunate enough to participate in the New Mexico Public Health Association’s 2012 conference on health disparities. Partnered with the New Mexico CARES Health Disparities Center, NMPHA brought us “Integration, Innovation & Inspiration – Creating a Healthy New Mexico.” The conference was [...]

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All of the CLPP

By On April 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment

*CLPP refers to the Civil Liberties and Public Policy program at Hampshire College

Arielle currently spends her time reading, biking, and wizard dueling.

 

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Rodeo Roundup: Zombies at the Capitol

By On April 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment

What a week! I got a tooth filled and then accidentally overdosed on OTC cough syrup. I’m okay now, thanks for asking. Yes, I’m a grown up. No, I don’t wanna talk about it anymore.

So if the personhood bill were, umm, a person..it would’ve died last week and then came back to life this [...]

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On Uncertainty & Empathy

By On April 26, 2012 · 1 Comment

I want to start a discussion about the importance of uncertainty. I found out today that I was not selected for the latest salaried position I applied to. At first I got pissed off and even cried a bit (I do have nearly $43,000 in student loans…) then, after freaking out about my financial uncertainties, [...]

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My Little Collapse Post

By On April 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I’ve been thinking about patterns lately. Not the aesthetically-pleasing type, either. No, I’ve been thinking about large-scale patterns of abuse, destruction, and decline. Hate to break it to you, but the global economy is in the terlet and our fossil-fuel based industrial capitalism is straight-up collapsing in on itself, and that is

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