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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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OK4RJ Does CLPP, Has All the Feelings

By On April 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I don’t even know how to begin organizing my thoughts about attending the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Conference (CLPP) for the first time with OK4RJ. Like Jen, I also attended the Transfeminism and Reproductive Justice panel and am convinced that Katherine Cross is the human incarnation of grace, poise, and general [...]

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Red Dirt, Red State: I Love Oklahoma Activists

By On April 18, 2012 · 2 Comments

A few of us from OK4RJ got a great opportunity to travel up to Hampshire College in Amherst, MA for the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Conference (CLPP) this past weekend. There were a variety of panels filled with awesome people (including our favorites, the Dentonites) all meant to share experiences, strategies, and [...]

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“Honor”, Appropriation, and Misuse in Pro-Life Narratives

By On April 12, 2012 · 1 Comment

Reading this story, one might think it was nice of Grove residents to gather and pray for the ‘unborn children that died’ at an illegal abortion clinic, but there’s more to this picture. This article in the Oklahoman makes mention of two women that died at the hands of Dr. Henrie, the [...]

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Why OU Women’s and Gender Studies is important to me and why it should be important to you

By On April 11, 2012 · 1 Comment

We have recently gotten some very bad news in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the University of Oklahoma.  Our funding has been cut in half by the administration.  The only reasons we have been given are that there are budget cuts and that we don’t have enough Majors and Minors.  This is devastating [...]

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Why I Don’t Say Okie

By On April 4, 2012 · 11 Comments

I don’t say Okie because it’s not my word to use. It’s not a slur I get to reclaim or rebrand. I don’t get to use as a synonym for folksy, shabby chic, or git-r-done-ness. There are no Okies in Oklahoma.

 

When I raise my objections to people saying “Okie”, I’m often met with [...]

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The Boys’ Club

By On March 28, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Generally speaking, I feel like an interloper. It’s like I’m in the middle of some secret meeting that I’m not supposed to know about. But everyone seems cool with it because somewhere along the way I received my credentials as “one of the guys”. I’m not sure how I did it, but I like to [...]

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Personhood: coming to a ballot near you

By On March 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Two weeks ago Personhood Oklahoma quietly announced that they would begin collecting signatures to put the personhood issue to a vote this November. I write ‘quietly’ because, despite the press conference, their announcement didn’t seem to garner much media attention. The national media was still focused on the

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Take Root, Red States and Doing It Ourselves

By On March 12, 2012 · 1 Comment

I’m gonna be honest y’all: I was going through some severe burn out right before Take Root. This is really embarrassing, but I got caught up in thinking that OK4RJ and the Student Organizer’s Collective needed to be impressive and organized and that the most important thing was to show off how [...]

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Here To Help: My Story of Location and Activist Identity

By On February 27, 2012 · 2 Comments

Immediately upon graduating from Oklahoma State in December 2009, I moved the hell out of Oklahoma, heading eight hours east to Saint Louis, Missouri. I had no student debt, no pressure to stay from family, a place to live, and graduation money from my generous, middle-class family to help keep my rent paid while I [...]

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