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So You Want To Be An Activist: Cocktail Party Edition

By On December 14, 2011 · 1 Comment

Sometimes I’ll be at a party and someone will inevitably ask the small talk question to end all small talk questions: what do you do?  I hate this question for many reasons (I kind of want to troll and respond with “Y SO EXISTENTIAL?”), the most important of which being that my answer is NSFST [...]

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Treat Yo Self! OK4RJ Does Self-Care

By On December 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment

With finals quickly approaching for most of us, we here at OK4RJ are self-caring like woah! Here’s a non-exhaustive list of our favorite ways to relax. Tell us your favorite methods in the comments! And while you’re at it, check out this vlog from Jen on the importance of caring for yourself while [...]

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Activism As Self-Care: Keep Blowing Your Kazoo

By On October 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment

This is the last article in our October series about Justice for All, the traveling anti-abortion display.

I remember the first time I saw JFA on the OU Campus.  It was a few years ago.  I was so angry, but I didn’t know what to do.  I wanted to scream at them.  I thought about [...]

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On Care and Self-Care

By On October 10, 2011 · 4 Comments

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“I choo-choo-choose you!”: Chosen families and radical activism

By On April 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Chosen family has radicalized my being to the core. Moving from an assimilationist mindset of LGBTQ activism to a Queer concept of rejecting heterosexism, homo/transphobia, and gender norms, has not only changed me as an activist, but it has changed how I love.

Over a year ago, I got engaged to my then partner. I [...]

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