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Queering Reproductive Justice

By On March 6, 2012 · 3 Comments

So, I was having a conversation with a colleague of mine the other day, and they were asking me about my experience blogging for OK4RJ. I was talking about loving Oklahoma, and really advocating for progressive voices in the conversation about reproductive rights, to which they replied, “I mean, I get that you’re pro-choice and [...]

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Why Am I Not Surprised? On The Recent Failures of Law Enforcement in Oklahoma

By On February 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Trigger warning: discussion of sexual assault, law enforcement

So my neck of the woods was rocked again this week by reports of a serial rapist confessing to victimizing multiple people, many of them OU students, over a period of 15 years while he was a student and after he left the University.

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On “Teabagging”

By On January 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Sometimes, especially in Oklahoma, we can get caught up in the big picture, and the huge hurdles we’re fighting: fetal pain laws, “personhood”, abortion access, AHA postering, and all the other generally racist, classist, or ridiculous laws proposed for the next legislative session. Victories are few and far between, but I completely overlooked a wonderful [...]

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So You Made a Rape Joke

By On December 6, 2011 · 11 Comments

So you made a rape joke and now people are, like, really, really mad at you.  I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt; maybe you were at a party and the booze made your common sense slip away from you or maybe you were making what you viewed as a flippantly humorous remark on [...]

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