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Identity Among Difference

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-Dayna Juchmes

June Jordan’s narrative helped me to look at the several different facades of how we compare, rate or identify ourselves amongst people foreign or local. What stood out to me the most was when June realized that she was identifying with these people in terms of class, where she stood and where everyone else stood instead of in terms of gender or in relation to a united sisterhood of women. That was definitely not the general feeling. Class dominated and stripped any bonding connection that could be linked to a smear inkling of a sisterly sentiment. “We are not particularly women anymore; we are parties to a transaction designed to set us against each other” (161).  Read more...

Can You Help This Researcher?

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—Eric Dean

Have you read LGBTQ ‘coming out’ advice brochures or LGBTQ ally advice brochures?  Do you have insights on whether they were helpful or not?  Would you like to improve them? If you have had experience with LGBTQ “coming out” advice brochures and/or LGBTQ ally advice brochures and want to help improve them, I am currently working on a terminal research project for my MS in communication studies program here at EWU, geared at improving coming out brochures, and I am asking those of you with experience with either type of brochure to help me assess the perceived effectiveness, usefulness, strengths, and weaknesses of ‘coming out’ advice brochures and ally advice brochures by filling out the survey that corresponds with your experience as a member of the LGBTQ population or as an LGBTQ ally with their respective types of brochures.  I greatly appreciate any insights that you can give me!  More information on the questionnaires and the links to the websites that the questionnaires can be found at can be found within.

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War on Nun’s Too?

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As many of you may not know, my sister is entering the nunnery (I did not make that word up and if you don’t believe me, read Hamlet), so I have been keeping tabs on Catholic news. No, I am not Catholic, if that was your next quandary as it always seems to be a logical follow-up. Yes, I am supportive of my sister (the next common inquiry). I just hope that the Catholic Church will rethink their outdated teachings and contradictory ones at that.  Read more...

Good Poetry to Start the Week

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Today I have three poems by Michele Burkey to share with you. This series shows the contrast between giving birth in a hospital setting, and giving birth at home. The difference in tone between her representations of the two couldn’t be more apparent. In a culture of increased medicalization of childbirth, and a country where unnecessary c-sections cost women 3.5 billion dollars a year, poems like these are essential. Not only do they enrich our lives in the way that only art can, but they also serve as a catalyst for increased conversation and awareness of issues that affect us all. (Empowerment) and (Refuge) originally appeared in Rock & Sling.  Read more...

Birth Controlz

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A recent Jezebel article “Americans Find Just About Everything More Sinful Than Birth Control” stated that after the most recent Gallup poll it was found that 9 out of 10 Americans approve of birth control as morally sound within their own social spheres. This is an interesting juxtaposition to the frequented media propagation that birth control is an outlandish moral compromise. If 90 % of Americans approve of the implementation and necessity of birth control how is it that we are still refuting organizations such as Planned Parenthood?  Read more...