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Civil Rights are for Everyone: Why Ann Coulter’s Logic is Twisted

September 26, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Derrick Clifton When’s the last time you took heed to something Ann Coulter said? Truth is, you probably haven’t. And there’s probably good reason. Coulter’s inflammatory style of discussing […]

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Activism, Editorial, Equality, Feminism, Life, Politics
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On the Right Track: How to Cure Emotional Blah-ness

September 26, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Joshua Isaacson You know that feeling when you just have way too many emotions running rampant throughout your mind and even body? That’s me right about now. I’m coining […]

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Advice, Health, Life
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It Gets Butter: Preamble

September 25, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Patrick Gill It Gets Butter is a new column for In Our Words that complies recipes and stories that go along with them from the author/cooks life.  It is […]

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Body Positivity, Family, It Gets Butter, Life, Memoir
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In The Waiting Room: A Tale of Transnormativity

September 25, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: ellie june navidson i’m sitting in a large, frigid, waiting room. My chair is stiff yet somehow comfortable. i immediately entrench my nose in a novel, not wanting any […]

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Awareness, Genderqueer, Life, Personal
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Close Encounters of the First Kind: When My Partner Met My Family

September 25, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Michael Matthew Overman My partner Frankie and I had been dating for over fifteen months when he finally met my grandmother, Nanny. He’d first met my parents the spring […]

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Coming Out, Family, Gay, Life, Personal
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The Three Stages of Siblingship

September 25, 2012by inourwordsblog 4 Comments

by: Molly Geoghegan Sibling + Relationship = Siblingship; one’s relationship with their sibling.  I am not referring to the DNA test that can be performed in order to discover if […]

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Family, Life, Personal
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A Month of Self-Care and a Fresh Green Field

September 20, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: ellie june navidson Content disclaimer: this is about (recovering from) trauma. Last night i was at an art opening and i ran into someone who really hurt me in […]

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Health, LGBT, Life, Trans
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Why Uma Left

September 20, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by:  Carrie Kaufman  Well, it finally happened. A clear-eyed understanding of their pain and anger and confusion about their other mother moving to Florida. And it was so simple and […]

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Life, Parenting
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I’ve Never Been In Love

September 20, 2012by inourwordsblog 1 Comment

by: Max Alborn  Well, it’s safer to say that I’ve never been in mutual love, where the word was spelled with a capital “L”. I’ve dated a few guys; crushed […]

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Dating, Life, Men, Uncategorized
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More Difficult, More Beautiful

September 20, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Todd Andrew Clayton   When I was 12, I shoplifted. And not the cute, I took-a-piece-of-candy-one-time kind. The we-stole-hundreds-of-dollars-of-video-games-and-had-we-been-caught-would-have-spent-time-in-Juvi kind. At the electronics store, we started with the magazines, […]

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Family, Life

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