Singles’ Pride: The Best Things About Not Being in A Relationship
by: Kara Crawford So, you’re single. Society, of course, tells you there’s obviously a problem with you, because everyone in their right mind over the age of 12 should so […]
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Community Is Tasty: Why Queers Love Potlucks
by: Kara Crawford I grew up on potlucks. I don’t know if it was simply my upbringing or if other people had similar experiences, but they always played an active […]
Intersectional Spaces: What Queer and Religious Allyship Has Meant To Me
by: Kara Crawford As should be evident from many of my IOW posts, I’m a United Methodist, through-and-through. I’m almost just as strongly an extremely committed progressive, though I only […]
Hoping and Waiting: My Work In Social Justice
by: Kara Crawford I had a recent conversation with the owner of my apartment. I live in Colombia, so we were speaking in Spanish, and on this particular occasion we […]
Former President George W. Bush Is Now (Symbolically) a War Criminal
by: Kara Crawford A couple of weeks ago, former President George W Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and five key legal advisors were convicted […]
God Hates No One: A Hopeful Counter Protest to the WBC
by: Kara Crawford Recently a nine-year-old boy, Josef Miles, achieved internet fame when he staged a one-person counter-protest to Westboro Baptist Church, holding a small sign made of pencil on […]
Moving To the Margins: The Power Gained When Someone Yields Privilige
by: Kara Crawford It was just like any other early May morning in Tampa, hot and muggy. The General Conference of The United Methodist Church, the main decision-making body of […]
You Can’t Stop the Beat: Bringing Change to the UMC
by: Kara Crawford For the last week of April and the first week of May, I spent my time in Tampa, FL. No, it wasn’t some sort of Girls Gone […]
Suggested Stops for Obama’s Next Trip to Colombia
by: Kara Crawford Obama landed in Cartagena, Colombia last Friday for the Summit of the Americas, accompanied by a delegation of about 700 people. This sixth Summit of the Americas, […]
Reasons to Live (Part Two)
by: IOW Staff Today is our second installment of “Reasons to Live,” where the In Our Words staffers list some of the things that make life worth living right now. […]
