Category: Activism
-
9 Jam Bands with Rocking Female Musicians
I’m halfway through my month-long challenge of listening only to bands that have female members, and I can’t believe how quickly it’s gone! When I started, I asked my readers and Facebook followers to recommend bands for me to check out – and I haven’t even had the time to listen to all of them…
-
Want to stop being a “Bad Feminist?”
Join the month-long challenge to only listen to bands that have at least one female musician! It’s important. It’s fun. And you will discover a lot of great music to add to your playlist! As I was flipping through Rolling Stone the other day (yah know, because I’m a sucker for magazine sales), the absence…
-
The pulse of a movement without a leader
A surge of emotions rippled across the nation yesterday – from the declarations of love to the displays of pride no longer contained to one street or one neighborhood or one parade. How can you not be affected by it all? Yesterday, I posted my story of slow revelation where homosexuality went from being a distant, sinful…
-
My story of how gay became okay for me
Since there is literally nothing else I could post that would be of any consequence considering today’s historic SCOTUS ruling on gay marriage, I’m pulling a story out of the treasure chest. This is about me growing up in the middle America Bible Belt, and the summer I started going to gay bars in Columbus,…
-
Havasupai with guilt
Today, we drive, we wait, we sleep. And tomorrow, as the sun creeps over the mountains, we will descend into the canyon. Into Havasupai Canyon to splash in the blue-green waterfalls. It’s at times like these where I really reflect on my privilege. My whiteness, my middle-class upbringing. I have had numerous opportunities given to…
Trynia Kaufman 