- 1. Sundance 2023 Dispatch #2- Polite Society, Pow Wow's and Sarah Snoo
- (Movies)
- ... on the Seneca-Cayuga Reservation in Oklahoma. The film follows Jax, a queer woman (Lily Gladstone), determined to find her missing sister Tawi while also caring for her 13-year-old niece Roki, (Isabel ...
- Created on 22 January 2023
- 2. Lizzo Shared Her Shine with Powerful Activists During Her People's Choice Award Acceptance Speech: Meet All 17 of The
- (Entertainment)
- ... to strengthen our Health). Crystal Echo Hawk @illumiNative Member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, Crystal Echo Hawk amplifies native voices through her organization Illuminative. By building power ...
- Created on 08 December 2022
- 3. 5 Transgender Folks to Commemorate in Honor of Transgender Remembrance Day
- (Living)
- ... of the LGBTQ club at his college Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Club Q was the first nightclub or bar to hire Aston as a drag queen. He was a self-proclaimed ‘Master of Silly Business,’ ...
- Created on 22 November 2022
- 4. Queer Period Pieces Like Abbi Jacobson's "A League Of Their Own" Are A Reminder That LGBTQ Rights Are Still Under Atta
- (TV)
- ... Then, this past August, a teacher in my homestate of Oklahoma, faced termination, and was later forced to resign, because she provided her students access to books by writers like Zora Neal Hurston, poet Maya ...
- Created on 13 October 2022
- 5. PSA: Trigger Laws Illegalize Abortion in Texas and Tennessee, More States To Follow Suit
- (Feminism)
- ... individual states including South Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas, Kentucky, and more, one by one, following the ruling at the federal level. Today, abortion bans are going into effect in Idaho, Oklahoma, ...
- Created on 26 August 2022
- 6. Devery Jacobs of "Reservation Dogs" Talks The Power of Indigenous Stories and Stepping Into Her Own As a Queer Woma
- (TV)
- ... who bring mischief to their rural Oklahoma town. The series was created by Indigenous storytellers Sterlin Harjo, who is also the showrunner, and Taika Waititi, who is best known for writing What We Do ...
- Created on 01 March 2022
- 7. 10 Must-Watch TV Shows To Get Your Cathartic Coming-Of-Age Fix Now That ‘PEN15’ Is Over
- (TV)
- ... writer, director, and actor Taika Waititi and the Seminole and Muscogee Creek award-winning filmmaker Sterlin Harjo, Reservation Dogs follows four Indigenous-teenagers living on reservation in rural Oklahoma. ...
- Created on 19 January 2022
- 8. In Honor of Native-American Heritage Month Here Are 5 Indigenous Women History Makers You Should Have Learned About in Social Studies Class
- (Feminism)
- ... of the Osage Nation? Considered one of the most important dancers in American history, Maria Tallchief took the ballet world by storm. A brilliant dancer from a very young age, the Oklahoma native became ...
- Created on 15 November 2021
- 9. Child Marriage in America: How Courtney Stodden and Other Girls Are Being Forced To Marry Their Rapists
- (Feminism)
- ... other states also have no minimum age requirement for marriage—Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming—which means ...
- Created on 12 November 2021
- 10. Karen Dalton Documentary—Behind the Scenes With "In My Own Time" Co-Directors: BUST Intervie
- (Movies)
- ... premiere on October 8th in Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, and Tulsa before being released to streaming platforms on November 16. [This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity purposes.] Photos: ...
- Created on 29 September 2021
- 11. Mutual Aid To The Rescue: Check Out These Seven Pro-Choice Organizations Providing Resources in the Midst of Texas' Near-Total Abortion Ban
- (Feminism)
- ... of Abortion Funds, working to pay for Texans' travel to abortion clinics near eastern and northern Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. The Texas House Bill 2, a 2013 ban on abortion 20 weeks post-fertilization, ...
- Created on 09 September 2021
- 12. 8 Excellent Books By Immigrant Authors To Read This National Immigrant Heritage Month
- (Books)
- ... of the country as a whole. 1. Refuge: A Novel by Dina Nayeri Image via Penguin Random House At 10 years old, Nayeri immigrated to Oklahoma from Tehran. Refuge is a semi autobiographical novel that tells ...
- Created on 14 June 2021
- 13. Here Are Five Black Women Behind Your Favorite Bops Sung By Ariana Grande, Beyonce, & More
- (Music)
- ... as Cynthia Rose in the blockbuster franchise Pitch Perfect, but Ester Dean’s artistic foundation is in music. Hailing from Oklahoma, this singer-songwriter-actor used songwriting as an emotional outlet ...
- Created on 28 May 2021
- 14. Lana Del Rey's "Chemtrails Over the Country Club" Is Her Least Controversial Album — And One Of Her Be
- (Music)
- ... I was better off/’Cause it made me feel... like a god.” In “Tulsa Jesus Freak,” she dreams of going back to Arkansas (even though Tulsa is, of course, a city in Oklahoma). In a 2021 article for Harper’s ...
- Created on 24 March 2021
- 15. COVID-19 Has Made Access To Reproductive Healthcare Evasive, As If Getting An Abortion Wasn't Already Hard Enough in Americ
- (Living)
- ... throughout the Covid-19 epidemic,” including those running Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Oklahoma. View this post on Instagram ...
- Created on 23 February 2021
- 16. Meet the Next Generation of Superstar Activists: Exclusive BUST Interviews
- (Feminism)
- ... States. “People are terrified of labor organizing because this country has a terrible history of union busting,” says the Oklahoma native, whose pronouns are fae/faer. “A lot of workers feel disempowered—particularly ...
- Created on 15 February 2021
- 17. Deb Haaland Might Become The First-Ever Native Cabinet Member
- (General)
- ... that would “cross Indigenous lands in South Dakota, Oklahoma, and a few other states.” The Trump administration has also attempted to cut funding of Indigenous education and COVID-19 protections. In an ...
- Created on 19 November 2020
- 18. What You Need To Know Now: Election Day Victories + Vote Counting Updates
- (Feminism)
- ... first openly transgender legislator. Mauree Turner, from Oklahoma, is the country’s first openly non-binary state lawmaker. Female politicians of color also won big last night. All four members of “the ...
- Created on 04 November 2020
- 19. Why Native Activists Are Decolonizing COVID Relief On The Reservation
- (Living)
- FROM FOOD, TO HOUSING, to health care, indigenous people in America have been exploited and neglected by the governments set up by European colonizers since the 1600s. Federal policies enacted to exert ...
- Created on 14 September 2020
- 20. The 100th Anniversary of (Some) Women's Suffrage: Did YOUR state support women's right to vote? Check this state-by-state history of the fight for suffrage in Ameri
- (Feminism)
- ... the 19th amendment on December 1, 1919. Oklahoma Temperance played a major role in most southern women’s suffrage movements. In Oklahoma, the movement started in 1890 by the Woman's Christian Temperance ...
- Created on 18 August 2020
