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Karen Dalton Documentary—Behind the Scenes With "In My Own Time" Co-Directors: BUST Intervie
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(Movies)
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... 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.]
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Created on 29 September 2021
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Mutual Aid To The Rescue: Check Out These Seven Pro-Choice Organizations Providing Resources in the Midst of Texas' Near-Total Abortion Ban
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(Feminism)
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... 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, ...
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Created on 09 September 2021
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8 Excellent Books By Immigrant Authors To Read This National Immigrant Heritage Month
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(Books)
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... 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 ...
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Created on 14 June 2021
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Here Are Five Black Women Behind Your Favorite Bops Sung By Ariana Grande, Beyonce, & More
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(Music)
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... 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 ...
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Created on 28 May 2021
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Lana Del Rey's "Chemtrails Over the Country Club" Is Her Least Controversial Album — And One Of Her Be
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(Music)
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... 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 ...
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Created on 24 March 2021
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COVID-19 Has Made Access To Reproductive Healthcare Evasive, As If Getting An Abortion Wasn't Already Hard Enough in Americ
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(Living)
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... throughout the Covid-19 epidemic,” including those running Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Oklahoma.
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Created on 23 February 2021
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Meet the Next Generation of Superstar Activists: Exclusive BUST Interviews
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(Feminism)
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... 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 ...
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Created on 15 February 2021
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Deb Haaland Might Become The First-Ever Native Cabinet Member
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(General)
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... 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 ...
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Created on 19 November 2020
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What You Need To Know Now: Election Day Victories + Vote Counting Updates
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(Feminism)
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... 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 ...
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Created on 04 November 2020
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Why Native Activists Are Decolonizing COVID Relief On The Reservation
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(Living)
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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 ...
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Created on 14 September 2020
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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
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(Feminism)
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... 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 ...
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Created on 18 August 2020
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5 Things We Wished We Missed This Weekend—But You Probably Shouldn'
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(Entertainment)
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... News, West missed the deadline to qualify for the presidential ballot in many states. He is currently only confirmed to be on the ballot in Oklahoma and is urging fans and followers in South Carolina to ...
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Created on 20 July 2020
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Washington's Football Team Is (FINALLY) Changing Its Name and Log
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(Entertainment)
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... of Washington NFL team name courtesy of Fibonacci Blue via Wikimedia Commons.
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Supreme Court Rules That Nearly Half Of Oklahoma Is Officially Native American Land
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Created on 13 July 2020
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Supreme Court Rules That Nearly Half of Oklahoma Is Officially Native American Land
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(Feminism)
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In a 5-4 decision on Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that much of the state of Oklahoma is Native territory. This ruling means that only federal authorities, as opposed to state prosecutors, can charge ...
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Created on 10 July 2020
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Recent Legislation is Putting the Rights of Transgender Youth At Risk
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(Feminism)
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... Kessling noted, this is not the first piece of legislation in the United States as of late that severely threatens the rights of transgender individuals. In South Carolina, Florida, Oklahoma, Missouri, ...
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Created on 24 January 2020
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These 3 Indigenous Designers Blend Tradition And Style
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(Style)
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As a Tsalagi-citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, I know firsthand that Indigenous people have always been inventive fashionistas. The long, printed Cherokee tear dress, for example, is believed ...
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Created on 29 August 2019
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From Blasey Ford to Kavanaugh: The Highs And Lows Of TIME’s 100 List
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(Entertainment)
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... others have since done in Oklahoma, Arizona, California and beyond—it is a message to all of us. If teachers are standing up, you can stand up.”
Brie Larson: Tribute by Tessa Thompson. Most recently, ...
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Created on 17 April 2019
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Doctors Regularly Give Anesthesized Patients Non-Consensual Pelvic Exams—And This Needs To Stop
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(Feminism)
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... of Oklahoma “found that a large majority of medical students had given pelvic exams to gynecologic surgery patients who were under anesthesia, and that in nearly three quarters of these cases the women ...
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Created on 12 September 2018
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Mary G. Ross, The First Native American Woman Engineer, Honored In Today’s Google Doodle
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(Living)
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... space travel.
But before all of that, Mary Ross was born in 1908 in Park Hill, Oklahoma to a Cherokee family. Her great-great grandfather was Cherokee Chief John Ross. According to The Independent, the ...
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Created on 09 August 2018
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DJ Who Got Fired For Groping Taylor Swift Gives Ridiculous, Sexist Interview Insisting He's A "Gentleman": Link Round
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(Feminism)
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Mentally Ill Inmates Aren’t Receiving Necessary Treatment
Journalist Alisa Roth visited five jails—four in major U.S. cities, and one in rural Oklahoma—to research conditions and healthcare options ...
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Created on 11 July 2018
