Joni Ernst plays politics with women’s lives
The women of this country are once again a pawn to political rhetoric and continue to wait while Senator Ernst delays reauthorizing life-saving protections in order to appease the NRA.
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My Daughter Was Lucky
My daughter, like 130 million other Americans has pre-existing conditions.
I am Ysa
I am Ysandril Minerva Morrigan. I am a mother. I am a healer. I am a fighter. If you found out after a lifetime of sorrow that you had finally found your answer, would you not fiercely defend and protect it?
The War on Birth Control You Haven’t Heard About
There has been a lot of attention given lately to political attacks on affordable sexual and reproductive health care.
Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
I will not be friendly with someone who thinks that my – or any marginalized group’s – rights are up for debate.
The Right to Exist
We are valid and worthy of existence – and worthy of flourishing and creating a beautiful world for all persons of color, orientation and identity.
Joni Ernst doesn’t speak for my small business
My senator is trying to convince Iowa’s small business owners, like myself, that her Republican tax cut is for us.
A call for unity against terror
Over this weekend a transphobic and neo-nazi based flyer (the stormers club) was found by the Department of Human Services in an undisclosed location in the South side of Des Moines.
Union Appreciation Month
I’m working everyday – in Washington and here in Iowa – to stand with and work for workers. But we can’t do this alone.
I just want to get up one morning and get ready.
I have to exist in the potential that at any given point because I am transgender that my job isn’t secure.