Just a very quick note today– thesis is still keeping me busy.  I’ve nominated Michele Gregg, who worked as an underground abortion counselor in the 1960s, for the first ever Our Bodies Our Blog “Women’s Health Hero” award.  Please go vote for my video of Michele and then thank your mother’s generation for fighting a [...]

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Just wanted to point your attention to another video I made while in SD.  I thought Brenda, who works as a rape crisis counselor, was incrediblybly passionate and compassionate at the same time– a really tough combination to find, but one that is sorely needed.

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It is nice to see some of my best videos finally going up.  Veronika is a medical student at USD and spoke eloquently and passionately about the importance of keeping the government out of the exam room.
The more I work in the world of reproductive rights the more I repsect people who are willing to [...]

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When I was in SD I had the chance to meet a woman who worked as an underground abortion counselor in the late 1960s.
Talking to her for an hour I gained so much more respect for what our mother’s generation did for women my age– the women involved in Roe v. Wade worked in similar [...]

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PPSD put up another one of my videos today.  It was really important to me to include the voices of men in these videos– I find that all too often pro-choice is seen as women-only.  I don’t think that this is true but I do recognize that the movement needs to get a little better [...]

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Here is some footage I shot at the Sioux Empire Fair last weekend.  Working at the Voices for Choice booth, sponsored by a huge number of organizations like Planned Parenthood, Pastors for Moral Choices, etc was an amazing experience.  Sure, I met a few pretty fanatical anti-choicers but in general South Dakotans were receptive to [...]

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One month in the middle of America has made me re-appreciate how hard it is to go green.  On the coasts, I’ve lived in DC and CA and OR, green is easy, hip, and almost expected.  Out here, there is a natural food coop but that sh*t is pricey.  I still wash my hair with [...]

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Here it is, the fruits of that meeting I had to ditch Mt. Rushmore for on my great trip west… I wouldn’t keep something like this from you.
This is the video I shot a week or so ago while out in Rapid City, SD.  Dr. Marvin Buehner, an OBGYN who specializes in high-risk pregnancies, graciously [...]

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Sorry about the puns, I can’t help myself.  Anyway, hard to believe my time in SD is almost done!  I pack up and head out first thing this coming Sat… Seems so odd how quickly the time here went by, not to mention how much I learned and produced (I know you all haven’t seen [...]

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SD is full of beautiful vinage signs.  I’ve started photographing them but know that I’m only just scratching the surface.  Today I’m posting a few of my favorites.

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