We canned our own tomatoes and turned ice cream by hand but also traveled to the East Coast for b’nai mitzvah.
This summer a little town of a few thousand near my family’s farm held a Pride parade — for the fourth time.
There’s even a small queer community at the little high school I attended.
These so-called red states are their home, and many of them will raise families there.
Kansas was, after all, the first state to reject — resoundingly — an effort to roll back abortion access after Roe was struck down.
Persons:
peck, —, John Prine, “, George Eliot, Rosa Luxemburg, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Angela Davis, Pete Seeger, I’d, Matthew Shepard’s, Kris Kobach, Roe
Organizations:
University of California, Columbia Law School, United Farm Workers, Oakland, Mennonite, for Rural Culture
Locations:
Oakland, Berkeley, Kansas, California, East Coast, There’s, Kansas , Texas , Ohio, New York