Reading Time: 2 minutes As reported in MilitaryTimes on Tuesday, Florida’s Department of Education announced that in an attempt to fill 9,000 teaching vacancies, veterans can now receive a five-year voucher to teach without a degree. This is part of Florida’s statewide expanded career and workforce opportunities for military veterans that is budgeted at $8.6 million. These vouchers would […]
Ann Herrold
Ann Herrold is a genderqueer writer that has a BA degree in philosophy (focusing on ethics) and a minor in anthropology from the University of Wyoming. They have published several original poems as well as some short stories and personal essays that explore mental health. Their work is filtered through an anti-capitalist lens in the hopes of creating a better world in which to live. When not dealing with crippling anxiety Herrold enjoys making up songs about their cat and making copious amounts of tea.
Posted inDeath & Dying
Speaking of suicide: How institutions harm people they were made to help
Reading Time: 9 minutes TW: suicide, police, child sexual abuse Suicide is a leading cause of death in the United States, and yet it is a taboo conversation. The subject understandably makes most people uncomfortable. But ignoring it only adds to misinformation and mistreatment of people who experience suicidal thoughts and feelings. This can only change by allowing people […]
Posted inPolitics
Republicans building an ‘army’ to fight alleged voter fraud
Reading Time: 2 minutes In an attempt to combat alleged voter fraud, the Republican Party plans to engage in voter fraud with a twist. Politico reported on this plan in early June, in which it stated there are multiple strategy plans to overturn votes in Michigan Democratic precincts. This plan includes installing trained recruits as poll workers as well […]
Posted inPoetry
Eve
Reading Time: 2 minutes You probably know of me But you don’t know me I’m the lion waiting in the den The mystical life force that beckons forth, A line of salamanders and amphibians All morphed together to form me Your queen Truth is I existed only as plot, An evil necessary, If females were not needed for reproduction, […]
Posted inReproductive rights
As other states prepare bans, Colorado etches freedom of choice into state law
Reading Time: 5 minutes In September of last year, my worst nightmare came true: Texas passed a severe ban on abortions and instituted a bounty on anyone attempting to aid or receive abortion health care. It was something right out of a dystopian novel. This had already been a reality for millions of people of color—now it had simply […]