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Kill It Before It Kills You

Karin Kallmaker 09/23/2010 LIFE + STYLE

So get your PAP smear. Get your mammogram. Take care of your girl parts! I did!

#mylesbianfreespeech
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Tis a Good Day!

Karin Kallmaker 08/04/2010 LIFE + STYLE

Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license.

#GoodbyeProp8#righttomarryMarriage Equality
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Apply Acid and Scrub

Karin Kallmaker 12/23/2009 Cheers & Chocolate, LIFE + STYLE

So I look at my nice clean grout and am glad it was optional labor and I get to enjoy the fruits of my scrubbing every day.

#MyBigGayAgenda#perspectiveFirst World Whining

Rampant Communityism in My Little Town

Karin Kallmaker 11/01/2009 LIFE + STYLE, Readers and Libraries

As a good library should, a few of the books I handled were sure to offend me, but I passed them right on; they belong in the library too. Our tiny library collection was actually dwarfed in the new space. Hmmm, maybe they’ll have room for more lesbian fiction titles, then!

#mylesbianfreespeech
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Reality is Not Reality TV

Karin Kallmaker 09/14/2009 Craft of Writing, LIFE + STYLE, Readers and Libraries

Just because I have the passionate commitment about writing to put a story on the page doesn’t mean I have a right to the passionate commitment of others, let alone their money and time. I have to earn it and work to keep it.

#civilitycounts#mylesbianfreespeech#ReadersareEarned
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