Gender Equality
Latina Veteran Pursues Healing Through Poetry
For Iraq War veteran Lucky Garcia, poetry has become a form of therapy and fuel for her activism in Kansas City.
Say Their Names
Kansas Citians who work with or identify as transgender share some common misconceptions about the transgender community.
Getting Out, Staying Out
Missouri and Kansas are struggling to reduce recidivism, which is a major contributor to overcrowded prisons.
‘It’s a full-contact, mixed-gender sport’
Founded in 2016, the semi-professional club exists on principles of inclusivity and a strong sense of community. If Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley happened to watch the Kansas City Stampede play quidditch in the Major League Quidditch Championships in Richmond, Virginia in early August, they may have thought the Muggles have once again…
Making Gender Parity a ‘We’ Conversation
When Rania Anderson, a Kansas City-based business and management coach, heard it would take another 217 years to reach worldwide gender equity, she was appalled. That’s more than 300 years after women gained the right to vote in America and 271 years since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination. “One of the interesting…