By Kelcie McKenney
I grew up with stubborn women
Who carried the harshness of the world on their backs
Who stomped their feet at disparities
Who lifted their shoulders and did as they pleased
Who threw their head back and laughed at the world

By Kelcie McKenney
I grew up with stubborn women
Who carried the harshness of the world on their backs
Who stomped their feet at disparities
Who lifted their shoulders and did as they pleased
Who threw their head back and laughed at the world

By Kelcie McKenney
Falling in line after Alabama and Georgia, the Missouri state Senate passed HB 126 — a bill that bans abortions after eight weeks, with no exceptions for rape or incest.
Fuck that. I’m pissed, you’re pissed, so what can we do?

Here are a few articles about the recent “rush” to push back on Roe v. Wade—now that the Supreme Court is significantly more conservative.
Continue readingBy Lindsay Bell
help me choke
on the shame of it all
please
fill the space
between these teeth
with prying hands
and coerce these lips
to bring your grace
i am the siren
are are my muse
this place in my heart
is reserved for you

By Kelcie McKenney
When Sav Rodgers walks into a room, he instantly fills it with radiating, invigorating energy. Always wearing a baseball hat—often repping KC on it—he’ll wrap you up in a rush of ideas, complex conversation, questions about who you are, how you’re feeling, what you’re thinking, and why you’re here. At 24 years old, Rodgers is a force to be reckoned with—enough so that you often forget just how young he is.

Today, Rodgers’s Ted Talk went live.
Continue readingBy Lindsay Bell
Sunday morning
We wake to the birds chirping an
Overture to honesty,
A night spent with
Thumbs tracing,