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Kimberly Brock, 36th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textKimberly Brock, a former actor and special needs educator, is a Georgia Author of the Year 2013 nominee. Her debut novel, The River Witch, a southern mystical work, has been chosen by two national book clubs. Kimberly\u27s writing has appeared in anthologies and magazines. When she is not working on her next novel, she is the Blog Network Coordinator for She Reads national online book club
Disability, Procreation, and Justice in the United States
No full textParenting and procreation have long been contested legal terrain in the United States as exemplified by a history of abuses against marginalized populations including people with disabilities. While some of the most egregious abuses, such as state sponsored sterilization programs, are relics of the past, it remains true that people with disabilities face distinct and at times insurmountable roadblocks to procreation and parenting. This article details ongoing forms of procreative discrimination against people with disabilities, rejects common justifications for that discrimination, and offers proposals for better protecting the rights to procreate and parent for disabled people.Peer reviewe
Procreative Pluralism
No full textThis article offers a modern approach to evaluating the right to non-coital reproduction that centers on the concept of procreative pluralism. Using lessons taught by reproductive justice scholars and advocates, the article reframes reproductive autonomy and reproductive equality so as to avoid the pitfalls of each and offers a justice account of why constitutional protection of assisted
reproduction is critical.
The article argues that the fundamental right to procreate as protected by the Constitution includes a fundamental right to use assisted reproduction. Unlike other scholarship, the article rejects the basis of this right as liberty/autonomy or equality standing alone and posits that a justice framework is best for protecting and balancing the procreative interests at play when people use assisted reproduction. Given the fundamental rights argument, the article argues that justice requires extensive protection of the right to procreate and exacting scrutiny of legislative attempts to interfere with that right. It goes beyond other scholars who have made this claim by also determining that the state may have positive obligations to provide some people with access to assisted reproduction services. To reconcile the importance of the procreative right with the compelling nature of state interests in procreation, the article offers a two-tiered system of constitutional review of the fundamental right to noncoital procreation in which those who wish to procreate and parent receive greater protection than those who wish to procreate for profit. Finally, the article articulates principles for regulation based on the structure of a two-tiered right and offers ideas for how to reconcile the fundamental rights analysis with legitimate justice concerns about potential harms to individuals and society fromthe use of assisted reproduction
Cultivating and Refining Clinical Knowledge and Practice: Relating the Boyer Model to Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarship
No full textThis article discusses the importance of collaboration between faculty members with clinical and research focused doctoral degrees. The barriers to obtaining tenure for clinical faculty members as compared to the research prepared faculty members are presented. Best practice outcomes are accomplished by using a team approach. The team uses the strenths of each of the academic bacgrounds, connecting them in collaboration and professionalism. Support for each other, with the Nursing community, provides empowerment and success in both patient outcomes and clinical excellence.Peer reviewe
Kimberly Blaeser Reading
No full textThe current poet laureate for Wisconsin returned to the College of Saint Benedict for a reading and residency Nov. 15-18.
Kimberly Blaeser, a 1977 graduate of CSB, held a reading free and open to the public at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, in the Teresa Reception Center Boardroom, Main Building, CSB.
Blaeser works as a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she teaches creative writing, Native American literature and American nature writing. She hails from Anishinaabe ancestry and is a native of the White Earth Reservation in northwestern Minnesota.
She is the author of three collections of poetry: Apprenticed to Justice (2007), Absentee Indians and Other Poems (2002) and Trailing You (1994). Blaeser has also edited two other books on Anishinaabe and Ojibwe poetry.
Her current creative project features Picto-Poems, and brings Blaeser\u27s poetry together with her wildlife photography to explore intersecting ideas about Native place, nature, preservation and spiritual sustenance.
Blaeser\u27s poetry dwells deeply on a complex, natural world - which includes the power of human imagination. These poems are small sure lights in the darkness - poems to lead us home, said poet and musician Joy Harjo of Absentee Indians and Other Poems.
Blaeser sees her position as poet laureate of Wisconsin as a gift that needs to be shared to the public.
Sometime in the history of this country, poetry got a bad rap, she said. Those who love poetry, but especially those who read or pen poetry in private, need permission and encouragement to be the shining poetry nerds they may long to be!
She will be residency from Nov. 15-18, visiting classes and working with students from CSB and Saint John\u27s University.
Both events are presented in collaboration with the CSB Literary Arts Institute (LAI) and the Fine Arts Series at CSB and SJU
Anna and Kimberly Henderson, 1968
No full textView of Anna Henderson, wife of Dr. Vivian Wilson Henderson, with daughter Kimberly Anne Henderson
Interview of community organizer, teacher, and author Maurice Broaddus
No full textCommunity organizer, teacher, and author Maurice Broaddus is interviewed by University of Florida doctoral student Kimberly Williams following the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Eatonville, Florida. He talks about how faith and hope informs his writing and activism work, and shares how as a student, he originally majored in biology but later transitioned into creative writing. Broaddus speaks of his start in the horror genre and how that was his genesis to work through rage and pain. He explains what Afrofuturism means to him and how it parallels his activism regarding oral history, community engagement, and teaching. Maurice states "Afrofuturism offers us a chance to see ourselves" and that the Zora Neale Hurston's scholarship and Afrofuturism tenets both promote living and creating an authentic self
The unshuttered heart: a memoir of love, loss, and reclamation
No full textThe Unshuttered Heart is a personal memoir written in essays of varying lengths. It tells the story of a sheltered young woman who grows up lonely and feeling out of place. She finally meets another young woman who is also attracted to women and the two begin a passionate relationship. They are happy together, despite her partner’s chronic illness, and Kimberly’s giving up her writing. Kimberly eventually takes on the role of caretaker and solebreadwinner, and is devasted when Erin dies of a colon infection. She tries to navigate her grief in a world that does not recognize lesbian widows. Eventually, with much heartache and work, she refocuses on her dreams.M.F.A.by Kimberly William
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