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Pledging allegiance to what?

July 13, 2019 by Kyle Labe

“Why celebrate awful things, simply because its result was good?”

Categories: Blog • Tags: america, Blog, blogger, country, Essay, fourth of july, global, globalism, history, independence day, international, literature, national, national news, nationalism, news, patriotism, personal, politics, reads, usa, writing

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Pride will always be necessary

June 9, 2019 by Kyle Labe

“The summer of high school graduation was my first Pride.”

Categories: Blog • Tags: Blog, blogger, coming out, feminism, gay, history, LGBT, LGBTQ, literature, longreads, new, new blog, news, personal, politics, pride, pride month, pride parade, queer, queer art, queer community, quick reads, read, reads, the closet, usa, writing

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A woman’s choice is a woman’s voice

May 18, 2019 by Kyle Labe

“I never found abortion to be a question of morals, but rather an issue of human rights.”

Categories: Blog • Tags: abortion, alabama, america, Blog, blogger, Essay, family, feminism, feminist, history, national news, new, new blog, news, personal, politics, pro-choice, religion, reproductive justice, reproductive rights, secular, south, stories, usa, women's lib, women's rights, world, world news, writing

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The nuclear bomb on nuclear families

May 5, 2019 by Kyle Labe

“The whole concept of human contact in the modern age has become corporatized.”

Categories: Blog • Tags: Blog, blogger, books, college, communism, community, environment, Essay, family, feminism, history, longreads, marriage, marxism, new blog, news, parent, personal, politics, public, quick reads, read, reads, religion, short, usa, world, world news, writing

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Some of my favorite books

April 14, 2019 by Kyle Labe

“With this, I hope to mend that and hope that you, as well, will find a recommendation or two to add to your personal list.”

Categories: Blog • Tags: Blog, blogger, book, books, college, feminism, fiction, genre, library, literature, longreads, new, new blog, news, novel, personal, poems, Poetry, politics, quick reads, read, reads, sci fi, story, world, world news, writing

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The struggle to be a ‘real man’

March 31, 2019 by Kyle Labe

“To straight people, it’s as if to simply be gay is the same as being too gay for comfort.”

Categories: Blog • Tags: Blog, blogger, book, books, college, community, Essay, experimental, feminism, feminist, friends, friendship, gay, history, identity, LGBT, LGBTQ, literature, longreads, news, patriarchy, personal, politics, queer, queer art, queer community, quick reads, reads, stories, usa, world, writing

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Libraries are the closest thing to Heaven on Earth

March 17, 2019 by Kyle Labe

“Libraries are one of the few traditional institutions where I believe humanity did something right by conceiving it.”

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Losing my religion

March 3, 2019 by Kyle Labe

“Even before I realized my queerness, I knew that something about Christianity was very, very wrong.”

Categories: Blog • Tags: Blog, books, christianity, Essay, faith, feminism, future, gay, history, LGBT, LGBTQ, longreads, marriage, methodist, national, national news, new, news, organized religion, past, personal, politics, power, quick reads, read, reads, religion, secular, spirituality, stories, story, usa, world, world news, writing

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I always have great sympathy for women leaders

February 17, 2019 by Kyle Labe

I always gravitate to these women, these same ones who are constantly overlooked by history, for their capacity to convey both power and compassion, loyalty and heart, in the face of severe threat and danger.

Categories: Blog • Tags: Blog, books, classics, college, election, Essay, feminism, feminist, future, history, kylelabewriting fiction & poetry, leaders, literature, longreads, national news, new, news, nonfiction, personal, politics, power, quick reads, read, reads, story, time, women leaders, world, world news, writing

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I may be a writer, but I am no speaker

February 3, 2019 by Kyle Labe

That is why I will stick to writing. Here, I can hide behind anonymity; I mustn’t show my face and be exposed as the human being I am.

Categories: Blog • Tags: anxiety, Blog, books, butterflies behind glass, college, Essay, fiction, future, kylelabewriting, kylelabewriting fiction & poetry, literature, news, none, past, personal, public, read, reads, speaking, stories, world, writer, writers, writing

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