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		<title>Video: I want to know what its like</title>
		<link>http://nonsequiter.com/2012/02/video-i-want-to-know-what-its-like/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nonsequiter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine just posted this video on her Facebook. This is an incredibly powerful documentation of what so many of us in queer communities, trans communities, marginalized communities are living (and dying) for. Grab some tissues and watch this . . . I want to know what its like to stand alongside every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For This I Am Thankful</title>
		<link>http://nonsequiter.com/2011/11/for-this-i-am-thankful-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nonsequiter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has become a tradition among my chosen family that every year at “Thanksvegan” we go around speaking to what we are thankful for. This year I realized I had some huge milestones to be thankful for: Trust Last thanksgiving I decided to take a huge leap by writing letters expressing my trust for three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Are Strong</title>
		<link>http://nonsequiter.com/2011/05/we-are-strong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 16:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I went to the Hands Across Hawthorne rally, which was an event of solidarity created in response to the May 22, 2011 hate crime against two gay men who were attacked by three other men simply because they were holding hands while walking across the Hawthorne Bridge in Portland, OR. [For more information on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Martin Luther King, Jr.</title>
		<link>http://nonsequiter.com/2010/01/martin-luther-king-jr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nonsequiter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you for having the courage to be revolutionary. &#8220;An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. &#8221; &#8212; Martin Luther [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Need Compassion NOW!</title>
		<link>http://nonsequiter.com/2009/11/we-need-compassion-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nonsequiter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nonsequiter.com/?p=351</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just consider it. If you agree visit here to affirm this charter.]]></description>
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		<title>Today Is: National Coming Out Day</title>
		<link>http://nonsequiter.com/2009/10/today-is-national-coming-out-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nonsequiter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nonsequiter.com/?p=336</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Coming Out Day is rooted in the 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights with its AIDS Quilt display. That event is widely regarded as pivotal for the gay community, bringing together and politicizing lesbian and gay men and turning the tide on treatment for people living with HIV and AIDS. Rob Eichberg [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebuilding Hope</title>
		<link>http://nonsequiter.com/2009/09/rebuilding-hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nonsequiter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nonsequiter.com/?p=318</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is so easy to get lost in all that is wrong in the world. There is so much work to be done that it can be absolutely overwhelming. It can also be easy to give up and sink into the &#8220;What can one person do?&#8221; trap. The problem is this thinking creates a self [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Activist Guilt</title>
		<link>http://nonsequiter.com/2009/08/activist-guilt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nonsequiter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nonsequiter.com/?p=316</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[admittedly i feel relatively new to activism. for many reasons that i will not go into in this blog post i was seriously burnt out on taking an active community role which included significant baggage in the shape of fear that reengaging would bring me back to a place where my activism would consume my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dan Savage at Sam Adams Rally</title>
		<link>http://nonsequiter.com/2009/01/dan-savage-at-sam-adams-rally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nonsequiter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to be there, but had another engagement. I am so proud of Portland for showing up in numbers to say, &#8220;it is nobodies damn business what we do in our bedrooms.&#8221; My favorite part of this video is where Dan Savage states that for most of us if our deepest darkest secrets were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hell Yes . . .</title>
		<link>http://nonsequiter.com/2008/12/815/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nonsequiter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[seriously, watch the whole thing. there is a sweet political message at the end]]></description>
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		<title>302.85</title>
		<link>http://nonsequiter.com/2008/11/302-85/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nonsequiter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nonsequiter.com/?p=790</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What, you may ask, is the significance of this number? It is the coding in the DSM for gender identity disorder. Some would reduce my life to this, a number in a book. Well I am more than a number. Today is transgender day of rememberance. Tonight was a candlelight vigil commemorating those transgendered individuals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transgender Day of Remembrance</title>
		<link>http://nonsequiter.com/2008/11/transgender-day-of-remembrance-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nonsequiter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Transgender Day of Remembrance Thursday, November 20 Vigil &#8211; 6:30 p.m. &#124; Performance &#8211; 8:00 p.m. Portland State University Park Blocks (SW Park &#38; Montgomery) Portland, OR 97201 Please join the Human Rights Campaign in conjunction with Portland State University to commemorate the Transgender Day of Remembrance. At 6:30 p.m. there will be a vigil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PDX Prop 8 Protest</title>
		<link>http://nonsequiter.com/2008/11/pdx-prop-8-protest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nonsequiter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m really glad I went. And I&#8217;m even happier that I brought my camera with me to capture the event. I am thankful for what it has reawaken in me. As a side (but no less important) note: I was amazingly blessed post protest by some simple, but sweet time shared with a beloved. Thank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religious campaigns for the White House?</title>
		<link>http://nonsequiter.com/2008/01/religious-campaigns-for-the-white-house/</link>
		<comments>http://nonsequiter.com/2008/01/religious-campaigns-for-the-white-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nonsequiter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nonsequiter.com/?p=630</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of my thesis research I have come across a organization called The Interfaith Alliance which is currently taking part in a campaign called One Nation Many Faiths in partnership with First Freedom First and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. The following is a thought provoking email I wanted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Would Jesus Buy?</title>
		<link>http://nonsequiter.com/2007/11/what-would-jesus-buy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nonsequiter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I went to the opening night of this movie at Cinema 21. We also got to hear from Producer and Co-Director Morgan Spurlock (of Supersize Me &#38; 30 Days) who was there for the two showings last night. Click here for more about Rev. Billy Please go see this film! It&#8217;s very poignant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food For Thought</title>
		<link>http://nonsequiter.com/2007/05/food-for-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 20:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nonsequiter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.&#8221; &#8211; Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146 ~~~ I can not say that I will miss his hatred, but upon hearing of the death [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Know your rights, because they don&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://nonsequiter.com/2006/06/know-your-rights-because-they-dont/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2006 02:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nonsequiter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many of you know, I just graduated with my bachelors in human resource management, as well as have working in the area of human resources for many years. I love advising my friends (and people in general) on their legal rights. Well today an article was published by the Society of Human Resource Management, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shame on you!</title>
		<link>http://nonsequiter.com/2006/06/shame-on-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nonsequiter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today in a DiversityInc. article it is revealed that the Pentagon is still listing homosexuality as a mental disorder 33 years after the APA had declassified it as such. Does this surprise me? No, not with all the other wonderful discoveries coming out about our wonderful government practices. But it does disgust me. When are [...]]]></description>
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