Bluestem Prairie

Bluestem Prairie is a hip (but not cynical) rural magazine for those who prefer take their corn with a progressive chaser and tongue planted firmly in cheek.

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Once an ally, University of Minnesota-Morris student now works for her own freedom to marry

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

Like many teenage girls, Naomi Wente once wrote out a list of the characteristics she sought in a spouse: intelligence, compassion, political involvement.

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Like water to the river: Western Minnesota couple see the freedom to marry as part of state's ethos

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

After a long day of rehabbing the rural Big Stone County farmhouse they've purchased together, Rebecca Terk and John G. White share stories and gumbo at the kitchen table in Terk's home in Clinton. The couple, who will marry this summer, also share a core belief in the freedom to marry.

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Representative Hansen discusses silica sand mining in Save the Bluffs video update

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

One of the best-known (and liked) lobbyists at the Minnesota State capitol is John Kaul, whose candid photos capture the essence, drama and frequent exhaustion of the legislative process. He's also a pretty decent documentary filmmaker who explored the life of Minnesota's first woman state supreme court justice.

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Unbearable victimhood: MN for Marriage brings back the flaming lavender stormtroopers of love

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

During last fall's debate over the amendment to restrict the freedom to marry, one of the spokesters for Minnesota for Marriage (M4M) compared the tactics of Vote No supporters with Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime. M4M quickly repudiated the claim, but has revived the trope in news materials for April 7 church-based organizing.

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