#Kittrel

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Every time I see the chapter headers for Younce and the taiga gryphons, I think to myself: "That'd make a great sticker in pink."

Kittrel/YoteNotes does the chapter headers and ornamented scene breaks for GryphIns and always does a great job =] Pridelord has a couple of new ones coming up.

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I'm A Woman - Christine Kittrell (It's Nobody's Fault / I'm A Woman, 1962)

[agirlnamedbone]

Grant Kittrell at Terrain.org (2023)

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Crowdfunding Corner: Epiphany Engine brings together over 70 Black creators and over 40 publishers

Crowdfunding Corner: Epiphany Engine brings together over 70 Black creators and over 40 publishers #comics #graphicnovel

Backer Beware: Crowdfunding projects are not guaranteed to be delivered and/or delivered when promised. We always recommend to do your research before backing. Over 70 Black creators are teaming up with Advent Comics and over 40 comic book and graphic novel publishers for the cosmic crossover project Epiphany Engine, a 192-page graphic novel. The project which launches with a Kickstarter…

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boy, you make me hubba-bubble pop 🫧

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A basal trapdoor spider (Liphistius desultor) poises at the entrance of its den in Penang, Malaysia

by Roy Kittrell

[coochiequeens]

The perv can keep anonymous but the actual women will be doxxed and threatened if they go through with the lawsuit. All the whole the college administrators who allowed this to happen in the first place are able to pat themselves on the back for being progressive enough to let a man into a sorority.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Seven women who have sued to challenge the admission of a transgender woman to their sorority at the University of Wyoming can't remain anonymous in court, a judge has ruled in a case highlighting tension over belonging for transgender people in the least-populated state.

The women must refile their lawsuit with their real names by April 20, U.S. District Judge Alan Johnson in Cheyenne wrote Thursday.

“The bottom line is this. Lawsuits are public events, and the public, especially here, has an important interest in access to legal proceedings," Johnson wrote. “Plaintiffs may not levy serious accusations without standing behind them.”

The seven women identify themselves only as “Jane Does" in their lawsuit filed March 27 accusing Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority of breaking its own rules while admitting the transgender woman last fall. The sorority national office pressured the University of Wyoming chapter to violate those rules, the lawsuit alleges.

The transgender woman, identified in the lawsuit only by the pseudonym “Terry Smith,” also is a defendant. Johnson is not requiring disclosure of her identity.

The women suing said they needed anonymity for privacy and safety reasons, including a likelihood of threats and harassment due to the lawsuit. Johnson ruled that they didn't meet the legal standard for anonymity, however.

An attorney for the seven women, John Knepper, declined to comment Friday on Johnson's order but said he planned to file a court document responding to it soon.

Smith declined to comment in an email Friday.

The lawsuit claims her presence in the Kappa Kappa Gamma house made some sorority members uncomfortable. Smith would sit on a couch for hours while “staring at them without talking,” the lawsuit alleges.

The lawsuit asks Johnson to declare Smith’s sorority membership void and to award unspecified damages. The damages should reflect the local chapter’s decline in financial stability and donations because of Smith’s induction last fall, the lawsuit alleges.

Kappa Kappa Gamma officials declined to comment Friday on Johnson's order. Executive Director Kari Kittrell Poole has said previously the lawsuit contains numerous false allegations.

Smith, 21, doesn’t live among the 44 women currently residing in the Sorority Row house because of housing commitments elsewhere, according to the lawsuit.

The University of Wyoming campus in Laramie has a long history of wrangling with LGBTQ+ issues since the murder of gay freshman Matthew Shepard in 1998 drew attention to them nationwide. Wyoming, along with South Carolina, is one of just two states that has not adopted a hate-crimes law since Shepard’s murder.

Republican Gov. Mark Gordon recently allowed a ban on transgender athletes in precollege interscholastic athletics to become law without his signature.

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New fan art from Kittrel of the giant kakapo Zeph encounters in the first chapter of Eyrie. Except this time, the ground parrots have gotten even bigger! 🙀 🙀 🙀

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A lawsuit filed by sorority members at the University of Wyoming to block a transgender woman from joining has been dismissed by a judge — despite allegations the student was a “sexual predator” who got physically aroused around them.

Since the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority bylaws do not define what a “woman” is, Wyoming US District Judge Alan Johnson ruled he could not proceed with the lawsuit and dismissed the matter on Friday, according to reports. “With its inquiry beginning and ending there, the court will not define a ‘woman’ today,” Johnson wrote.

Johnson ruled that a federal court could not interfere with the sorority chapter’s freedom of association by ruling against its vote to induct trans student Artemis Langford last year.

“The University of Wyoming chapter voted to admit — and, more broadly, a sorority of hundreds of thousands approved — Langford,” Johnson wrote in his ruling. 

“The delegate of a private, voluntary organization interpreted ‘woman,’ otherwise undefined in the nonprofit’s bylaws, expansively; this Judge may not invade Kappa Kappa Gamma’s freedom of expressive association and inject the circumscribed definition Plaintiffs urge.”

Rachel Berkness, Langford’s attorney, welcomed the court’s ruling.

“The allegations against Ms. Langford should never have made it into a legal filing,” Berkness said in an email to the Associated Press.

“They are nothing more than cruel rumors that mirror exactly the type of rumors used to vilify and dehumanize members of the LGBTQIA+ community for generations. And they are baseless,” Berkness said in an email.

The case at Wyoming’s only four-year public university garnered national attention as ongoing issues over the years involving transgender rights for students in schools and athletics have sparked major debate nationwide.

Six members of the university’s Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority filed the lawsuit in March against the national sorority organization, its national council president and Langford — who joined their chapter in September 2022.

The sorority members were seeking to have a judge void Langford’s Kappa Kappa Gamma membership and award unspecified damages.

Kari Kittrell Poole, the executive director of the sorority, told the Associated Press in May that the lawsuit “contains numerous false allegations” without specifying them.

She added that Kappa Kappa Gamma, which has over 250,000 members in 140 chapters across the United States and Canada, does not discriminate against gender identity.

The lawsuit alleged that members felt uneasy around Langford — identified under the male pseudonym Terry Smith in the suit — with one member allegedly witnessing Langford get physically aroused.

“Mr. Smith has, while watching members enter the sorority house, had an erection visible through his leggings,” the suit claimed. “Other times, he has had a pillow in his lap.” 

Berkness shared that claims about her client’s behavior and being labeled a “sexual predator” were nothing more than a “drunken rumor” following the suit’s dismissal.

The six sorority members told Megyn Kelly on her podcast in May that they “live in constant fear in our home” with Langford present and that the trans student would stare at women without talking for hours.

“It is seriously an only-female space. It is so different than living in the dorms, for instance, where men and women can commingle on the floors. That is not the case in a sorority house. We share just a couple of main bathrooms on the upstairs floor,” a member, not identified by name, told Kelly.

Cassie Craven, an attorney representing the sorority sisters, said her clients disagree with the ruling — and, more importantly, that the sorority chapter lacks a proper definition of who should be classified as a woman.

“Women have a biological reality that deserves to be protected and recognized, and we will continue to fight for that right just as women suffragists for decades have been told that their bodies, opinions, and safety doesn’t matter,” Craven wrote in an email to the outlet.

It’s unclear if Kappa Kappa Gamma plans on changing its bylaws to adequately define what a woman is for potential issues in the future.

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Production Designing HIGHSCHOOL, for the talented Clea Duvall, Laura Kittrell, and DP Carolina Costa, was a refreshing dive into nineties suburban malaise --- and Calgary playing ITSELF! The whole team had a blast reproducing gig posters, invading record stores, taking over Crescent Heights High (where Tegan & Sara went to school), and generally stewing in a grungy stoned teen haze of feelings. EXCLAIM! magazine called it “impeccably drab” --and that makes me very happy. Mission accomplished ;)  “It’s a heartfelt, eventually rather touching portrait of sisterhood – the actual and broader kinds – and of the power of friendship, the vexed business of negotiating the complexities of a queer adolescence, finding yourself, and the joys of uncovering a voice and a talent you can make your own.“ Lucy Manga, The Guardian. The show came in as Rolling Stone’s #7 on the Best TV Shows of 2022: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-lists/best-tv-shows-2022-barry-andor-the-bear-reservation-dogs-severance-1234640414/

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It's Nobody's Fault - Christine Kittrell (It's Nobody's Fault / I'm A Woman, 1962)

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Dr. Flemmie Kittrell (December 25, 1904 - October 3, 1980) to James and Alice Kittrell in Henderson, North Carolina. She attended Hampton Institution and received her BS in Home Economics. She graduated from Cornell University, earning her MS and Ph.D. in Nutrition with honors. She became the first African American woman to receive a doctorate in Nutrition.

While offered a teaching position at Bennett College, she accepted the offer after she completed her Ph.D. She began working at Hampton University as the dean of women and head of the home economics department. She was offered the head of home economics position at Howard University, where she spent the remainder of her career. She founded Howard University’s nursery school, and the research from this development led to her contribution to the creation of programs like Head Start.

Her focus shifted to an international level with a project sponsored by the US Department of State regarding research on nutrition in Liberia. She coined the term “hidden hunger” as a subcategory of malnutrition.

She received a Fulbright award to carry out nutritional research at Baroda University. She helped establish the university’s new department of home economics. She taught food and nutrition while facilitating exchange programs for Indian women to spend time studying in other countries. She engaged in research in Japan and Hawaii. She traveled to the Congo, where she created new departments in the young country’s new institutions of higher education that implemented a home economics curriculum.

She was named Hampton University’s outstanding alumna. She received the National Council of Negro Women’s Scroll of Honor and was given an achievement award from Cornell University. She received an honorary degree from UNC Greensboro. The American Home Economics Association created a scholarship in her honor.

She retired in 1972, she continued working and teaching as a Visiting Fellow for Cornell University and Senior Research Fellow for the Moton Center at Hampton. She was an active member of the American Association of University Women and the National Program Development Committee. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence