writer journalist etc.
I’ve started blogging on the food industry for BNET. I’ve been doing it for about a month now, and I’m having a lot of fun with it. Some of my recent posts:
Groups Clash Over Organic Standards for Fish, Milk
More Eating In Means Higher Sales for Heinz, Smucker’s and Campbell Soup
Financial dilemma: For many Muslims, conventional loans can be a sin
By Katherine Glover
Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008
MinnPost.com
Seven years ago, staff at the Neighborhood Development Center made a realization. Plenty of Somalis and other Muslim immigrants had attended the St. Paul-based center’s trainings for small-business entrepreneurs — but in more than a decade, not one Muslim had ever taken advantage of the center’s small-business loans.
The reason? Islam forbids “reba,” or usury. To some, the term refers merely to excessive interest, but to others, it includes the payment of any kind of interest — making conventional bank loans a sin for them.
Trans (I) Am
Chrissy Nakonsky looks to become the first transgender Republican state legislator from Brainerd (or anywhere)
By Katherine Glover
Minnesota Law & Politics
August/September 2008
A sidebar to “Not the Man She Married.”
scanned article as PDF (scroll down to page 2)
Not the Man I Married
by Katherine Glover
Minnesota Law & Politics
August/September 2008
When a transsexual marries a member of his or her new gender before having reassignment surgery, is there any reason the union shouldn’t be considered legal?
“Generally speaking, the validity of a marriage is measured at the time that the marriage is contracted,” says Phil Duran, a staff attorney with GLBT rights group OutFront Minnesota. “So if at the time of the marriage one person was legally male and one person was legally female, then short of an annulment, the only way you can terminate that is through death or divorce.”
Which adds an extra twist to the legal issues around same-sex marriage.
“If we were ever to get a divorce,” April says, “I could go to Texas and marry another woman, or I could stay here and marry a man.”
Cookin’ With Sun
Sierra Magazine
November/December 2008
Mike and Martha Port sell solar cookers to outdoor enthusiasts in the United States–and use the profits to subsidize sales of the ovens in developing countries.
Also check out the online-only audio interview with Solar Oven Society volunteer and recipe-maker Bill Potts.
Blind activists protest depiction in new film ‘Blindness’
by Katherine Glover
MinnPost
“This is the kind of movie that’s going to make my life harder,” says Jennifer Dunnam, president of the National Federation of the Blind of Minnesota. “The people in this movie just seem to lose all capacity for creativity and for taking care of themselves, and it’s a problem when real people already think that about blind people.”
Transgender Rights Meeting: Mara Kiesling Mixes Humor with Savvy Insight
by Katherine Glover
Lavender Magazine
April 11, 2008
At a town hall meeting on transgender rights, the executive director of the Washington D.C.-based National Center for Transgender Equality talks about the battle for a trans-inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act.
If you click on “other works,” instead of an “under construction” message, you will now see links to my short stories, performance pieces and other creative works.
Highlights include my 2001 prize-winning short story “The Diary Thief,” audio recordings of my performances, and of course, Pony Wars.
I also added a paypal link, in case anyone wants to give me money to support my less well-paying endeavors.
Once again a story of mine is on Minnesota Public Radio’s In the Loop.
I performed at Saturday’s story slam, recorded at the Minnesota State Fair. The theme was “Taking Sides” and the episode is available for download at In the Loop’s website.
My story deals with a day that politics sneakily invaded the level two ESL class I was teaching… I’ll post an mp3 and transcript of my piece later, but for now, check out the entire show, which includes many other fabulous performers as well. Look for the episode called “Taking Sides.”
The Minnesota Fringe Festival is over and I’m in San Francisco getting ready to do it all over again, West Coast style.
As I mentioned earlier, I was originally near the end of the waitlist for Minnesota Fringe, but I got a slot literally a week before the festival opened because another company had to drop out.
It was a crazy week of constant writing and rehearsing, little sleep, and slightly excessive amounts of both coffee and alcohol (followed of course by the Fringe itself, which was the same only with a less writing and more alcohol).
I averaged a little under 30 people at each performance, and the response was incredibly positive.
All in all, I’d say No Stranger Than Home had a successful run in Minnesota - especially since I had so little time for publicity. Though let’s see if we can’t bring out bigger crowds for San Francisco…