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Katelyn Dykstra Dr. Katelyn Dykstra is a Sessional Instructor at the University of Manitoba, Canada. Katelyn recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship that explores critical community literacies in a queer context. In this work, she explores the way that queer people learn to tell their stories to service providers and other people in their circle of care. This project draws on her doctoral thesis, which focused on intersex representation, including a chapter on intersex life-writing. She is also collaborating on a research project with queer and trans youth in rural spaces. She has publ...

Your Sex Life and Healthy Sexual Activity Remain Critically Important Leisure Sciences, found that nearly half of online survey participants reported a decline in how much sex they were having compared with their prepandemic sex lives. Not only is sex a great workout, safe and consensual sex can help us feel relaxed, ease anxiety and tension in the body, act as a natural sleep aid, and cause the brain to release hormones, including endorphins (the body’s natural uppers) and oxytocin (the so-called love hormone), says Shannon Chavez, PsyD, a sex therapist based in Beverly Hills, California....

Ada S. Mckinley *(Chicago, Ill.) Newly released scholarly research about Chicago social reformer Ada S. McKinley indicates her contributions to Chicago and to the field of human services have been ignored and marginalized due to her race. The report has spurred the 102-year old nonprofit she founded to call for the rewriting of history books to inform the public of one of the nation’s most profoundly successful, yet unheralded human services pioneers. As we celebrate Black History Month, Ada S. McKinley Community Services CEO Jamal Malone says now is the time for historians, government lead...

Ada S. McKinley is way overdue for some appreciation, according to researchers who delved into her history as an early 20th century social reformer Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune © Moffett Studio/Chicago Tribune/TNS Ada S. McKinley, head of the South Side Settlement House, on Jan. 30, 1938. The name Ada S. McKinley graces 70 sites across Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana under the banner of Ada S. McKinley Community Services Inc. According to CEO Jamal Malone, the agency serves more than 7,000 people annually within the arenas of child development, employment and mental heal...

Two professors and Ada S. McKinley Community Services Inc.'s CEO want recognition for the Black social activist who aided poor South Side residents.