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Students to compete Nov 2 at School for the Blind's Cane Quest | Community

Thirty-eight contestants have registered to compete in the 10th annual Oklahoma Regional Cane Quest competition hosted by Oklahoma School for the Blind.

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Black Queer Sex Workers Need a Seat at the HIV Advocacy Table: A Conversation With JD Blackstone

Black Queer Sex Workers Need a Seat at the HIV Advocacy Table: A Conversation With JD Blackstone Courtesy of Justin Davis, also known as “JD Blackstone.” HIV advocacy work often strives to have a workforce that mirrors the communities disproportionately impacted by HIV. And while there exist genuine efforts to increase diversity in the field, oftentimes we also see and experience tokenism symbolic gestures to mirror diversity without genuine efforts to proportionately bring diverse voices to the decision-making table. Justin Davis an HIV advocate working in Atlanta who is also well-known in the Black queer community under his porn alias, JD Blackstone knows this form of tokenism all too well, having experienced firsthand how being a sex worker can create conflict while working as an HIV advocate. “It’s like I’m the trinity of what a HIV agency is looking for in a token,” said Davis. “I’m Black, a gay male, and I’m also a sex worker.”

School for the Blind students take part in crosswalk project

3 hrs ago Next time you are on Gibson Street, you’ll notice a new crosswalk connecting Oklahoma School for the Blind and Civitan Park. Students in Cheryl Daniels’ Service Learning class at Oklahoma School for the Blind repainted the crosswalk on May 13. With the help of Lacey Wallace and Jesse Garcia from Oklahoma State University Extension High Obesity Prevention (HOP) program and Doug Walton from the Muskogee County Health Department, students used yellow spray paint to make the railings leading to the crosswalk more visible and white paint and paint rollers to paint the crosswalk. The project came about through the Connect Muskogee transportation planning initiative. This area of Gibson Street was identified as being in need of traffic calming on the Connect Muskogee pinpoint map survey conducted from October 2020 to January 2021. Based on this feedback the HOP team conducted speed radar surveys at the site in March and found the average speed was 29 mph. The highest s