Author: Katrina Ray-Saulis
Katrina Ray-Saulis is a Maine writer and avid knitter. She has a BFA in Creative Writing from the New Hampshire Institute of Art. She and her wife live in a 200-year old house that was once owned by the local undertaker.
As a community college graduate and an instructor at Central Maine Community College, I find the Biden administration’s focus on community colleges especially encouraging. Investing in our students is always a good idea — but it’s also essential that we build on that financial support by investing in our educators. On April 5, First Lady…
In Florida this past week, the medical board voted to detransition trans teens and ban gender-affirming care for minors. At the same time, Gov. Henry McMaster of South Carolina said he supports a state-wide ban on gay marriage, claiming “marriage is between one man and one woman.” And Tennessee Sen.r Marsha Blackburn joined a rash…
Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm said, “if they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring in a folding chair.” I first heard this quote many years ago and have often thought of it when faced with a closed door or a glass ceiling. I have worked very hard during my adult life to find a…
The first protest I ever attended was during the 2005 Maine Won’t Discriminate campaign. I was 21 years old and painfully aware that in the State of Maine I could be legally fired for being a homosexual. I still have the green Maine Won’t Discriminate button that I wore throughout that entire election season and,…
As I write this the second day of the January 6th investigation committee hearing is coming to a close, the end of Roe v. Wade looms, and tomorrow former Governor Paul LePage will officially become the Republican candidate for the 2022 gubernatorial election. With all that in mind, it is increasingly apparent to me that…
Lately, it hasn’t taken me more than a few minutes of scrolling social media to start feeling that heavy, hopeless feeling. In just one month we’ve faced the leaked Supreme Court draft revealing that we’ll likely be losing Roe v. Wade, a racist shooting in Buffalo, NY, that took the lives of ten Black people,…
Rachel King, a community college advisor from Boothbay, woke up Thursday Morning to an upsetting email from MaineHealth. The email, which went out to previous Maine Medical patients who have Anthem insurance, read: “I’m writing to let you know that MaineHealth has made the difficult decision to serve notice to the health insurer Anthem that,…
I will always remember the day that I attended Walmart’s anti-union training. I was a young department manager in the mid-aughts. Like my coworkers, I arrived for work every morning in my blue vest, my corporate-approved cargo pants, and my nametag. Store meetings were always held in the employee break room, a stark white room…
Over the last month or so I feel like the pandemic has been more real for me than it was all of last year, and yet everyone else seems to be over it. When I’m out in public I’m seeing fewer and fewer masks, and I’m hearing people refer to “during the pandemic” as though…
On May 20, the employees of the Bull Moose store in Salem, New Hampshire, received the following voicemail: “I’m just calling to let you know that the location has been closed until further notice. I just wanted to alert anybody who was scheduled for tomorrow morning. You are all set on not coming in tomorrow.”…