Katherine Speller (or Katie) is the News Editor for Her Campus. She first fell in love with journalism while attending SUNY New Paltz ('14). Since then, she has worked on the staffs at MTV News and Bustle writing about politics, intersectional social issues and more before serving as staff researcher at Lady Parts Justice League. Her work has been published in Women's Health, the Daily Dot, Public Radio International (PRI) and WNYC and she's a regular panelist on the "We're All Gonna Die" politics podcast.
Katherine is a Libra with a Taurus moon and a Scorpio ascendant, which either means nothing or everything. She loves strong diner coffee, reading tarot for strangers at the bar and watching the same three horror movie documentaries. She lives in the Hudson Valley with too many animals.
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Because we really couldn't help ourselves, we reached out to a few women who have dealt with ingrowns over the years for their tips, tricks and stories. (Think of it as us inviting you into a personal, weird bodies group chat.)
"He told his friends that my vag was super hairy, and then they made a freestyle rap about it which the friend performed in front of me."
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Baby's. First. Snow.
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We know y’all are going to be stress-y, depress-y and glued to your twitter feeds anyway (because of who you are as people) — so why not do it with us?
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'Again, civil society is trying to work. It's messy, it's ugly, but it's trying to work. Let's give it a chance'
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'Don’t shame people, mind your damn business and don’t touch them unless they say you can.'
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'...You not only have to vote, you gotta drag your friends out. And your uncles and your aunts,' Sanders said.
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Sen. Sanders touched on how much debt young people were saddled with at the New York Times Get With The Times event and we had to know more.
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Think of it as your 2018 midterm election to-do list.
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'I am here today not because I want to be. I am terrified,' Dr. Blasey Ford said.
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You're welcome, astrocreeps.
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Rants about self-care are kinda our thing.
'It affects my mental health...I'm anxious, worried and stressed because none of us did anything wrong to feel those emotions constantly.'
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Reporters inside the building tweeted about the active shooter situation as it happened.
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There's some nuance — but obvs Scorpios can get it.
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Like straight-up: No, it’s not attainable to mere mortals with student loans and credit card debt. And I’m pretty thrilled that no one is pretending it is.
CNN confirmed Bourdain's death Friday morning.
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I am nothing but sorry when I imagine the world these kids (and all the other kids affected by gun violence each day) are about to wake up to.
Repro rights activists are obviously concerned.
