In 1997, three of my classmates were shot and killed in the lobby of my high school.

20 years later, and 30 miles away, my community is again mourning the deaths of two 15-year-old high school students shot in the lobby of Marshall County High School.

We're thinking about activism to prevent more of these tragedies and talking about activism through protests with Dr. Dana Fisher.

This is Sarah from the left.

And Beth from the right.

You're listening to Pants and Qualities.

No shouting, no insults, no hate marks.

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Welcome to another episode of Pants and Qualities.

We are going to have a special bonus episode for the state of the unions available to our patrons.

If you are interested in supporting Pants and Qualities and gaining access to our of the minute thoughts live video feed of the state of the union, just head on over to patreon.com-ports-pantsuit-politics.

Also today, a friend of the pod, Tish Oxen Rider, is premiering women's work.

And I, and the premiere episode, and it was such a fantastic conversation with Tish.

We had such fun.

I sort of talked my way into expressing some things and expressed before.

It was like a really good therapy session.

So go head over to women's work and check that out.

And then we have some really sad news in my community that we're going to talk about in the show.

And then after the mid-raw we will be sharing our talk with Dr. Dana Fisher about her really interesting research into the protest movement.

As everyone is now aware, Marshall County, Kentucky, which is very close to where Sarah lives and close to where I grew up as well, had a shooting in its high school to 15 year old students were killed.

A number of people were injured. The courier journal, which is a newspaper out of Louisville, Kentucky, has an excruciatingly detailed account of students reacting to hearing the shots.

And I think it's the kind of thing that's an important read.

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