Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend. A podcast for long to some spesities everywhere.

I'm Anne Friedman. And I'm Amina Tussau. Every other week we'll be bringing you a special phone

friend episode between either Amina or me and one of our rad pals. Who are you talking to this weekend?

I talk to friend of the podcast Katie Blair who is a pal of mine. Oh my god. I know. Who is a force of

nature who is a mortal woman, but like manages to be so much more. She is a lifelong grassroots

activist. She has a master's public health. She's worked in reproductive health and politics,

but also for the ACLU and has done a ton of democratic political organizing almost exclusively

in the Midwest. She's based in Indiana right now. So I cannot wait for you to hear our conversation

about her doing what she does in the place where she does it. I imagine Katie talking to

wearing like some sort of animal print caftan and drinking a wine spritzer. Oh my god. Completely.

Before we even got on the phone together, she sent me a link just to set like my mental image

of all of the leggings that she'd ordered to wear to the DNC because she's a delegate.

Of course. Yeah. They were basically like several varieties of all over Hillary print leggings.

I miss the mixes so happy I can't wait to hear it.

Katie, thank you for being on the podcast. Thank you so much for having me. It's great to get to talk.

Oh, okay. So for people who have not been privileged to be one of your besties for more than a decade,

which is the case for us. It's very exciting. Maybe you can talk a little bit about your career and

what you do, like not only for a living, but like because you are a passionate, important,

wonderful woman. Thank you. Yes. So how I met you was through activism at the University of Missouri.

I was just thinking about this today actually. So I worked at the MU Women Center and I did that

all through college. So that's kind of how I got my start into feminism. And yeah, Emma and

Friedman, did you remember we started a girl gang called the CUNS? I honestly do not remember that,

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