About

“I Can’t Believe We Still Have to Protest this Shit” is the blog of Trish Kahle, an activist and writer currently located in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Trish works for Political Prisoners in North America on the cases of Mondo we Langa and Ed Poindexter–the Omaha Two.  (Learn more at http://omahatwo.wordpress.com)

In addition, Trish is a member of the International Socialist Organization, Students for Justice in Palestine, Triad BDS.  She is a member of the SlutWalk Greensboro organizing committee and Artists for Wisconsin Workers.  She organizes with Occupy Greensboro, participating most heavily in the Civil Liberties and Occupy Playwriting working groups.  She is a member of the Occupy Greensboro Radical Historians and Occupy Writers.

In addition, she works with groups and individuals dedicated to activism through art, including Authoring Action and Hidden Voices.  Her fiction and poetry have appeared in publications such as the Rio Grande Review, Ember, and Barbaric Yawp.  Her artwork and photography have appeared in shows in Connecticut, Virginia, and North Carolina.  She is working on her first novel and writes and performs sketch comedy.

Trish regularly gives presentations on varied topics, including women’s rights, imperialism, Palestine solidarty, Islamophobia and the role of art in activism.  She spoke on the 2010 Salem College Black History Month Panel, “How Do We Create Change?” and the 2010 Women’s Day Panel, “What Would Women’s Equality Look Like?”

She graduated from Salem College in 2010 with a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing and is currently completing research in race, labor, and legal history.