Abigail Ruhman

Debi Hake is a licensed professional counselor with the Marriage and Family Counseling Center, and one of our specialty areas is spiritual abuse and religious trauma.She spoke about how religious trauma can make navigating substance use disorder recovery spaces difficult.

Dungeons & Dragons, and other tabletop role-playing games, first became popular in the 1980s, but they are getting a lot of new interest due to shows like Stranger Things and other pop culture trends. However, turning that interest into actual play, and finding a space or community to explore those interests can be difficult.For the Columbia community, there’s a new group trying to make it easier to find that community. Detect Nerd is an organization working to make nerd culture more accessible.

The Burney Sisters stopped by KBIA's Studio B to talk with host Connor McGovern about growing up with music, and how the sisters collaborate on songwriting and creating across multiple genres.

Dr. Darrel Ray is the founder of Recovering from Religion, a non-profit working with people experiencing religious trauma, and the Secular Therapy Project, which helps clients find therapists offering secular, science-based therapy.He spoke about how traumatic religious experiences can impact the limbic system, which is involved in behavioral and emotional responses like the “fight or flight” response, and about the importance of recognizing its possible impact on the brain.

The American Psychological Association recently found that 72% of the LGBTQIA+ community reported feeling like their rights were under attack. Between violence and legislation, spaces free from homophobia and transphobia are becoming harder to find despite still being vital to the community.In mid-Missouri, there’s a lifestyle production company – Nclusion Plus – working to create space for the queer community to “feel at home.”

Andrew and Kristen Camp of The January Lanterns sat down with Connor McGovern to chat about all things on their latest album “For the Kids, When They’re Older,” released last January. With keen intention behind their lyrics and a deep rooted love for music and each other, The January Lanterns brought a gentle stillness to KBIA’s Studio B Sessions.

D. Ojeda is a Senior National Organizer for the National Center for Transgender Equality.They spoke about the close relationship that gender-affirming care and abortion have within the healthcare industry, and they explained how anti-transgender and anti-abortion rights legislation leave everyone, but especially transgender people – vulnerable within healthcare.

In June, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and nearly immediately, Missouri followed suit – outlawed abortion in all cases except when a “woman” is experiencing a “medical emergency.”From the wording of legislation to the conversation about who is impacted, abortion access is generally viewed as a women’s rights issue. However, cisgender women aren’t the only stakeholders when it comes to how abortion connects to healthcare and bodily autonomy.

Shira Berkowitz is the Senior Director of Public Policy and Advocacy at PROMO. They spoke about the importance of being inclusive when talking about the impacts of Roe V. Wade being overturned, as well as about the ways that this decision would impact already vulnerable populations – like trans and nonbinary Missourians.Just as a note - this conversation took place after the Dobbs draft decision was leaked, but before the official ruling in June.

Quinn Calvert is a Missouri resident who – in the past – had to travel from Columbia to St. Louis to get an abortion.They spoke about the ways that lack of access influenced their choices leading up to that abortion, and about the concerns they have if the procedure becomes even more inaccessible.As a note, this conversation took place after the Dobbs draft decision was leaked. But before the official ruling overturned Roe vs. Wade on Friday, June 24.