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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey

@lesapattersonk.bsky.social
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Freelance lobbyist, activist, & sub teacher. MSW, work in macro-social work, Old growth forests are my happy places. Love a good concert, book, movie & art piece. A survivor of child sexual abuse helping other survivors through advocacy & activism.

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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
What lovely words to describe the attributes of poetry. Just words...
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Love how you elevate recycled materials into such gorgeous garb!
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Let’s hear it for mammograms!!
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The shocking part is that he was actually convicted & facing jail time. Most CSA predators never see the courtroom or a jail cell.
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Spent Thursday raising awareness & working for bills that support survivors of child sexual abuse. Had to get our pic w/Kelce & Mahomes! Honored to catch the artist painting our new mural celebrating KS suffragists! #CSA #CSASurvivor
Three woman standing between cardboard cutouts of KC football players Travis Kelce & Patrick MahomesArtist, Phyllis Garibay-Coon painting a mural at the KS Statehouse depicting KS suffragists. Outside the Kansas statehouse
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Endurance. That’s amazing!
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Hope your day is filled with stories! It’s people like you who enrich our children’s lives by opening that wondrous world of books!
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
So good to have Sheriff Roberson in charge!
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Crockpot lasagna! Only takes about 4 hrs & is spectacular on a cold & icy winter’s night. All that warm, cheesy noodle goodness.
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
So glad you’re there to do this work. Thank you!
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
It’s Kansas Day & it’s been a tough week. Both warranted baking cookies- Sunflowers & Buffalo!
Dinner plate with two iced sunflower cookies. Icing bags, bowls of icing & a rack of un-iced cookies in the background.
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
It’s exhausting & unfair. I’m sick of how society is always so eager to protect & make excuses for our abusers while we seethe w/pain & anger. Good for you for taking care of yourself.
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
“NAMI Kansas volunteer Tara Gwynn said Kansas has an average of one mental health care provider for every 450 residents.”
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Unfortunately we had to cancel the press conference. But we met w/KS legislators to discuss our Survivors' Rights bill to give adult CSA survivors access to their DCF records & extend civil SOL to 55 yrs. Great day to spend breaking the silence of child sexual abuse & raising awareness! #CSA
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Proud to be speaking tomorrow! Come & hear about our new bill: The Survivors Rights Bill will allow survivors of substantiated child abuse access to their own DCF records as an adult & extend civil statute of limitations for Child Sexual Abuse from age 31 to 55. #CSA #CSASurvivorSky
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Lucky enough to spend the day at the KS Statehouse w/ these student nurses & lobby for 911 operators to have CPR training on American Heart Association Advocacy Day. Love introducing people to advocate in the KS Leguslature! Great working w/Brandi Fisher, Shannon Smith & Kari Ann Rinker!
6 people standing in front of a stone wall in the KS Statehouse.Kansas House floor with desks and people.
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Struggling to get into but "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle". Need to find an easy, fun book to balance the week out.
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Although, no judging the book by its cover. The House on Mango Street's cover both in English & Spanish are gorgeous. Got it reserved!
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Nice to have a sister in law that when you ask “Can you help recover a cushioned easy chair for my gnome?” & send her photo. She answers w/“Awwww! But yeah, not his vibes. What type of fabric are you using?” Then offers to figure it out & hand sews a new cover. Thanks, Catherine, Gnelson loves it!
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
THANK YOU!
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Join us 1:30 - 3pm this Sunday to learn how school vouches impact our students and communities. At Tomahawk Ridge Community Ctr, 119th & Lowell, OPKS. @leahfliter.bsky.social @joshcowenmsu.bsky.social @judith-deedy.bsky.social
Photos of Leah Fliter (KASB), Josh Cowan (Author, The Privateers) and Judith Deedy (Game On For KS Schools). Title of forum is "How Vouchers and "School Choice" Harm Students. QR code
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Stellar lineup!
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Very snowy weekend. KCI & highways closed. Been sleeting & snowing since Sat noon. Blizzard tonight. I’m lucky in a warm house w/a full pantry. With lots of time worrying about my son & his girlfriend who are waiting out the storm & will try to drive home tomorrow. #2024Bizzard
Snow covered front yard with trees.Snow covered front porch & flower pots
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I think about children who are being abused today & no one knows and other survivors who the abuse still lives on in our minds impacting us. You're right, it goes on everywhere. It's overwhelming to fight for justice & healing to so many. Thank you for your work.
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
The total lack of oversight for safety of children stood out to me. I wonder if there's data regarding children being abused while attending voucher schools? My work focuses on child sexual abuse. I know predators actively seek out situations that give them easy access to children. #KSLEG #CSA
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
The total lack of oversight for the safety of children in these schools stood out to me. Have you seen any data regarding children being abused while attending voucher schools? My work focuses on child sexual abuse. I know predators actively seek out situations that give them easy access to children
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
This another reason I love my hometown.
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Naturally.
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Thank you for your diligent coverage & professionalism. You and your paper provide much needed insight & information about our state & our world. Also, I just really appreciate how kind you have been to me & our child abuse advocacy group.
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
All that’s lacking is a pop tart.
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JPN @niland2024.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Children don’t make any decisions about how or where they grow up. So it’s up to us as adults to help them. Surely, we can help feed, protect & educate them.
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Let’s feed, educate & keep kids safe. It’s not a hard decision.
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
I’m sorry you had to grow up in those circumstances.Children don’t choose where they live, who their family is, how much $ they make, where they go to school, their home, or anything. So anyone who refuses free lunches & breakfasts to children is just mean & heartless. I have no patience for them.
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
We did have a problem when lunch accounts would run out of money & lunch staff would give them just a sandwich & milk. The community intervened & changed the policy.
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
I’m sorry you had to experience that. Fortunately, now lunch accounts are on the computer in our area. No one knows who’s getting free/reduced lunch except the cashier & the admin staff. It’s all done by names or student id cards.
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Nope. It deeply hurts the opposition’s feelings. I’m just enjoying Taylor’s repeated penalties to keep Mahomes safe.
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
It’s been like that forever - the damsel in distress & has gotten more & more violent. Horror & violence are a huge seller. Sick of it.
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
This why statute of limitation laws for rape & sexual assault need to extend for decades. Thankful for Fed SOL allowed for the home search. Also, this Dr. practiced in KS & CO too. Unfortunately more victims most likely exist. #SupportSurvivors
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The Lawrence Times @lawrencekstimes.com · 19/12/2024
Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel, co-director of the Chabad Center for Jewish Life, will light candles on a 9-foot-tall menorah at an annual Lawrence Hanukkah celebration. lawrenceks.news/404EvU9
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Menorah lighting ceremony and Hanukkah celebration coming up at Lawrence library
The Chabad Center for Jewish Life will light candles on a 9-foot-tall menorah at an annual Lawrence Hanukkah celebration.
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
It feels like another attempt to say “Well, that doesn’t happen with people like me. It happens with those people”.
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The power & magic of a good book.
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
“Students recognized that those insults were also intended for them,” Hickson said. “All of this has created a nationwide climate of fear.”
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Ok, so what song?
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Rest up! It’s going to be quite a year! Let me know how I can help! We’re all in this together.
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
💙Be Good. Be Nice. Work Hard. Be Humble.💙 Words we can all live by.
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Our hearts were filled with thoughts the Davidson family at the 1st Nolan Davidson Champions Run. Amazing to see so many people. Our running community is strong. we wish weren’t remembering Nolan but watching him run aside his friends & family. #NolanStrong #championsrunkc
Two men in running clothes holding up a 1 & 0 to show a 10 at the finish line of a 10K race.Two men in running clothes holding up a 1 & 0 to show a 10 at the finish line of a 10K race.5 people standing together ready for their race.
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
It’s a great idea. When depression hits hard, it takes time to dig yourself out of it. You should be able to put yourself on a list. But the opposition says it’s too risky to have a govt list. What?! More risky than suicidal ideation?
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Lesa Patterson-Kinsey @lesapattersonk.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Right?! As a CSA survivor, I always have to balance showing just enough emotion to have legislators see the impact of the abuse but not too much so they don’t write me off as just an angry woman or overly emotional. The double standard exhausts & infuriates me.
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