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Blogging update
It's been several months since I posted anything, and some readers have asked me about...
April 2013
April 25, 2013
The Fistfight Fallacy: rape culture’s ahistorical premise
Trigger warning: I'm fighting back against a rape apologist's claim, and some of this material...
April 20, 2013
Sexism, Judgment Day and Forgetting as a Survival Skill
Sometimes, my mind goes through a litany of abuse that I can't stop. From my...
April 02, 2013
A Sober Second Look writes about Islamophobia
I want to recommend this recent post on A Sober Second Look: A Sober Second...
April 02, 2013
Daughter of the Patriarchy, epilogue: What does leaving fundamentalism look like?
Occasionally, I get asked whether or not I ever actually left my old fundamentalist church....
February 2013
February 28, 2013
Activism fatigue and the work of changing minds
I have been teaching as part of my graduate school career for more than a...
February 08, 2013
What my feminism is, and why I’m not okay with “mansplaining”
I grew up on anti-feminist propaganda. I heard that they were ball-busting man-haters before I...
February 02, 2013
We are not the enemies of our best selves
I've spent the past few years very plugged in to social justice media. When I...
January 2013
January 05, 2013
Prospect.org: Purity Culture is Rape Culture
Trigger warning: The linked article contains a graphic description of gang rape. In fact, the...
January 04, 2013
Secular fasting: finding spirituality in the process, not the goal
*Trigger warning: Personal talk about fasting with a (mostly controlled) eating disorder to follow. Please...
January 03, 2013
Are you part of the pants, pants revolution?
2012-13 is the Winter of the Pants. Will you join the party? On December 16,...
January 02, 2013
We thought modesty made us timeless
I grew up wearing "holiness." I'll wait for a moment so you can finish making jokes....
December 2012
December 22, 2012
Christianity and Christian Patriarchy are not the same thing.
A moment of clarification: If you read my previous post and thought I was issuing...
December 20, 2012
You can’t stop the reign of guns and patriarchy without talking about religion
Americans have come to expect certain conversations after public shooting incidents. It's a stain on...
December 18, 2012
Adventures in Egalitarian Marriage: On the Rocks, Please
Ever since I was a little girl, I've found engagement rings totally perplexing. The part...
December 16, 2012
Guns an equalizer?
A question occurred to me as I proofread my last post about how my father's...
December 14, 2012
Columbine, martyrs, and growing up NRA at the end of the world
This morning, a deranged attacker opened fire in a Connecticut school, killing tens of children...
November 2012
November 06, 2012
I Voted! (Suck it, Mr. Branham.)
Growing up fundamentalist, I was reminded on a near monthly basis that I shouldn't be...
October 2012
October 27, 2012
What’s the point of you? The absurdity of defining people by their reproductive organs.
"You'll save him. You always do," says Amelia Pond to the Doctor. "Not always," he...
October 24, 2012
Sexuality Project: Sex Education and the Body, Q. 2
The following is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. Read the previous...
October 22, 2012
Further thoughts on disability and abortion, by request
I've been asked to consider this topic again, as Meghan has decided to make it...
October 22, 2012
The Sexuality Project Returns! Part One: Sex Education and the Body
The Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project has (finally) returned! Last time, we met Calulu, Jenn, Meggie, Parker,...
October 20, 2012
Don’t Worry, Tim Tebow Just Wants to Control You
This just in from the Department of Bizarre Feats of Religious Jackassery: Tim Tebow Trademarks...
October 20, 2012
Jeremy Lott, Rachel Held Evans, and Taboos in the Evangelical Christian Culture Industry
In the attempt to track down sales figures for the evangelical Christian marriage book market,...
October 18, 2012
Adventures in Egalitarian Marriage, Part One: Mrs. Who?
"Is your husband home?" I wasn't prepared to answer that question. If my neighbors' wide,...
October 17, 2012
Evangelical Christian Marriage: Hawking the Product
In evangelical Christian culture, marriage is a commodity. Marriage books are sold like gardening manuals...
October 16, 2012
Love is what “we” do; sex is what “they” do
Justin Lee, executive director of the Gay Christian Network, has just written an excellent post...
October 15, 2012
Checking Out of Privilege: Timothy Kurek’s “The Cross in the Closet” and What it Means to Change Your Identity
What do John Howard Griffin, Barbara Ehrenreich, Timothy Kurek and Rachel Held Evans have in...
September 2012
September 23, 2012
Disability and Abortion, Part Two: Individual moral choices are not categorical imperatives
I have been asked to write a response to S.E. Smith at Tiger Beatdown after...
September 20, 2012
Can you TELL? or, Lies I Believed About Women’s Reproduction
Ever since Todd Akin's remarks about women's bodies' magical powers to repel the sperm of...
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