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July 2013

July 14, 2013
It's been several months since I posted anything, and some readers have asked me about...

April 2013

April 25, 2013
Trigger warning: I'm fighting back against a rape apologist's claim, and some of this material...
April 20, 2013
Sometimes, my mind goes through a litany of abuse that I can't stop. From my...
April 02, 2013
I want to recommend this recent post on A Sober Second Look: A Sober Second...
April 02, 2013
Occasionally, I get asked whether or not I ever actually left my old fundamentalist church....

February 2013

February 28, 2013
I have been teaching as part of my graduate school career for more than a...
February 08, 2013
I grew up on anti-feminist propaganda. I heard that they were ball-busting man-haters before I...
February 02, 2013
I've spent the past few years very plugged in to social justice media. When I...

January 2013

January 05, 2013
Trigger warning: The linked article contains a graphic description of gang rape. In fact, the...
January 04, 2013
*Trigger warning: Personal talk about fasting with a (mostly controlled) eating disorder to follow. Please...
January 03, 2013
2012-13 is the Winter of the Pants. Will you join the party? On December 16,...
January 02, 2013
I grew up wearing "holiness." I'll wait for a moment so you can finish making jokes....

December 2012

December 22, 2012
A moment of clarification: If you read my previous post and thought I was issuing...
December 20, 2012
Americans have come to expect certain conversations after public shooting incidents. It's a stain on...
December 18, 2012
Ever since I was a little girl, I've found engagement rings totally perplexing. The part...
December 16, 2012
A question occurred to me as I proofread my last post about how my father's...
December 14, 2012
This morning, a deranged attacker opened fire in a Connecticut school, killing tens of children...

November 2012

November 06, 2012
Growing up fundamentalist, I was reminded on a near monthly basis that I shouldn't be...

October 2012

October 27, 2012
"You'll save him. You always do," says Amelia Pond to the Doctor. "Not always," he...
October 24, 2012
The following is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. Read the previous...
October 22, 2012
I've been asked to consider this topic again, as Meghan has decided to make it...
October 22, 2012
The Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project has (finally) returned! Last time, we met Calulu, Jenn, Meggie, Parker,...
October 20, 2012
This just in from the Department of Bizarre Feats of Religious Jackassery: Tim Tebow Trademarks...
October 20, 2012
In the attempt to track down sales figures for the evangelical Christian marriage book market,...
October 18, 2012
"Is your husband home?" I wasn't prepared to answer that question. If my neighbors' wide,...
October 17, 2012
In evangelical Christian culture, marriage is a commodity. Marriage books are sold like gardening manuals...
October 16, 2012
Justin Lee, executive director of the Gay Christian Network, has just written an excellent post...
October 15, 2012
What do John Howard Griffin, Barbara Ehrenreich, Timothy Kurek and Rachel Held Evans have in...

September 2012

September 23, 2012
I have been asked to write a response to S.E. Smith at Tiger Beatdown after...
September 20, 2012
Ever since Todd Akin's remarks about women's bodies' magical powers to repel the sperm of...
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