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January 2018

January 08, 2018
Why am I the only woman in the room? Because a male friend of mine...
January 06, 2018
You have the power to affirm and amplify the value of a woman’s voice or...
January 05, 2018
This is not, unfortunately, the first time I have witnessed the claim that Moore’s misconduct...
January 03, 2018
until women are the ones leading the conversation about sex, gender, and equality in the...

December 2017

December 28, 2017
(PSA: trigger warning for language about rape, violence). The summer I was finishing my M.A....
December 20, 2017
here was God, Creator of the Universe, playing with a kraken like a puppy
December 04, 2017
Maybe when I turned away from the dreary end-times prophecies it wasn’t because I rejected...

November 2017

November 12, 2017
  You're a young woman emerging from far-right religious circles, where modesty is a cult...
November 05, 2017
"... I assure you of my spiritual closeness and my sharing in your concern for...

October 2017

October 25, 2017
As more reports emerge about the scope of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, and the scale...
October 16, 2017
Victims need allies in spaces of power
October 11, 2017
"I did it, you can too," is never a viable response to someone who is...
October 04, 2017
what these men and their supporters represent was never truly pro-life at all
October 03, 2017
We need to have humane laws such as this in place

September 2017

September 16, 2017
I believe literature is by its very nature interdisciplinary, and creates a space in which...
September 08, 2017
The degeneration into evil happens for the most trivial reasons, in a bourgeois middle-class manner,...

August 2017

August 29, 2017
In recent weeks, I have observed an alarming uptick in tolerance for racism among Catholic...
August 15, 2017
How many pleasant, decent, respectable Republicans are framing this as a conflict between two political...
August 15, 2017
I encourage you to stand in solidarity with them, with us, with the entire body...

July 2017

July 21, 2017
The radical idea that women are people too still hasn’t entirely caught on.
July 20, 2017
Admitting that I am a fan of the hugest TV hit series of the moment...
July 06, 2017
I had tried to make them overtly religious, failing to recognize that every one of...

June 2017

June 20, 2017
The real heart of the problem with this anti-woman approach is not just tacky style,...
June 15, 2017
Is there a cultural trend that promotes violence for some people? Is there a cultural...
June 11, 2017
With Wonder Woman as the hot film of the moment, it’s inevitable that we should...
June 05, 2017
The breast is not reducible to a sexual object. It has a function in the...
June 01, 2017
Why can we not see how our sinfulness mars the very soil on which we...

May 2017

May 31, 2017
I thought her display disturbing, and her apology insincere.
May 29, 2017
But there are some things no power, state or federal, has a right to decree.
May 26, 2017
Bottom line: there is no excuse for Christians to fail to be merciful toward sexual...
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