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August 2018

August 15, 2018

Sorry to Bother You: The (Human) Body as Technology

This review contains major spoilers for Boots Riley’s 2018 film Sorry to Bother You. It’s...

June 2017

June 15, 2017

Confederate Symbols and the Black Flag of ISIS: Two Sides of the Same Coin

A terrorist symbol looms over my hometown. It stands for an intolerant, un-American ideology, one...

April 2017

April 02, 2017

The Anti-Trump General Conference

Like many Mormons around the world, I’ve spent this weekend watching the Church’s General Conference,...

November 2016

November 12, 2016

The Trump Supporter Next Door

If you've been following the Peculiar People column over the past few months, you've probably...

June 2016

June 17, 2016

Stop Praying for us, and Acknowledge That You Helped Create Omar Mateen

Let me give you a run down: 2015 was the deadliest year on record for...

March 2016

March 28, 2016

Where Is Mormonism On Civil Rights?

This week I went to an anti-racism rally here in Lexington, Virginia in response to...

January 2016

January 18, 2016

The Courage and Light of Martin Luther King, Jr.

In a meeting of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference for the 1963 civil rights protests in Alabama...

October 2015

October 20, 2015

Mitt Romney Still Doesn’t Want to Talk About Race in the Mormon Church

So the guy who was in charge of getting Barack Obama elected both times, David Axelrod,...

October 06, 2015

Souls, not Skin: Why I stand with the 3 new Apostles

Yes, I admit the natural woman in me was somewhat dismayed that the 'white American...

September 2015

September 18, 2015

Ahmed Mohamed, and The Need For A New Narrative

Ahmed Mohamed, a high school student in Irving, Texas, had a rude awakening this...

September 01, 2015

James Bond becoming more interesting and relevant isn’t a bad thing

Idris Elba basically oozes everything one associates with James Bond. Pretty much everyone recognizes...

July 2015

July 08, 2015

The Risks and Revelations of Protest and Lament

On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass gave voice to the unspeakable injustice of American slavery...

January 2015

January 19, 2015

Review: “Selma”

Selma deserves a Best Picture win, because even with all of its imperfections, it is...

August 2013

August 28, 2013

A Plea for Identity on the Internet

I recently watched a preview for The Fifth Estate, the new film about WikiLeaks co-founder...

August 12, 2013

LL Cool J, Accidental Mormon?

Last week, I logged onto facebook to see my newsfeed crowded with excited links from...

June 2013

June 12, 2013

Review: Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter: a novel.

Partway through Cloudsplitter, Russell Banks's ambitious fictional account of John Brown's adult life, our narrator,...

April 2013

April 24, 2013

“Matt and Me (But Mostly Me)”*: A Conversation about _The Book of Mormon_ on Broadway

The Book of Mormon, the musical comedy co-written by South Park creators Trey Parker and...

August 2012

August 20, 2012

What Does It Mean to Be ‘Friend’

Yesterday morning, readers of the New York Times opened their Sunday papers to find John...