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April 2013

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...

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 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 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...

October 2012

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 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 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...

August 2012

August 22, 2012

On Identity and Political Christianity

When I was growing up, I believed our church to be mostly apolitical. This was...

August 21, 2012

Settling in and Getting Organized: check out my (restored) blogroll!

You may have noticed that the menu section now includes a link to my blogroll....

August 17, 2012

Electrick Children (July 2012): A New Indie Drama about a Girl’s Journey out of Fundamentalist Mormonism

Following up Paradise Recovered as the second recent cinematic portrayal of a fundamentalist girl's journey...

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