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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...

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...

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 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...

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 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...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

Ann Romney’s Gendered Martyrdom: “Women and Children First”?

Credit isn't all it's cracked up to be. I'm not talking about your credit score...

August 16, 2012

My mom is going back to school!

Some of you may remember this post, in which I described the frustration of discovering...

August 01, 2012

“I Don’t Hate Gay People, They Just Shouldn’t Get Married”: Chick-fil-A’s Supporters Need a Lesson on Structural Violence

Chick-fil-A sent ripples through my church in the early noughties; I still have no real...

July 2012

July 27, 2012

Doug Wilson Continues Attention-Seeking Rants Against Rachel Held Evans, Feminists

I blame Libby Anne for sharing this link and making me write despite my sore wrist!...

July 21, 2012

Misogynist Pastor Doug Wilson Continues Gaslighting His Critics

Gaslighting is a term derived from the 1944 film Gaslight. Here's an excerpt from the...

July 21, 2012

Gospel Coalition’s Jared C. Wilson issues an apology for Doug Wilson post; Rachel Held Evans accepts

Breaking: Whether or not the ripples of the Doug Wilson drama have truly subsided yet,...

July 20, 2012

Slacktivist: When a lack of anger reveals a lack of love

Fred Clark recently posted one of the most powerful endorsements of anger at injustice I...

July 19, 2012

Doug Wilson’s Daughters Defend Him by Attacking Rachel Held Evans

Them's Fightin' Words and Daddy Issues are the responses of Bekah and Rachel (Lizzie), daughters of Doug...

July 19, 2012

Doug Wilson on The Gospel Coalition: How Christian Patriarchy Turns Sex into Rape and Pregnancy into Slavery

Trigger warning for rape and sexual abuse. Jared Wilson unwittingly set off a flare in...

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