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April 2013
April 02, 2013
Daughter of the Patriarchy, epilogue: What does leaving fundamentalism look like?
Occasionally, I get asked whether or not I ever actually left my old fundamentalist church....
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 15, 2012
What do John Howard Griffin, Barbara Ehrenreich, Timothy Kurek and Rachel Held Evans have in...
July 2012
July 23, 2012
Sexuality Project: Life Outside the Bubble, Q. 5
This concludes the answers of first group of participants in the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project....
July 22, 2012
Sexuality Project: Life Outside the Bubble, Q. 4
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
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
Sexuality Project: Life Outside the Bubble, Q. 3
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
July 18, 2012
Daughter of the Patriarchy: Ripping the Moorings, Part One
My family's most diligent deceit never worked on me. My father told me not to...
July 18, 2012
Sexuality Project: Life Outside the Bubble, Q. 2
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
July 16, 2012
Sexuality Project: Life Outside the Bubble, Q. 1
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
July 15, 2012
Sexuality Project: Questioning, Qs. 4 and 5
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
July 14, 2012
Sexuality Project: Questioning, Q. 3
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
July 13, 2012
Sexuality Project: Questioning, Q. 2
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
July 11, 2012
Sexuality Project: Questioning, Q. 1
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
July 09, 2012
Sexuality Project: Romantic Relationships, Q. 5
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
July 08, 2012
Sexuality Project: Romantic Relationships, Q. 3
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
July 06, 2012
Sexuality Project: Romantic Relationships, Q. 2
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
July 05, 2012
Sexuality Project: Romantic Relationships, Q. 1
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
July 03, 2012
Sexuality Project: Peer Group, Q. 4
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
July 02, 2012
Sexuality Project: Peer Group, Q. 3
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
July 01, 2012
Sexuality Project: Peer Group, Q. 2
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
June 2012
June 30, 2012
Sexuality Project: Peer Group, Q. 1
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
June 29, 2012
Sexuality Project: Sex Education and the Body, Q. 7
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
June 28, 2012
Sexuality Project: Sex Education and the Body, Q. 6
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
June 28, 2012
Survival Songs: Kelly Clarkson, Breakaway
This is part of a series of songs with excerpts of lyrics I’ve found relevant to leaving...
June 27, 2012
Sexuality Project: Sex Education and the Body, Qs. 3, 4 and 5
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
June 27, 2012
Libby Anne reviews Brave, and comes to different conclusions
Libby Anne at Love, Joy, Feminism reviewed Pixar's Brave right after I did. Apparently, we saw...
June 26, 2012
Sexuality Project: Sex Education and the Body, Q. 2
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
June 26, 2012
Sexuality Project: Sex Education and the Body, Q. 1
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
June 24, 2012
Survival Songs: Duran Duran, Ordinary World
This is part of a series of songs with excerpts of lyrics I've found relevant...
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