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June 2012

June 23, 2012

Review: Pixar’s Brave is Braver Than it Looks

Pixar's Brave is every fairy tale and none of them. It's every trope and none of them....

June 19, 2012

Azizatu Nafsiha: Suffering Doesn’t Make You Special, It Just Makes You Miserable

Saliha has written another great post that resonates with me as a former Christian fundamentalist....

June 18, 2012

“Hate the Sin, Love the Sinner” – a Christian Myth in Perspective

I recently wrote my Christian Fundamentalist Homophobia series to point out how I and other...

June 18, 2012

Sexuality and Spanking in Religious Fundamentalism: Two Projects to Join!

Sarah at Who I Am Without You is starting a project on the harmful effects...

June 17, 2012

Survival Songs: Of Verona, The Enemy

The following song was an incredible help to me during the worst of my conflict...

June 15, 2012

Survival Songs: Mandi Perkins, Who I Am

Note: This is part of an ongoing series on songs that helped me break away...

June 14, 2012

Christian Fundamentalist Homophobia, Part Three: Finding Unconditional Love Outside the Church

Trigger warning: The following post contains frank descriptions of the hate speech against LGBTQ people...

June 11, 2012

Survival Songs: U2, Walk On

When I got to college, the very first "worldly music" album I purchased was U2, All...

June 09, 2012

Christian Patriarchy and Complementarianism: “Separate But Equal” Puts on Lipstick

Complementarianism is a lie. Yeah. It's fake. It doesn't exist. What does exist is patriarchy in...

June 07, 2012

New Spiritual Abuse Survivor Network at No Longer Quivering

Over the past year, survivors of spiritual abuse have been slowly connecting with one another,...

June 06, 2012

Christian Fundamentalist Homophobia, Part Two: The Argument is in the Eyebrows

Trigger warning: The following post contains frank descriptions of the hate speech against LGBTQ people...

May 2012

May 30, 2012

Christian Fundamentalist Homophobia, Part One: Generalized Anxiety and Images of Depravity

Trigger warning: The following post contains frank descriptions of the hate speech against LGBTQ people...

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