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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...

September 2012

September 06, 2012

Emotional Control: Mandatory Happiness Makes Me Sad

I recently joined Pinterest. I resisted for a little while, like I always do, but...

August 2012

August 06, 2012

Sexuality Project – Introducing Calulu, Jenn, Meggie, Parker, Shadowspring and Vyckie

Welcome to another round of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project! This time, our writers...

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 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

Sexuality Project: Life Outside the Bubble, Q. 3

This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...

June 2012

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 11, 2012

Fast Cars and Misogyny: How Girls are Prevented from Learning “Masculine” Skills

I recently read Teach Your Children to Succeed by Putting Obstacles in Their Way by Eric...

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 04, 2012

Feminist Mormon Housewives: A gender identity story

Those who read Melissa's story at Permission to Live will probably be interested in this story,...

May 2012

May 27, 2012

Christian Fundamentalist Homophobia: It Really Is About Fear (Introducing a New Series)

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

May 26, 2012

Libby Anne: Raised Quiverfull Project

If you haven't checked out Libby Anne's "Raised Quiverfull" project yet, you're missing out! Raised...

May 24, 2012

The Last Name Project

From Two to One and The Feminist Mystique are co-hosting a series called The Last...

May 23, 2012

Oh, “Brother.”

When I was a kid, I had a really hard time with titles. I felt...

May 22, 2012

Group Identity and Child Abuse

A little while ago, Libby Anne wrote a great post called Sex Abuse, the First...

May 21, 2012

Eagle Cry Radio Cries Some More

Joseph Branham's reactionary letter to the WHAS11 news story on William Branham and the Message...

May 20, 2012

Libby Anne: Christian Patriarchy and Bodily Ownership

(Note: This is cross-posted from Love, Joy, Feminism. The original is here.) By Libby Anne...

May 08, 2012

Homeschooling: The Good

I liked being homeschooled. To this day, I have no problem with it. Nonetheless, I...

May 07, 2012

Homemaking: The Ugly

In my previous two posts, I pointed out the advantages (an orderly house, fresh food,...

May 04, 2012

Homemaking: The Bad

As I wrote in my previous post, the stress on the importance of homemaking in...

May 02, 2012

Homemaking: The Good

A famous tagline from the film Paradise Recovered, uttered by skeptical hippie Gabriel, goes like...

April 2012

April 30, 2012

Essential Reads

Melissa at Permission to Live has just completed a phenomenal series about her journey with...

April 11, 2012

Bedroom Submission, Birth Control and Tokophobia

Like most fundamentalist churches, mine taught that wives were commanded by God to give their...

April 10, 2012

Emotional Incest: The Bottom Line

My last two posts, and indeed all my thinking on the subject has led me...

April 05, 2012

Emotional Incest: The Mama’s Boy and the Other Woman

I have already written about the ways that growing up in fundamentalist-evangelical culture made me...

April 04, 2012

Emotional Incest: The Junior Wife

Libby Anne has begun a series on Emotional Incest at Love, Joy, Feminism. In her...

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