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March 2013

March 20, 2013

Spiritual Abuse Awareness Week: My Guest Post at Rachel Held Evans

Today I'm guest posting at Rachel Held Evans' blog, talking about abuse and images of...

March 11, 2013

Must reads!

Lots of posts that I want to share this week. I hope you'll check them...

March 10, 2013

My body remembers

[TRIGGER WARNINGS: Rape and Abuse] As many of you know, in highschool I spent a...

February 2013

February 21, 2013

Damming up justice: King David, power, and rape

As many of you know, I've been doing research on Christian dating books and their...

February 19, 2013

Must Reads!

It's been awhile since I've had the time to sit down and post links to...

January 2013

January 23, 2013

Let me be angry.

Trigger Warning for abuse and rape: I've been tired of fighting. Been feeling like nothing...

October 2012

October 11, 2012

Men who think consent is overrated are not good men.

TRIGGER WARNING: Rape (thanks to Ryan Stauffer for bringing this to my attention) Recently, The...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

A follow-up on complementarianism and rape culture

{trigger warning for rape} This is a follow up to my recent blog post, "Complimentarianism's...

September 25, 2012

Complementarianism’s ugly relationship with rape

[Trigger warning: rape apologism] [Update: I've changed some mentions of "evangelical leaders" to "complementarian leaders"...

September 16, 2012

Losing my purity…ring.

Hi friends! I'm over at Love, Joy, Feminism today talking about purity rings. My cousin...

September 10, 2012

Esther, Mark Driscoll, and using rape to control women

[Trigger warning for rape apologism and Mark Driscoll quotes] Growing up, the book of Esther was...

August 2012

August 23, 2012

Healing

Trigger warnings for rape and for a slightly gory picture I was raped. Sometimes...

July 2012

July 19, 2012

Rape: A Punishment for Egalitarians?

[Trigger warnings for rape and abuse] Sometimes, conservative Christians are able to cover up the...

May 2012

May 17, 2012

Fear or Love?

Growing up in a Fundamental Baptist high school, I heard some ridiculous arguments against feminism....

April 2012

April 05, 2012

Why I’m not signing a petition against Mark Driscoll

*Trigger Warning for rape and spiritual abuse (but don't worry--if you get upset, just click...

January 2012

January 29, 2012

Rape does NOT equal sex, Jeff Bethke!

Trigger Warnings: We're talking about rape again today. A couple weeks ago, when the "Jesus vs....

January 27, 2012

Sometimes you fight. Sometimes you pray for peace.

It's been a rough week for many of us survivors of rape. Some of the...

January 26, 2012

Rape culture, Relevant Magazine, and other things that make me want to swear a lot

Trigger warnings: rape, and rape enabling Some of the responses to Joe Paterno's death were triggering...

December 2011

December 13, 2011

So, what about the men?

1 in 6 boys will be sexually assaulted by age 18.* 1 in 33 men...

September 2011

September 19, 2011

Is it wrong to steal a car?

Is it wrong to steal a car? What if the owner of that car was...