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July 2018

July 12, 2018

Catholic Men Explain Me to Me

One serious problem is that religious men feel divinely entitled to have a privileged position...

July 04, 2018

I Won’t Be Trying To Say God Next Year: #MeToo and Catholic Writers – UPDATED

it’s clear that women writers have an uphill battle still, when it comes to being...

June 2018

June 11, 2018

The Western Canon, Incels, and a Problem with Pedagogy

How many professors at the kind of schools that emphasize the canon are willing to...

June 07, 2018

Flowers For Virginia: A Visit to Monk’s House

We’d spent the day in places haunted by ghosts, ghosts who comfort us, with their...

June 06, 2018

No, #MeToo is Not the Fault of the Sexual Revolution

It’s a poor argument that contraception is bad because it will lead to the objectification...

May 2018

May 30, 2018

The Stories Our Bodies Tell: Beyond the Theology of the Singular Body

Defining women via receptivity means bracketing out whole categories of deeply personal, bodily, spiritual, and...

May 04, 2018

Catholics Have No Excuses for Justifying Cover-Ups

We have seen clearly what happens when communities and religious organizations cover-up sexual assault.

April 2018

April 13, 2018

NFP and the Cookie-Cutter Woman

It’s only in the area of sexuality – this private, intimate, vulnerable region – that...

April 07, 2018

Media Bias Against Pro-lifers?

It’s not bias when pro-lifers are doing exactly what the media accuses them of doing

March 2018

March 29, 2018

A Problem With Privilege in Abortion Rhetoric

I wonder whether one day we in rich, spoiled America will look back in horror...

March 24, 2018

Stories About Women Perpetuate the Myth of Incompleteless

There is no reason why we shouldn’t have stories about women doing exciting things with...

March 16, 2018

Consent is Necessary. It’s Also Ambiguous

Did Perry wave about a signed affidavit with “permission from feminists granted” on it? Did...

March 09, 2018

Making Ourselves Less of Ourselves

we’re still being constrained by the voices in our head to make ourselves smaller, take...

February 2018

February 07, 2018

How Safe Can Our Art Be?

There's sacrifice demanded by art, but this doesn't mean you sacrifice the lives of others...

February 06, 2018

The Virgin Martyrs of the Early Church: Witnesses to Radical Christian Egalitarianism

Each one refused a forced marriage, and was violently punished for refusing to follow Roman...

February 02, 2018

Respect Begins in Acknowledging the Mystery of the Other

One of them joked, “I don’t usually try to explain things to wives!”

January 2018

January 30, 2018

What’s Amiss in our Catholic Sexual Education?

I was taught that these men would never hurt me

January 29, 2018

They Expected the Women to Remain Silent…

The woman who speaks out can expect to be silenced and ridiculed

January 22, 2018

Aziz Ansari and Respect During Sex

If you are worried about how far is too far in sex before you are...

January 21, 2018

The Poison of Sexual Politics – Even in Christian Dating Culture

I stayed, and like the good girl I had been trained to be, I obeyed....

January 20, 2018

My Statement on the 2018 March for Life

I stand for a movement that seeks to protect all life, but also recognizes the...

January 17, 2018

The Story of the “Worst Date Ever” Was All Too Familiar

He was just a normal guy. That’s the scary thing about it.

January 08, 2018

Dr. Estrangedlove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace My Inner Feminist

Why am I the only woman in the room? Because a male friend of mine...

January 06, 2018

Men: Try This One Weird Trick to Get Respect From Women

You have the power to affirm and amplify the value of a woman’s voice or...

January 05, 2018

Sexual Moral Relativism from the Religious Right?

This is not, unfortunately, the first time I have witnessed the claim that Moore’s misconduct...

January 03, 2018

Our Lady of Righteous Anger

until women are the ones leading the conversation about sex, gender, and equality in the...

October 2017

October 16, 2017

Not You? Then This is Especially For You

Victims need allies in spaces of power

October 04, 2017

It’s Not Just About the Hypocrisy: Representative Tim Murphy, Abortion, and the Problem with Rejecting Consistent Life Ethics

what these men and their supporters represent was never truly pro-life at all

July 2017

July 21, 2017

Women’s Literature: The Stories That Are Not Told

The radical idea that women are people too still hasn’t entirely caught on.

June 2017

June 20, 2017

When Priests Display Misogyny, They Subvert the Persona Christi

The real heart of the problem with this anti-woman approach is not just tacky style,...