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September 2018

September 22, 2018

Bad Ethics, Bad Logic, and Sexual Assault Apologetics

Approaching sexual ethics this way is profoundly de-personalizing. It takes away agency and responsibility from...

September 18, 2018

Off My Knees: A Victim Remembers

My response? “Well, at least he was on only one knee.” From that position, he...

September 17, 2018

It’s Not Puritanical To Object To Sexual Assault

It’s not puritanical for us to stick by the single sine qua non for a...

September 13, 2018

How Do You Respond When The Perpetrator Is One Of Your Own?

No matter how hard it is for us to accept that the men we viewed...

September 08, 2018

Abuse and Alienation: In The Church, Away From Yourself

In brief, when your church is the center of your community’s social life—whether in a...

August 2018

August 30, 2018

Victims Have the Right To Be Heard – Whenever They Are Ready

Given the repressive conditions I’ve described—one in which authority is not questioned, church leaders have...

August 22, 2018

Am I My Church’s Keeper? A Laywoman Ponders Her Responsibility

Above all, though, I feel that I have spent my life as a Catholic with...

August 16, 2018

Yes, There Is An Institutional Problem: Power

The problem is power. Any concentration of power in a single demographic will lead ultimately...

August 14, 2018

On The Clerical Sex Abuse Scandal, Scapegoating, and Justice

It’s important to distinguish between scapegoating and the pursuit of justice, and not to try...

July 2018

July 28, 2018

I Spent NFP Awareness Week In Conversation With Questioners

In an intellectual arena where Catholic speakers and writers feel comfortable openly mocking the church’s...

July 12, 2018

Catholic Men Explain Me to Me

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

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 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 20, 2018

The Toxic Spirituality of Fetishizing Suffering

The failure to understand the nature of suffering means that one fails in spiritual discernment...

April 13, 2018

NFP and the Cookie-Cutter Woman

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

March 2018

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...

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...