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January 2018

January 15, 2018

Am I a Racist? An Examination of Conscience

The first step in freeing oneself from sin, after all, is admitting that one is...

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 03, 2017

Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act: Reasonable Legislation in Defense of Life

We need to have humane laws such as this in place

September 2017

September 16, 2017

Join us in the Revolution of Tenderness

I believe literature is by its very nature interdisciplinary, and creates a space in which...

September 08, 2017

“Fine Folks” and the Banality of Evil

The degeneration into evil happens for the most trivial reasons, in a bourgeois middle-class manner,...

August 2017

August 29, 2017

Why the Pro-Life Movement Needs to Be Rebuilt

In recent weeks, I have observed an alarming uptick in tolerance for racism among Catholic...

August 15, 2017

Does Opposing Nazis Make You “Leftist”?

How many pleasant, decent, respectable Republicans are framing this as a conflict between two political...

May 2017

May 29, 2017

When the Right Supports the Burning of the Flag

But there are some things no power, state or federal, has a right to decree.

May 24, 2017

Abortion: the Most Important Moral Issue Ever….Except for When it’s Not

Let that sink in. A young woman in a crisis pregnancy chose life, but Christians...

May 18, 2017

When You Say You’re Not a Racist

White people hate being accused of racism. When topics of racism come up, among White...

May 15, 2017

the cultural ambiguity in our honoring of mothers

What is amiss is that we are not honoring women in their many, varied capabilities...

May 04, 2017

how not to be pro-life: a quick overview

Tell parents of disabled children to start a GoFundMe, or maybe a bake sale! It's...

April 2017

April 19, 2017

who’s listening when we talk about abortion?

You see what the woman is running towards. You don’t see what she’s running from.

April 13, 2017

this is not the God of vengeance

His disciples must really not have been paying attention to half his teachings, if they...

March 2017

March 22, 2017

The Ever-Moving Goalpost of Eliminating Abortion Supply

What is emerging is a right-wing narrative that favors eugenics, nativism, social Darwinism, and white...

March 18, 2017

the feast of st. patrick, potato famine, and the consequences of injustice

So if indigenous slaves hadn't been forced to harvest bat poo in Peru, and if...

March 10, 2017

H.R. 1313: part of the trend of eugenics

And would people of Jewish descent - or other genetically at-risk demographics - be especially...

March 08, 2017

things not to say, if you actually respect women

If you're passing around memes mocking contemporary feminists, you are the type who would have...

March 03, 2017

the defense of the unborn, and the demands of justice

If you wake up one day with a violinist attached to you it is unjust,...

February 2017

February 28, 2017

Carnivale and Social Justice

The purpose of ritual licence, in which everything but violence is permitted, and no guilt...

February 27, 2017

talking to my child about privilege

My son, usually very relaxed about conversations on topics of justice, rolled his eyes. "But...

February 21, 2017

how should a christian respond to milo?

Our image of the loser guy in his mom's basement drooling over porn and proliferating...

February 10, 2017

ten things we feminists wish you knew about us

First of all: there are many feminisms. What you learn about what feminist, or one...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

sexist reactions legitimize the women’s march

While I never hid the fact that I was critical of several aspects of the...

January 27, 2017

I’m pro-life, and that’s why I oppose Trump

It's a given that being pro-life means defending the dignity of the unborn. But from...

January 24, 2017

“save the storks”: a pro-life organization to support

We think abortion will end when women don’t feel they have to end their pregnancies...

January 22, 2017

whether you’re marching for life or not, you can always donate for justice (too)

Reprinted from the New Pro Life page There was a lot of discussion in our...