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February 2021

February 21, 2021

Rush Limbaugh Would Never Have Succeeded In an Ethical Society

Right-minded folks should never have responded to slurs directed against AIDS sufferers, non-white children, and...

October 2020

October 22, 2020

Should We Be Gatekeeping Feminism?

Of course, maybe you are white enough, privileged enough, rich enough, so that Trump's policies...

February 2020

February 08, 2020

Reclaiming Our Bodies As Subjects: Women and the Objectifying Gaze

What if, instead of judging what a woman in the world represents to a particular...

September 2019

September 11, 2019

Yes, Catholic Women Should Preach. But Why Is This So Frightening?

Why is it so important for them to keep us silent? What do they have...

August 2019

August 18, 2019

My Response to the Men Who Think It’s a Sin For Women To Work Outside the Home

So here's what I have to say, ultimately, to the Twitter trad-bros who are trying...

March 2019

March 25, 2019

It’s Not About Muslim or Christian. It’s About Extremism

We need to get over thinking in terms of religious wars and conquest, get over...

March 08, 2019

Are You A Feminist Just Because You Say You Are?

I’m sorry, but if you don't just differ on certain points, but in fact stand...

November 2018

November 16, 2018

“Traditional Catholicism” and Fetishization of Women

They are not presented as subjects, as women with interiority and a story. They are...

August 2018

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...

April 2018

April 22, 2018

About That Church Militant Article Going Around, and That Alumni Letter…

If objecting to racism, sexism, and theological dissent is seen as an “attack” on conservative...

March 2018

March 11, 2018

Why Does the Right Hate Intersectionality?

The thing about intersectionality is that it refutes what-about-ism.

January 2018

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 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...

April 2017

April 24, 2017

When Christian Women Tell You What We Hear

"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" is taken as an...

March 2017

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...

February 2017

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 16, 2017

women’s march drops pro-life group – what’s a pro-life feminist to do?

We should not be excluded from this march. We have risked personal and professional relationships...

January 11, 2017

they tell me my body is sacred. what does this really mean?

we have a theology that likes to reference female sacred-ness in order to keep us...

January 10, 2017

who’s waging war on men, again? the anti-feminist caricature of men

Add a shot of internalized misogyny, and we have a woman who is more disgusted...

January 06, 2017

Raising the Standard for our Female Characters

What if the situation were reversed? What if we had an overweight woman with a...

November 2016

November 03, 2016

Catholic Women Have Mary – So What Are We Complaining About?

We don't have Mary. The men have her, neatly fossilized in pink-and-white statues, silent, subdued.

October 2016

October 27, 2016

intersectional feminism and the new prolife movement

I am not going to use this space to debate questions about hierarchies of rights,...

October 17, 2016

looks like we need a little refresher course on consent

But do women deserve to be forcibly groped because they read a book about sexual...

September 2016

September 18, 2016

the hijab at new york fashion week provides a curious exercise in intersectional thinking

fashion has always been about ideology, and the ideology has almost always been sexist: whether...

August 2016

August 21, 2016

catholic and feminist: identity, action, and faith

Looking anew at Mary and other female saints – looking anew at the women of...

August 15, 2016

sexism in the olympics? you shouldn’t be surprised

Professional and social media have been inundated with stories about sexism in the...

July 2016

July 28, 2016

natural fertility management: one feminist perspective

I have been accused of using contraception by those who think that NFP is acceptable...

April 2016

April 21, 2016

a reflection on the radical christian feminism of charlotte brontë, on the bicentennial of her birth

The term "feminist" was not invented yet, in Charlotte Brontë's day, but I will permit...

April 09, 2016

How Feminism Strengthened My Christianity

I dared to think, and to see Mary as a woman who thought, who contemplated,...