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March 2020

March 06, 2020

In Case You Were Wondering, We Still Need Feminism

The women who are mourning the fact that Warren dropped out of the race -...

February 2020

February 13, 2020

It’s Not the Divisiveness That Is the Problem

Dial the clock back sixty years: were we united, as a nation, at a time...

January 2020

January 23, 2020

Trump’s Attendance At the March For Life Is Significant – But Not In the Way His Supporters Claim

With Trump as their figurehead, the pro-life movement now looks, to anyone outside his cult...

January 17, 2020

We Need To Talk About Sexism In Politics

It is impossible for any woman to take the lead in this society without being...

January 12, 2020

Those Who Shamed Us For Immorality Are Now Its Biggest Defenders: The Gaslighting Cycle of the Christian Trump Supporter

The hypocrisy of those who claim to defend decency while standing up for everything that...

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...

April 2019

April 07, 2019

When Those Who Loved You Into the Church Are Hating You Out of It

Here’s a piece of advice as I remove all of you from my life -...

March 2019

March 26, 2019

On Just Wages, Church Teaching, and the Plight of the University Adjunct

any school that defrauds its workers of their just wages, does not count as authentically...

July 2018

July 12, 2018

The Pro-Life Movement Has Lost

This is why the movement has lost: it no longer has a moral platform to...

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 11, 2018

Why Does the Right Hate Intersectionality?

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

February 2018

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 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 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 03, 2018

Our Lady of Righteous Anger

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

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 31, 2017

on the mike pence dining option, and why feminists are expressing criticism

In the flurry of debate arising about Mike Pence's rules for association with women other...

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...

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...

December 2016

December 02, 2016

all these years of yoga, and I’m still not possessed

there's a hint of western supremacy in these arguments, because the same people who dread...

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...

May 2016

May 16, 2016

jesus loves your fat: why fat-shaming is not christian

Jesus loves us, fat and all. Self-loathing and all.

May 02, 2016

modesty, it turns out, is a thing – but not the thing they said it was

We often hear sermons or admonitions against scanty dress in women, but rarely do we...