If there is such a thing as emotional-maturity-backsliding, and I believe there is, I have been doing it in spades the last few weeks, and it has involved other women. First I saw a tall woman with stylish hair and fabulous cheekbones while I was out shopping in my rumpled coat and goofy hat. AContinue reading >>
God doesn’t make mistakes #FaithFeminisms
God doesn’t make mistakes. This feels like a peculiar way to begin a post that is sure to ramble from my lifelong association with feminism to my confidence as a female leader in the Church, that is likely to meander around the many themes that have come out as people have written this week aboutContinue reading >>
Coming after our bodies
I’ve been thinking lately about the first time someone called me fat. We were in our high school parking lot, and I said something he didn’t like, and he shot back at me “Shut up, you fat bitch”. I don’t remember who it was, or when, or what I said. What I remember is thatContinue reading >>
Seeing as God sees
For many years, displeasure with my appearance circled me like so many moons. It hung in the air, oppressing me with every breath. I thought about my body, my face, my hideousness with such constancy that I can barely call it thinking. It was a way of being. A sad, doleful way of being. TheContinue reading >>
7 hopes for the Bishops’ pastoral document on pornography
I participated in a seminar on Gender, Media and Society a few summers ago, and it ruined my life. It did so by opening my eyes to the rampant commodification of sexuality, corporate manipulation of gender roles, and mainstream acceptance of the degradation of women that make up “porn culture”. Now I see these thingsContinue reading >>