I attended a conference session called, “Defusing the Power of Toxic Religion for Sexual Advocacy,†because I’m writing a memoir…
At a table on the quiet side of the room, five black women are talking. Sex. Helping a friend…
Do you wear a wig around the house, even when you’re by yourself? I do, and I feel conflicted about…
How is a church like prison and being incarcerated like belonging to a church? Both have a way of asking,…
I’ve been trying to process why Prince’s death feels so much worse to me than Michael Jackson’s or even Whitney…
In a past life, I slut-shamed my future husband. Except I can’t really call it slut-shaming, because the standards of…
I came across the above quote last semester in my academic research but returned to it in June, when the…
One of the reasons I stopped working on my memoir was because when an agent strongly suggested I adapt my…
While my parents were teaching me to be the best student I could be, my Christian faith taught me to…
April, the only character on Grey’s Anatomy who identifies as Christian and the only one who has conflicts about…
(For the first Faith & Feminism Friday of 2013, I’m a guest contributor on the “Feminism and Religion” blog. The…