Am I a (Proud) Southerner?
Am I a “Southerner?” Yesterday’s Talk of the Nation made me want to say, “Yes!” I was in the car with my mom when the segment, “What Does It Mean to Be a Southerner?” aired, and nearly every time someone called in, they said something I had either just said to my mom or that [...]
Bringing Black Churches into Reproductive Justice
(For the first Faith & Feminism Friday of 2013, I’m a guest contributor on the “Feminism and Religion” blog. The post starts below and continues there.) I don’t expect to hear anything in church about the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade during the month of January, the month marking 40 years since the U.S. [...]
Why Race Should Matter to Pro-Choice Activists
As I progress with subsequent drafts of my book, I’ve been meeting with another writer for accountability and feedback. In a recent session, we talked—in hushed tones in a coffee shop—about my book being full of themes and situations black women don’t talk about within their own families. They may discuss these topics with [...]
An Open Letter to Shonda Rhimes: Bring April’s Sexy Back
Dear Ms. Rhimes: Most of the time, I love you and you make me regret not sticking it out in L.A. a little longer to become a screen- and television writer. But I need you to do something different with April Kepner. I met Dr. April Kepner on Grey’s Anatomy for the first [...]
God’s Gift of Rape – The Reprise
I’ve already addressed “God’s gift of rape,” but since Indiana republican senate candidate Richard Mourdock has put the phrase back in the news, I’ve had more discussions about it. A friend who is anti-abortion and Christian but also against making abortion illegal, against the GOP in general and against Mourdock and other republican nominees who [...]
God’s gift of rape?
The following is a real* text conversation that took place on February 24, 2012, between me and @Bill1phd, who describes himself as an “Educated Christian Progressive Liberal and PROUD American.” (FYI, he lives up to it, and he also has a PhD in world religion.) ME: Did you watch The Daily Show last night? I [...]
WTF is going on in Arizona?
According to the Huffington Post and also reported in the International Business Times, Arizona state legislator Debbie Lesko has drafted a bill permitting non-religious employers to opt out of offering birth control coverage to their employees if they have a moral objection to it AND permitting those employers to ask their employees to prove they’re [...]
It’s about women, even when it’s about religion
At a hearing titled “Lines Crossed: Separation of Church and State. Has the Obama Administration Trampled on Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Conscience?” on Thursday, not a single witness who would have answered the question, “No,” was invited to testify. Democrats on the committee requested that, per the allowance of Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., [...]
Looking for Plan B: An open letter to girls
To a 16-year-old girl who wants to buy Plan B-One over the counter: Someone in the Obama administration you’ve probably never even heard of made an unprecedented decision concerning you last week. U.S. Health and Human Services Department Secretary Kathleen Sebelius decided that Plan B One-Step, which you probably know as the “morning after pill,” [...]
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