Tag Archives: Fearless Women
Radical Self Love: Writing Intimate Spaces in the Era of Tyranny (Essay 3 of 52)
Grayscale image. 2 fists raised in the air, against the clouds. Hashtags resist, radical, selflove, and subversive. quote by Mariam Williams

    This week’s essay is posted on The Thought Erotic for its inauguration issue, “We the People Won’t Be…

Faithfully 2015

Last night, as I was wracking my brain to come up with an end-of-year post that was reflective, inspirational and…

Recovering from Spiritual Perfectionism and Searching for Divine Guidance
Illustration: white boy on green chair, little brown dog sits next to him. Text reads: "My trouble was I had a mind. But I couldn't make it up."

In my last column for NCR, I wrote about my somewhat surprising desire to find a church home in my…

A 1954 Case in Defense of Black Womanhood

Blogger’s note: This post was originally published in the Courier-Journal on Sept. 28, 2014 and edited by Pam Platt. For the…

What makes me a feminist?

What makes me a feminist? I’ve been thinking about this question since my feminism history class last night. We were…

Notes from a Daughter of Greatness

“Intergenerational Prostitution.” These words greeted viewers at yesterday morning’s Daughters of Greatness breakfast. I’ve become a regular attendee at the Ali…

The Most Important Ingredient for a Good Sex Scene

As you may know, I spent much of this week at AWP’s 2013 conference in Boston. On the last day,…

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….

An Open Letter to Shonda Rhimes: Bring April’s Sexy Back
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    Dear Ms. Rhimes: Most of the time, I love you and you make me regret not sticking it…

A Glamorous Humanitarian

First, epic fail on my part for not taking any photos at the “Diana: A Celebration” exhibit at Frazier History…

Called to Love in Election 2012

“to be ‘feminist’ in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation…

Enlisted in the War Against the War on Women

Earlier this week, I moderated a community discussion entitled, “Men Respond to the War on Women.” A panel of male…

Show Me the Vagina!
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  If you inquired as to why #VaginaMovieLines was trending on Twitter on Thursday, June 14, you found out that…

Saluting women who work for peace
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   I published the column below in Velocity Weekly in 2009 after seeing the movie, Pray the Devil Back to…

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