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