Recent Blog Posts
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Pages from a pregnancy crisis center manual
I currently live in Wichita, Kansas. It’s where I was born and raised. I moved away for college, and then elsewhere for the rest of college, and then out of the country for grad school, and then back to the states and back to Wichita. It’s a good city in which to be a kid…
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Pursuing happiness together
Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka’s weddingwith fireworks. Source Over the Independence Day weekend, I kept on thinking about dignity after writing this post. In particular I considered dignity as it relates to the pursuit of happiness, to which we all have a right according to the Declaration of Independence. I wondered if I’d managed…
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Dignity in light of Obergefell: What Thomas just doesn’t get
Image: A black person’s hand and a white person’s handforming a heart. Someday somebody’s gonna ask you A question that you should say yes to Once in your life Maybe tonight I’ve got a question for you — “Question,” Old 97’s Control over your own life. Since we were old enough to recognize the concept, each one of us…
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Happy Father’s Day
This year’s Father’s Day card: (How I made it below the jump) I like to draw animals in clothes, and I found myself with a lot of patterned paper on hand, so of course I did what any person would do in such a situation– I made a father’s day card featuring animals* in clothes…
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Pretending to be
Spotted on Facebook: Left side: Photo of Caitlyn Jenner on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine. Caption: “Pretending to be awoman: Must accept and approve of”Right side: Photo of Rachel Dolezal. Caption: “Pretending tobe black: Unacceptable!! We disapprove” The people I see most often making the equivocation/slippery slope argument between “acceptance” of transgenderism and “acceptance”…
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We have to make the comparisons…they will anyway
I was all set to write a post on TERFS, right before Caitlyn Jenner came out. I had several paragraphs written, comparing trans-exclusionary radical feminism to regular transphobia, explaining how regular transphobia tends to be rooted in religious belief and social conservatism, whereas TERFism comes more from a second wave feminist idea of a sisterhood…