I'm still waiting for a Dorothy Day retrospective!!

Or Joan Chittister or hell the entire Rule of St. Benedict.

The problem is that progressive Christians don't fit the media narrative about Christian women. Notice how they never interview anyone from this organization: http://www.cbeinternational.org/ or how few articles are written about Rachel Held Evans and other feminist Christian voices. Shoot i'd love it if they covered…

I would hope that the writers of Jezebel are aware of the great diversity within Christianity. Not all Christians are white evangelicals or Catholics or from the Bible Belt. Even within Catholicism there's quite a bit of diversity in terms of theology and cultures. The cause of this disconnect is not the Christians,…

Coming from a hardcore Catholic family, the only ones still going along with the anti-birth control thing simply haven't popped out enough kids yet or haven't inherited the wonderful endometriosis or PCOS that plagues the majority of us.

Thank you for writing about this. I had missed the Atlantic article but it doesn't surprise me, given my experience as an outspoken Christian feminist. I am Protestant but I live in a Catholic majority area and this absolutely holds true. My extended family is also Catholic and all my cousins and aunts are on birth…

If you look at the religious denominations that allow women full participation in all leadership positions you will find they are generally pro-birth control and pro-choice. This has been true since the 70s.

I use Internet Explorer. Anything above 1.1 crashes my system.

You just wanted to post this gif didn't you?

Re: "Your not ethnic enough", I'm ambiguously ethnic and it bothers the hell out of people that they can't place me right away. I always want to ask "why, so you know how to treat me based on my ethnicity?"

I've told this story before here. But.

I had to take my mother to the emergency room while I was visiting her one weekend. I ended up staying for several days because she was super sick and my dad is basically incapable of caring for a houseplant, let alone a human. When I got back to my apartment I shared with my ex, the place was totally trashed and he…

I have never been cheated on (that I know of) but I am posting by proxy on behalf of my mother, because this still horrifies me.

My mother found out my father had been cheating on her when her gynecologist insisted on running routine STD testing (despite my mother's protests of "but I've been married ten years and we…

Stop lying to the womens.

It's not really about sweatpants, fellow ladyfriends. Some men actually like sweatpants. It's about letting ourselves go. That's the REAL cause of divorce... Because once we, as women, let ourselves go then we're not physically attractive for our men anymore, and that's the whole reason they love us!

At one point, she asked if he would consider quitting his job to be a stay-at-home father given how much he wanted a baby. "That just wasn't the plan he had in mind," she said.

I adore Bessie Smith and can't wait to see this. She was really some kind of woman. Here is a great excerpt from her biography, "Bessie," by Chris Albertson, that describes an incident at a party that Bessie went to with her niece Ruby Walker (whose account of the incident follows) and three other women after her…

I have a son with autism. Believe me, I've wondered why they can chip my cats & dog but can't place a chip between my kid's shoulders too. It seems drastic until the kid decides to elope from school one day and you're on the phone with 911 etc crying because no one can find the little monster.