On Raising the Dead
TW Sexual Assault and Vote Shaming I was abducted from my home when I was three years old and sexually assaulted. Although a terrible event in my life, other tragedies have hurt me more....
Category: Culture
On the election, and feeling unsafe
I canvassed for Hillary on Monday. I live in a swing state, so I took my three year-old daughter out with me and a fellow Democrat to knock the doors of registered Democrats,...
Poems of Exclusion
The new Exclusion Policy was leaked to social media on November 5, 2015, which labels same-sex married couples as apostates and prohibits baptism and other ordinances for their children. EmilyHB and I wrote poems soon...
A Halloween Memory
When I was 10 or 11, my father declared that Halloween was too evil for us to celebrate. He forbade my mother from buying Halloween treats, and didn’t let my 5 siblings or me...
Hillary Clinton just talked about abortion rights at a Catholic college
Overwhelmingly, it is the deeply moral women of America who are deciding this election.
Princess Leia, the Gold Bikini, and Teaching Morality to my Kindergartner
Despite never having seen Return of the Jedi, my 5-year-old loves all things Star Wars. While perusing an “easy reader” from the library, he came across a photo of Princess Leia chained up to...
Values and Power in a Changing World
One of my best friends, Jocelyn, whom I left behind in Seattle, sent a friend of hers to me through Facebook messenger today. I have met him a few times – the first time...
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