How To Get Women To Like Sci-Fi

Tell them it’s good. Convince them that much of it has great storylines, exciting action, interesting characters and uses metaphor to make complex points about human nature/interaction/politics/religion. You’ll find this strategy works much the same way on your male friends who have also always assumed that sci-fi is mainly just childish wish-fulfillment and gadget-driven drivel.
Pardon [...]

Long Rambles Through the Anglican Communion (Part One of Possibly Many)

I stumbled onto these thoughts about “The Anglican Church, Sexuality and Colonialism” earlier this week, and want to add to them, but don’t quite know what to say. It’s a short post, but it’s a question that I wish weren’t as complicated as it is.
Now, in as much as I’m anything, denominationally speaking, I’m Anglican, [...]

How I Became A Sex-Positive Christian

It’s a bit tough for me to ask that question, actually, because I haven’t struggled all that much to reconcile my feminist/sex-positive beliefs with biblical or Church teachings. I came to faith long after I came to feminism, and because of that, or for any number of other reasons, my convictions about how I should [...]

Using That Word

As I’m sure you’ve all been totally devastated by the absence of Purtek’s thoughts over the past couple of weeks, I feel like I should offer some sort of explanation for my bloglessness. Except that there really isn’t one, except that the absence of Purtek’s thoughts has not been limited to the blog version; the [...]

De-Humanizing

This is the result of turning people into products, of using words that allow you to think of human beings as commodities, problems, objects.
As Nezua says:
If only this 17 year old girl had been seen as a human being, working hard for a future, and in need of certain care and protection. Like water. And [...]

How I Became a Sex-Positive Feminist

So a lot of people have already answered this question, but as usual, I’m slow with the thinking. See brilliance, for example, from Sarah J, from Caroline, from belledame (note particularly belledame’s points about the heteronormative attitude toward female same-sex attraction in the question).
It’s an extremely frustrating question. I joined in the snark inherent in [...]

Female Desire Week: Post Stanley Cup Edition

Renegade Evolution has declared it “Female Desire Week” in response to a question from Laura at the F-word. I want to respond a little bit more to the question asked there later, but for now, I have no interest in being think-y, like, at all.
Me, I’ll bring out the hockey fan persona that I’ve thus [...]

Community: Loving Your Neighbour

Philomela has initiated the first Carnival for Progressive Christians and suggested “community” as an initial theme. It’s telling that the blog that’s being used as the homepage for this carnival is titled “without a church”, because so many Christians who fit the definition given there struggle to find a spiritual home that is supportive to [...]