Category Archives: Faith
Content Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of hate crimes and a brutal murder of a Black man James Byrd. Jr. at the hands of white racists. The summer James Byrd Jr. was murdered, I was seventeen years old. James was a forty-nine-year-old man in Jasper, Texas, a town just two-and-a-half hours away from my … Continue reading The Church Needs Herd Immunity from White Supremacy
Leaving Evangelicalism for My Queer Christian Faith
If you had told 16 year old me that at 31 years old I would be openly and proudly Bi/Pansexual while also identifying as a Christian, I would have laughed in your face. At 16 years old I believed the false narrative that in order to be Christian, I had to deny a key part … Continue reading Leaving Evangelicalism for My Queer Christian Faith
Spiritual Practices for Queer Christians Coming Out of the Closet
Queer people know what the tomb of Jesus feels like, because we know what the closet feels like. As eight, or eighteen, or forty-eight year olds, we know that a hidden sexuality or gender identity is a boulder at the mouth of a cave you’re stuck in, the light just barely streaming in around the … Continue reading Spiritual Practices for Queer Christians Coming Out of the Closet
Protests Are Not Supposed to be “Nice and Quiet”
White people love to think of ourselves as Nice. This is especially true of a certain brand of white people, many of us middle class and hailing from the Midwest. We pat ourselves on the back with pride for being [Your State Here] Nice. Where I grew up, in a state that is about 94% … Continue reading Protests Are Not Supposed to be “Nice and Quiet”
I Survived a Rural Evangelical Daddy Cult
What’s a “daddy cult”? When progressives hear the word “patriarchy,” they might think of systemic misogyny in politics and business. When I hear that word, I think of the religious framework that kept me and my six younger siblings trapped in our own home. A “daddy cult” is a nuclear-family-sized cult designed and enforced by … Continue reading I Survived a Rural Evangelical Daddy Cult
Anti-Asian Racism is Traumatizing Our Community
As an Asian woman in the mental health field, it is infuriating seeing how authorities in Atlanta have been handling this. The way they excuse the shooter by attributing things to his sex addiction, is not only inaccurate and hurting the Asian communities, but it also further stigmatizes mental illnesses. The misogyny or fetishization of … Continue reading Anti-Asian Racism is Traumatizing Our Community