" >Power of Poetry
It’s National Poetry Month, y’all! It’s an art form where words are delicately chosen to convey intense emotional ideas and rhythmically released to maximize their impact, which has sadly not always gotten enough attention. Today I’ve chosen a small handful of powerful works by a few random artists that touch on a variety of topics … Read more
Every F-ing Day of My Life
As much as we may strive to be empathetic, it is not always easy to understand why people make the choices they do. Even if we can theoretically comprehend why someone could feel entitled enough to control and batter their partner, it can be a challenge to figure out why the abused person doesn’t….just…. leave. … Read more
The Bedroom Commandments
Spirituality and sexuality have a long, complicated entanglement. It’s not that they’re not meant to be together: in fact, I would argue that they are. But, like a couple with meddling friends who have not yet sorted out their own lives, they have been pushed and prodded in a million directions. The precise way in … Read more
Approaches to Breaking Up
Pragmatically, if you enter into a relationship, there are two possible outcomes: you either stay together or you break up. This fact, coupled with anxiety about the reality of either option, is why many people aren’t fans of getting into relationships. But most of us still do and very nearly all of us survive the … Read more
Gay Republicans
“It was easier to come out as gay to my Republican friends than it was to come out as Republican to my gay friends” On its face, this quote is supposed to surprise us, subverting the dominant paradigm about who is accepting and who is prejudiced. But sexual orientation is a part of person, whether … Read more
