Carli’s Story of Survival (Aurora Shooting)
…open. It doesn’t violently swing open, and it also doesn’t very quietly creep open. The door opened as anyone would normally, nonchalantly open a door. A man enters, wearing what…
Member Spotlight: Corinne Zimmerman
…able to help ‘everywhere’. Born in Saskatchewan, Canada, Corinne was “technically” raised Catholic. Family on both sides followed this tradition. Out of convenience for her two working parents, Corinne went…
Quiverfull Mega-Moms Matter the Mostest
…easy to feel like even our most hard-won academic, professional, and personal achievements hardly make any impression at all upon the pale blue dot which we humans inhabit. We know instinctively that…
Interview with Secular Woman Carli R.- Aurora Shooting Survivor
…but surely, I’m recovering, and I have the best support system that anyone could possibly ask for. My family, and that includes my boyfriend and my “therapy dog”, are my…
On Rape Jokes
…of writing needs to be a thinly veiled autobiography. If we insisted on only writing permutations of experiences we’ve actually lived through, we’d eliminate entire genres of fiction. At heart,…
Member Spotlight: Martin S. Pribble
…raised in Australia, Pribble’s family was nominally Christian. Churchgoing was reserved for extended family, but he, his parents, and his brother celebrated major holidays of the faith, and participated in…
A White Woman’s Privilege
…women. My sister is six years younger than me; I’m almost an only child. I have no brothers. Within the family, I never saw boys and girls treated differently. I…
If Clara Schumann Had Only Been a Man!
…to carve out a bit of personal fame in a thoroughly masculine world, was ultimately depicted primarily in the role which her patriarchal culture insisted was the only legitimate one…
Women’s History Month Recap
…Even a woman like Clara Schumann, who had managed to carve out a bit of personal fame in a thoroughly masculine world, was ultimately depicted primarily in the role which…
Charles Loelius Letter to CFI
…Not only because my local groups, just as the national ones, have a problem with bigots and sexists, but because I am genuinely interested in the future of the secular…