2014
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Some Thoughts on Snowpiercer
*Spoilers all throughout this piece. The train is a lie. It seems likely that it’s conditions for possibility are based on a lie (in my view it seems likely that Wilford manufactured the climate crisis himself or with others in… Continue reading
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Parisian Religious History: A Visit to Port-Royal
However, there are two little-known sites that I encourage anyone interested in French religious history to go see: the former convents of Port-Royal du Paris and Port-Royal des Champs. I’d like to use this blog post to explain why you… Continue reading
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A Reasonable Violence: Why Third Way is the Worst Way
A recent post from Zach Hoag on LGBT persons and the blessings they bring to the church troubled me and reminded me of why I think third way is the worst way. Namely, its appearance as well reasoned and the… Continue reading
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#Sorrynotsorry: on sexual abuse in the church
The Australian government is currently conducting a Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse. A major focus of this investigation has been the church; how the individual denominations have responded to allegations of sexual abuse, and how the… Continue reading
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All Tigers Have Stripes; All Gay People Are Sexually Attracted to Their Own Sex
I most love blogging for the way it places me just a keystroke away from people I would otherwise never even pass by on the street. I can communicate with and receive feedback from anyone with an internet connection. In… Continue reading
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Gay and Catholic? A Response to Eve Tushnet
Earlier this month, the Jesuit magazine America published an interview with lesbian Catholic blogger Eve Tushnet. More than just an uncommonly gifted writer, Tushnet also tells an unconventional conversion story. She is proudly gay and unafraid to call the church… Continue reading
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Trigger Warnings, Trauma, & a Politics of “Thick Life:” On Halberstam’s “You are Triggering Me,” and Povinelli’s Empire of Love
One of the main discourses to constitute social differentiation as hierarchy and domination is that of binary opposition. –Janet Jakobsen, 1998 … Continue reading
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On Gender, Authority, and Gloss: A Story from College
Unsure what to write about this month, I asked around for blog post topics people might like to see me explore. Somebody suggested that I write about things that high schoolers should know before arriving at college, so I’ll run… Continue reading
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On Žižek and Identity Politics
In a recent Facebook discussion I got drawn into regarding Zizek and identity politics, I started by arguing for an understanding of identity politics that is not synonymous with the politics of representation and recognition that desire more POC or… Continue reading