Hännah Ettinger blogs, tweets, is the founding publisher of The Swan Children Magazine, and dishes feminist critique of YA novels over at The YA Wallpaper.
I love that this is getting talked about. Evangelical purity culture is so ridden with shame and unhealthy, irrational obsession over virginity (hey guys! scientifically speaking, it doesn’t even EXIST), and women are starting to speak out about how waiting until marriage didn’t help them. Beth Morey wrote a beautiful, heartbreaking piece recently about coming to terms with her own lack of knowledge about her own sexuality because of purity culture teachings: Read more
I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS NEWS! But I’m really perplexed why it’s not making bigger waves in media circles: the Ugandan Constitutional Court ruled their Anti-Homosexuality Act “null and void” last week. This law — which was once dubbed the “Kill the Gays” bill before becoming the “Just Put Gay People in Jail for Life” bill — has been a nightmare for LGBT people in Uganda since it passed at the end of December last year. Read more
The latest in the continuing saga of Pastor Mark Driscoll and Mars Hill Church: on Sunday morning, people took to the streets in Bellevue, Washington to protest the continually misogynistic, homophobic, and unethical ministry practices of Driscoll and call for his resignation. The events leading up to this require a bit of a recap. Read more
Ergun Caner is the alleged evangelical con man who pretended to be a defected ex-Muslim terrorist from Turkey and was the dean for Liberty University’s seminary until his actual past as a non-Muslim Swedish immigrant was exposed about a year ago. He continues to work as a Baptist minister and is currently the president of Brewton-Parker College in Georgia. Criticism aside for a moment, his 15-year-old son Braxton reportedly committed suicide last week. Caner confirmed the death on Twitter, saying: Read more
