So, let me get this straight– You want me to stop being a lesbian and being attracted to women because it is a ‘sin’? Last time I checked, when you lie you are sinning. Sure,...

Teaching and learning religious plurality often ends up privileging religious texts over practice and largely ignoring the social and historical contexts and the lived experience of people who shape, situate, and structure these religious texts.

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.

I realized the preserving a relationship at all costs was not as important as affirming the human right to be free from abusive treatment.

It is strange… the reasons one feels he doesn’t deserve things.

Hai finito di fare lo stronzo con me adesso?- Quasi. Tutto ciò che ho da dire è che non puoi fare il paladino degli oppressi di professione. Si, le cose sono migliorate per i neri...

Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no longer attracted to women and am straight, or I could even tell you the moon is made of cheese....

I didn’t set out to do a gay comic, but given the current political and religious climate in this country, I feel it is important as a gay person, and a Christian, to create stories...

Every single courageous act of coming out chips away at the curse of homophobia. Most importantly it’s destroyed within yourself, and that act creates the potential for its destruction where it exists in friends, family...

Privilege is not knowing that you’re hurting others and not listening when they tell you.

As though I had displeased the gods with my erotic hubris, I managed to be the only bisexual girl in the history of colleges who failed to arouse the interest of the campus queers immediately...

I don’t mean to take the bow off the end of your rain, but you gotta be smart about your first boyfriend.

Just because I am queer doesn’t mean I am queer for you

Together, in that room, our childhood notions of love melted away. We discovered love was not a fairytale. Sometimes there were no happy endings, and when there were, you needed to work like hell to...

Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.

To all my friends who constantly talk disparagingly about the supposed ‘homosexual lifestyle’ and stereotype gay people and the community, I’d like to get this straight. There are essentially two worlds – the ‘gay scene’...

What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege?

Any story dealing, however seriously, with homosexual love is taken to be a story about homosexuality while stories dealing with heterosexual love are seen as stories about the individual people they portray. This is as...