Poetry: Standing On Lone Peak
by: Nick Keenan when you color the sky with the colors of my burning spirit, make them loud and violent. drizzle them over the gardens in which i once played. […]
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Sea of Bliss: A Lesbian in a Latin Club
by: Shelly Phillips It’s a surprisingly cold night for October, and a friend and I arrive at a hole-in-the-wall Latin nightclub called Tequila in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan. Upon entering […]
Occupy Birth Control
by: Sarah J. Jackson Note: This piece was originally posted at Role/Reboot and was republished with permission. You can find the original here. I just finished reading 99 Nights With the […]
Not the Word of God: Reactions to the Westboro Baptist Church’s Planned Picketing of Harrisburg
by: Kara Crawford At the beginning of March, it came to my attention through the central-and-southern Illinois social media grapevine that Fred Phelps and his church family hate group, the […]
I Don’t Care About Rush Limbaugh. Really, I Don’t.
by: Maggie Carr A lot of people were shocked and appalled by this past week’s Rushgate, but friends, I am not among their number. Admittedly, it’s sorta validating to see […]
Konygate 2012: Awareness, Intent, and Action
by: Mar Curran I would like to start this off by telling you were I am coming from. I am white and male-identified. I am coming from a middle class, […]
Finding Common Ground with Faith: Why We Should Reclaim Atheism from Fundamentalists
by: Mariann Devlin A few weeks ago I wrote about how Christians ought to wrest Christianity’s image from the icy cold grip of conservative fundamentalists. I still believe that, but […]
Poetry: “I Submit”
by: Joe Varisco I submit. I accept defeat. I have struggled and lost. I will sit and feel the thumping of my chest, the heat flushing over my face and […]
Bad With Men: He Actually Kept Score
By: Dana Norris Dana Norris is the founder and host of Story Club. She once went on 120 internet dates. These were dates 10-11. So I reactivated my account on […]
Through the Rain: What Mark Aguhar Taught Me
by: Lindsey Dietzler We have so much to learn from the people that come into our lives. In the beginning I thought I had a lot that I could offer […]
