Get It While You Can: The Dating Profile of Kara Crawford
In an attempt to become more like the shiksa yentas of their dreams, Nico and Patrick have developed a questionnaire for willing writers to fill out. They feel this will […]
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It Gets Weirder: Why It’s Okay to Be Your (Quirky) Self
by: Kara Crawford Dear Karita, You’re now about eight and a half years old and will soon start what is easily the most awkward phase of your life. However, I’m […]
Still Fighting for Equality in the UMC: Honoring Anna Howard Shaw
by: Kara Crawford In honor of March being Women’s History Month, I have been thinking a lot about the many women throughout history and in various parts of the world […]
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 […]
Enough is Enough: Speaking Out About the Right-Wing Media’s War on Women
by: Kara Crawford Over the past several months, we have witnessed a great deal of political chaos and turmoil, and of course, I’m talking mostly about the right wing of […]
Stuff Young Privileged White Liberals Like
by: Kara Crawford In recent years, certain trends among liberals–primarily young, privileged, white liberals (henceforth referred to as YPWLs)–have become apparent to me. I don’t fundamentally object to most of them, but […]
Just the Same: The Framing of All American Muslim
by: Kara Crawford Though I’m not currently in the US, it seems to me that the relatively new TLC show, “All-American Muslim,” was at its outset making quite the buzz. […]
The State of Sex: What I Want to Change About High School Sex Ed
by: Kara Crawford Sex education in my public high school was terrible, to the best of my memory. Rumors flew around the school that we had the highest teen pregnancy […]
Colombia, Te Quiero: A Love Letter to My Current Home
by: Kara Crawford I have this habit of dating my work. Some might call me a workaholic, but I like to think of it as that I’m passionate about what […]
Commitment to Grace: Why I Won’t Give Up on the Methodist Church
by: Kara Crawford I am a self-avowed, practicing United Methodist [1]. I’m a Christian. I identify with an institutionalized religion. I’m a citizen of Queerville, and I’ve had an ongoing […]
