For some time now I’ve been suspicious of the anti-trafficking movement, and especially that segment of it that’s specifically Christian. It’s long struck me as sensationalist, focusing on sex work to the exclusion of other forms of forced labor (Hi there, Nike and the US Agriculture industry!), as well as overly broad. It seemed there [...]
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Stuck in Trafficking
January 31, 2013
A Radical Reading of Galatians 3:25:29
July 18, 2012
Galatians 3:25-29 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian, 26 for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. 27 As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is [...]
I have a consent fetish
April 23, 2012
A couple of the fetishes on my FetLife fetish list are things like consent, yes means yes and only yes means yes. These are big deals to me. In fact, they’re probably my only dealbreaker fetishes. I suppose that makes consent the only true fetish I’ve got. It is the one thing I absolutely must [...]
Things I’ve been reading, early November edition
November 4, 2011
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, so this is going to be long. There’s lots of good stuff here, though, on a number of topics. An Outlaw’s Theology I lose my voice! I lose it because my witness and story are not heard. All my life, it is my voice that [...]
Things I’ve been reading
September 27, 2011
A Point of View: Can religion tell us more than science? Myths aren’t relics of childish thinking that humanity leaves behind as it marches towards a more grown-up view of things. They’re stories that tell us something about ourselves that can’t be captured in scientific theories. Just as you don’t have to believe that a [...]