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Preacher's Daughter: Gillian Welch's "Dark Turn of Mind"
Americana artist Gillian Welch has always included southern Christian imagery in her work. Though not native to the South, her music is at its most comfortable when it explores the tragedy and violence of working-class survival in the region. Welch and partner David Rawlings write and record sparse... Read more »
Thursday Night 'Lights: NBC's New Must-See TV (and Whitney)
Like many people in the ’90s, I tuned into NBC’s enormously popular Thursday night comedy block for Friends, Seinfeld and many other shows in that time slot over the decade. At the time, it was like the TV equivalent of seeing Jurassic Park... Read more »
Tropes vs. Women: #6 The Straw Feminist
The Straw Feminist trope is a deliberately created, exaggerated caricature of a feminist that is used to undermine and ridicule feminist movements.
Links and transcript after the jump!
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Douchebag Decree: TV Guide Declares Taraji P. Henson Not a "Person of Interest"
Oscar-nominated actor Taraji P. Henson stars in the new CBS drama Person of Interest, but you wouldn’t know that if you asked TV Guide.
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Preacher's Daughter: "We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest" in Wake of Troy Davis' Judicial Lynching
One might have hoped that, by this hour, the very sight of chains on black flesh, or the very sight of chains, would be so intolerable a sight for the American people, and so unbearable a memory, that they would themselves spontaneously rise up and strike off the manacles. But no, they appear... Read more »
Bibliobitch: The Beginners
“Our life here is just like an old horror movie,” muses the loquacious, inscrutable Raquel Motherwell near the end of Rebecca Wolff’s debut novel, The Beginners. “It’s like the skeleton of the... Read more »
Preacher's Daughter: Q&A with Lesbian Christian Singer-Songwriter Jennifer Knapp
In May, Religion Dispatches published my first interview with former... Read more »
Sexual Inadequacy: Bisexuality Comics!
The first panel of the third row is by far my favorite, contrasting the dominant culture’s reaction to two forms of sexual attraction. From private conversations I’ve had with gay men in the past I know that some of them believe that this is evidence that same sex attraction is easier... Read more »
2 Broke Girls: 2 Bad 2 Watch
I watched 2 Broke Girls last night with what I felt were managed expectations. The show was co-created by a woman, but that woman is... Read more »
On Our Radar
Phew, what a weekend! Why don’t you kick back, relax and read some of our favorite posts from the Internet from last week with this special On Our Radar, Special Monday edition!
Get ready to toss some rice and shed some tears because Kevin Keller, the first openly homosexual member of... Read more »
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