Blogaround

A fuzzy puppy laying flat on the floor. Image source.

1. Why Joy DIDN'T send the Core Memories to HQ with a Recall Tube! - EXPLAINED! (posted March 26) An "Inside Out" theory~

2. Black Marjory Stoneman Douglas students want the movement to include their voices too (posted March 29) "To him, extra cops around doesn’t mean more people to protect him; it means more chances to become a victim of police brutality."

3. Abortion and hospitality: we know what we feel (sometimes) (posted March 13) "You may have been taught that this is what you’re required and expected to feel."

4. That Is Not What ‘Lovesick’ Is (posted March 23) [content note: murder, toxic masculinity] "This is not the way things play out in real life — sometimes a woman is just not interested in you and there just is not a damn thing you can do about it, and we need to start doing more to raise boys who understand this."

5. The Difference Between a Welcoming Church and an Affirming One Is Huge (posted April 3) [content note: queermisic "hate the sin, love the sinner" ideology] Yep this rings true. And I am so done with Christians carefully trying to parse the nuanced meanings of various buzzwords- we are "accepting" and "loving" but not "affirming"- ugh, so done with it.

6. Austen Hartke Loves His Body (posted April 3) An episode of the Queerology podcast where Austen talks about being trans and Christian.

7. The Nazi History Behind ‘Asperger’ (posted March 31) [content note: Nazis, killing children, eugenics]

8. Teenage Activism and Conservative Hypocrisy (posted April 3) [content note: school shootings] "In 1999, evangelicals used the Columbine teens and their tragedy to bolster their calls for revival."

9. Spectrum (posted April 1) An art piece related to asexuality.