Blogaround

1. Journal Club: Trauma and Femininity in the DSM (June 21) "It doesn’t really matter what the women patients want. They’re trying to change their desires because that’s what their male partners want."

2. From Hot Pot to Milk Tea, Chinese Influencer Praised For Exposing False Advertising (June 21) "Some of his most popular videos see him and his friends using weighing scales to check whether hot pot restaurants are serving the same amount of meat as is advertised. More often than not, they find that the meat is not the advertised amount, despite promises from waiters that the meat has been weighed beforehand."

3. The Problems with Power of a Praying Wife: With Download (June 21) "Frames prayer as the key to changing a marriage, even a destructive one with alcoholism or abuse, placing the responsibility for ending a husband’s destructive behaviors on the wife."

4. We need to talk about Jessa Duggar and this "abortion" controversy… (March 4) 16-minute video from Mama Doctor Jones. Jessa Duggar had a miscarriage, and was treated with a D&C, and then people on twitter posted a lot of angry tweets about how Jessa had an abortion and this is so hypocritical because the Duggar family is very politically active in trying to deny people the right to have an abortion. Mama Doctor Jones talks about the words used- miscarriage, abortion, D&C- and how they have different definitions depending on if they're used socially, medically, or politically. And, she says, we need to have compassion for people who lose a wanted pregnancy, as well as compassion for people with an unwanted pregnancy.

5. I think it's always important to consider context and priorities when talking about strategies for advancing political goals. (June 21) "Because we really don't have to and definitely shouldn't be choosing between 'let me explain oh so politely why I deserve dignity and autonomy, or even just survival, but I'll stop if you think it's too annoying' and 'stop making me do emotional labor and Google it--everything I say is infallibly true and you should interrogate yourself if you disagree'."

6. Could You Not Stay Woke? (April 2) [content note: anti-black violence] "But folk did not stay awake. If you woke up when Tyre Nichols was chased down and hunted for sport in the street like an animal, you woke up because you were sleeping on police violence against black and brown folk when it wasn’t in the news every day. Could you not stay awake one hour? Could you not stay woke one hour?"

7. Misogyny, the SBC, and Beth Moore (June 16, via) [content note: mentions of Trump and sexual harassment] "I honestly think Beth’s fate was sealed from the moment that she disclosed she was a survivor of sexual abuse, and that women had been telling her their own stories of survivorship for decades – often for the first time. Beth did not say this to highlight the dangers of secularism, or to encourage women to stay home, or to advance any cause that patriarchy might have accepted. She said to advocate for women. To say that more care needs to be diverted towards women, that women are beings with needs and rights and things they deserve, was always an offense that Beth was going to pay for."

8. On the 11,000 virgin martyrs, iconography, and beauty standards (June 20) "This makes for some pretty incredible pictures where dozens upon dozens of completely identical women set out with St Ursula, who also looks exactly like them but has a crown."

9. Pastor walks out after Christian Reformed Church synod passes anti-LGBTQ+ resolution (June 20) "The next day, the elder Struyk walked to the podium and said, 'Because of the message we sent to many LGBTQ+ people—including my son—I will be leaving synod in protest' and, with that, he walked out the door."