Thanks to the University Press of Kansas for inviting me to contribute to their blog series. I appreciated the opportunity to think more deeply about a question that continues to draw me in: How do we love and hate at the same time? This kind of thinking never gets done alone, and so I want... Continue Reading →
Follow-Up to Weber State Brown Bag
Content alert: religiously-justified violence against and neglect of children Thanks to the Weber State University Sociology and Anthropology Department for inviting me to speak at a brown bag event recently, focusing on family life and children and youth in Westboro Baptist Church. The students were eager listeners who asked great questions. At the time of... Continue Reading →
UPK Meet-the-Author
University Press of Kansas has been great to work throughout the process of bringing God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right to publication. Today, they've featured me in a meet-the-author profile. Thanks to Derek Helms for a great conversation about how my undergraduate years in central Pennsylvania helped prepare me to work with right... Continue Reading →
Oxford’s new Introduction to WGSS is out!
I'm so happy to have an essay appear alongside work by my KU friends Hannah Britton, DaMaris Hill, and Liam Lair--plus contributions by Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, bell hooks, Marilyn Frye, CJ Pascoe, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, Gloria Anzaldúa, Gloria Steinem, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Gorilla Girl, Bikini Kill, Rosamarie Garland-Thomson, and dozens of other fantastic authors... Continue Reading →