Read #ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing by Emily Joy Allison Beyond Shame: Creating a Healthy Sex Life on Your Own Terms by Matthias Roberts Boys and Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent and Navigating the New Masculinity by Peggy Orenstein Boys: What It Means to Become AContinue reading “Read, Watch, Listen: Towards A Healthy Masculinity”
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Read, Watch, Listen: Centering Women
Read #ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing by Emily Joy Allison 90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality by Allison Yarrow Blood: The science, medicine and mythology of menstruation by Jen Gunter Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Suprising New Science That Will TransformContinue reading “Read, Watch, Listen: Centering Women”
Read, Watch, Listen: All About Pride!
This list will include several recommendations for resources to Read, Watch, and Listen that will related to all things gender identity and sexual orientation, with a focus on 2SLGBTQIA+ themes. The list will be updated periodically. Read Bible, Gender, Sexuality: Reframing the Church’s Debate on Same-Sex Relationships by James V. Brownson Notes: Personal favourite of mine.Continue reading “Read, Watch, Listen: All About Pride!”
Read, Watch, Listen: Sex, Gender, & Sexuality
Note: This list will be updated periodically. Read 90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality by Allison YarrowNotes: Personal Fave, Scholarly A Boob’s Life: How America’s Obsession Shaped Me – and You by Leslie Lehr Notes: Scholarly Beyond Shame: Creating A Healthy Sex Life On Your Own Terms by Mattias Roberts Bible,Continue reading “Read, Watch, Listen: Sex, Gender, & Sexuality”
A Month In Honour of Solo Sex: The History of Masturbation May, and Some Personal Reflections
Content warning: This blog post will talk about adult content and include frank discussion on sex and sexuality. If that’s not your cup of tea, best not read further. Masturbation May: A Brief History Recently, I’ve been seeing some posts by Hannah Witton, a sex educator I follow, who has been mentioning Masturbation May. IContinue reading “A Month In Honour of Solo Sex: The History of Masturbation May, and Some Personal Reflections”
Masculine Pronouns For God: Why We’ve Got It Wrong And Why Jesus Is Worth A Closer Look
Before I became Christian in university, one of the biggest things that bothered me was that God and Jesus were always presented as explicitly male–even C. S. Lewis, who often has a more nuanced understanding as a lay person falls into this trap using some very culturally specific logic to portray God as inherently masculine.Continue reading “Masculine Pronouns For God: Why We’ve Got It Wrong And Why Jesus Is Worth A Closer Look”
Poem: Grow Your Beard
When I was youngI wanted a beard.Thought it looked coolNothing more.When I was a young manHair started sproutingThe time to shave had come.My body betrayed meMy hand too weakMy coordination too poorMy hair growth too fast.Always spots I would missHated how I lookedHated that my failureWas all too obviousLiterally showing on my face.Many a-timeI toldContinue reading “Poem: Grow Your Beard”
Comfortable In The Nude: A Case Study of Body Confidence, Star Wars, and The Dragonriders of Pern
When I was around the age of 10, I started to become increasingly frustrated with my body. It did not perform as well as I would have liked, it was not developing the way I would have liked, and it was becoming more and more a source of ostracization and shame from my peers. YetContinue reading “Comfortable In The Nude: A Case Study of Body Confidence, Star Wars, and The Dragonriders of Pern”
Poem: Afraid To Touch
When I was youngLearning about pubertyI was curiousAnd oh, so afraid.I always loved deeplyBut was oh, so alone.Fascinated by my bodyBut afraid to touch.Afraid to grow.Afraid to explore.When I was a teenBecame a point of prideThat I had not succumbedTo my baser nature.But pride was a maskMask of fear and shame.It wasn’t untilI left myContinue reading “Poem: Afraid To Touch”
Poem: Body Talks
When I was youngI hated my body.Stomach always achingMuscles always hurting.Always too slow.Too small.Too boney.As I grew olderOnly got worse.Penis standing erectAt slightest stray thought.Heart always pounding.Everything too noisy.Too painful.Too overwhelming.Now I love my body.I know how to listenAs my body talks.When I grow sad or angryI know I need food.When I grow fatiguedI knowContinue reading “Poem: Body Talks”
The Dreamers' Corner 