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Book Notes: God Is Not a Christian by Desmond Tutu: God Is Clearly Not A...
I read God Is Not a Christian: And Other Provocations by Desmond Tutu, and it is one of the most amazing books I have ever read. I greatly recommend it, whatever your religious beliefs. Desmond Tutu,...
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Book Notes: God Is Not a Christian by Desmond Tutu: What About Justice?
I read God Is Not a Christian: And Other Provocations by Desmond Tutu, and it is one of the most amazing books I have read. I greatly recommend it, whatever your religious beliefs. Desmond Tutu,...
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Book Notes: God Is Not a Christian by Desmond Tutu: Our Glorious Diversity
I read God Is Not a Christian: And Other Provocations by Desmond Tutu, and it is one of the most amazing books I have read. I greatly recommend it, whatever your religious beliefs. Desmond Tutu,...
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Book Notes: God Is Not a Christian by Desmond Tutu: Our Salvation is of the Jews
I read God Is Not a Christian: And Other Provocations by Desmond Tutu, and it is one of the most amazing books I have read. I greatly recommend it, whatever your religious beliefs. Desmond Tutu,...
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Book Notes: God Is Not a Christian by Desmond Tutu: I Stand Here Before You
I read God Is Not a Christian: And Other Provocations by Desmond Tutu, and it is one of the most amazing books I have read. I greatly recommend it, whatever your religious beliefs. Desmond Tutu,...
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Book Notes: God Is Not a Christian by Desmond Tutu: Unbiblical, Unchristian,...
I read God Is Not a Christian: And Other Provocations by Desmond Tutu, and it is one of the most amazing books I have read. I greatly recommend it, whatever your religious beliefs. Desmond Tutu,...
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Writer’s Wednesday: God Is Not a Christian by Desmond Tutu
It took me just over a month to read God Is Not a Christian: And Other Provocations by Desmond Tutu back in February/March. Not because it’s long, it’s just over 200 pages, but because it is so...
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Not a Feminist?
*Originally written in 2011. Republished from my old blog.* Why Am I a Feminist? Because women’s work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we’re the first to get fired...
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March for Choice Rally in Dublin, Ireland
Yesterday I attended the March for Choice rally in Dublin and it was awesome! Ireland is one of very few countries in the Western world where abortion is still banned, resulting in an average of 12...
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Celebrating Gandhi
Today, 2nd of October, is Gandhi’s birthday. It’s also celebrated as a national holiday in India, and since 2007, the UN has decided that it is the International Day of Non-Violence. Though I’ve always...
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Friday’s Fabulous Female: Helen Bamber
This week’s Fabulous Female is Helen Bamber, an amazing woman who went to the Belsen concentration camp to help Holocaust survivors at merely the age of 18, and who has never stopped fighting for...
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25 Years Anniversary of Enniskillen
Today is 25 years since the IRA bombed a remembrance day parade in the small town of Enniskillen in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. Eleven people were killed, 63 injured in what would afterwards...
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RIP Savita Halappanavar – Woman Dies in Ireland After Being Refused a...
Savita Halappanavar, 31 years old, has died in Galway, Ireland, after doctors refused to perform an abortion on her. Her husband, Praveen Halappanavar (34), an engineer at Boston Scientific in Galway,...
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Writer’s Wednesday: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (Book & Movie)
Book Review Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. I wanted to read it before the movie came out (11th of January 2013 in Ireland), and just managed to do it. (I...
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On “Jokes” and Domestic Violence
So, the other day on Twitter I came across the following: Then Scarlett Johansson. RT @kkalthani: I really hope Chris Brown dates Serena Williams. — Çelebe ✨ (@Sa_WAITFORIT_ra) February 17, 2013 If...
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Writer’s Wednesday: Lipstick Jihad by Azadeh Moaveni
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran is the story of a young woman’s struggle for her identity and to find a place, where she belongs. Moaveni powerfully gives...
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Women Shouldn’t Need to be Seen in Relation to Men
Last night I saw and shared the above photo on my Facebook, commenting that women should be respected in their own right, not because of their relationship to a man. This started a bit of a discussion...
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Writer’s Wednesday: Yes Means Yes! by Jaclyn Friedman & Jessica Valenti
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape is a fantastic anthology edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti. It is groundbreaking in dismantling our beliefs around...
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Secular Sunday: Sexual Abuse & Victim Blaming in Religious Communities
TW for Sexual Abuse + Victim Blaming. I am absolutely disgusted with the hiding of sexual abuse within religious organizations and institutions, and the victim blaming. I’ll be focusing on...
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The Painful Truth by Lynn R. Webster
The Painful Truth: What Chronic Pain Is Really Like and Why It Matters to Each of Us wasn’t quite what I expected – but once I had reset my expectations I realized how important this book is. Lynn R....
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