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http://asksistermarymartha.blogspot.com/2008/04/fun-with-jesus.html

Why do we feel the need to make Jesus cute, or our pal? I have a hunch about why. The things He had to say were radical, often offensive, to the people to which He was speaking. The things He asked us to do are just about impossibly difficult. Love your enemies.

&e recommends just going ahead and reading this blog…
http://myecdysis.blogspot.com/2008/04/accepting-kyriarchy-not-apologies.html

Let me break this down for you. When people talk about patriarchy and then it divulges into a complex conversation about the shifting circles of privilege, power, and domination — they’re talking about kyriarchy. When you talk about power assertion of a White woman over a Brown man, that’s kyriarchy. When you talk about a Black man dominating a Brown womyn, that’s kyriarchy. It’s about the human tendency for everyone trying to take the role of lord/master within a pyramid.

http://myecdysis.blogspot.com/2008/04/apparently-feminists-need-acting.html

One of my favorite students ran into my office today and dramatically collapsed on my couch. Before I even asked what was on her mind, she sat up and shared her wisdom, “Do you know what my acting coach told me today? She said, ‘Listening means having your life changed.’”

http://fetchmemyaxe.blogspot.com/2008/04/yes-and.html

This is just sort of a general rumination on what some people call “constructive discourse/action.”

In improv theatre, or certain acting exercises in regular theatre, we used to have this trope called “Yes, and.”

some days I hate my country as much as the next one…
http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/28/fetuslove-canadian-style/

Anyway, what’s got LEAFer Bonnie Gembey’s oysters in a pot is a bill working its way through Parliament, Bill C-484. This bill would grant legal personhood to — say it with me — fetuses. The sentimentally-titled “Unborn Victims of Crime Act” would allow authorities to press additional, more bad-ass charges if a fetus (the “unborn child”) is aborted concurrent with a violent crime perpetrated against a woman (the “mother”).

I figure I might as well follow my tracks around the blogosphere. I haven’t got the nerve to comment places; I don’t know why. I’m really vocal on LJ. Ah, well. If I can’t speak, I can link. Right?