Trish Hooper’s Last Words
KtB has had a spate of submissions regarding illness and death lately, and autumn has only just begun. In today’s piece, “Letting Gravity Win,” KtB editor Meera Subramanian reminds us that “we are all...
View ArticleToday Needs Another Name
“They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance … They would make fine servants … With 50 men we could subjugate...
View ArticleWhy Not Share?
Since Mary Valle’s digging through her archive, I’ll post something from my own: a workbook page from Youth for Christ’s DC ’91 “Congress on Youth Evangelism,” the occasion of my first visit to the...
View ArticleCharismata and The Big Donut
Unemployment calls for desperate measures, and last week I was asked, in an application packet, to list not only my natural gifts and talents, but also, under a separate heading, to list my spiritual...
View ArticleNerdjacking Old Glory
Father’s Day, and I awoke with the memory of a certain Cub Scout campout, dad and lad, ca. 2006. This was at the height of the gay scoutmaster controversy, and I was already fed up with the BSA,...
View ArticleDamned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t
Though I received a review copy sometime around the world premiere in February 2011, I have for months neglected to write about New Spirits, Heave-Ho Productions’ feature length documentary following...
View ArticleCowboy for Christ
An excerpt from Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith. Read more for just $4.99. I came of age as a God-fearing transgendered horse wrangler, which is not as surprising as...
View ArticleAgainst Literary Transphobia
An early writing mentor told me once that sharing my story will save lives. I believe in the power of words to save lives, but the flipside is their power to harm. And I can’t overstate the harm...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to The Antioch Review
Dear Antioch Review, In your May 5th statement regarding the essay, “The Sacred Androgen: The Transgender Debate” by Daniel Harris, you celebrate an admittedly “deeply offensive” essay for “stirring...
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