I know I’ve done a bit of rabble-rousing with my last few posts, but this is another one that was spurred by the ethnography I recently read about Mormonism. Â In it, the author talks about how Mormon parents think about their kids in discussing the life trajectory of Mormons as…
It was really enjoyable to work my way through this. This is the first response I’ve done with these new church essays since I had read enough to be able to notice things that I recognized were missing, or implications that were being made that felt incomplete or inaccurate. As…
“A culture of domination is anti-love,” black feminist philosopher bell hooks wrote. Without love, she warned, those fighting one form of domination—imperialism, sexism, racism, classism—would find themselves in service to another. Too many Mormons go one further. They invoke love in the service of domination. Hooks died this month, and…
That is a pretty weird video. What’s with the cat vomiting (blood?) on her face…?
A white pussycat whose mouth spews blood that contaminates another woman? Seemed sorta obvious to me, especially with the snake thrown in….
Oh, OK, I get it now. lol. Just goes to show, no matter how unsubtle you think your metaphor may be, sometimes it’s still too cryptic for some of your audience. 😉
Cool! Do you know if this artist has an actual connection with polygamy?
Don’t think there is a polygamy connection. She’s from Michigan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Winston
That is a pretty weird video. What’s with the cat vomiting (blood?) on her face…?
A white pussycat whose mouth spews blood that contaminates another woman? Seemed sorta obvious to me, especially with the snake thrown in….
Oh, OK, I get it now. lol. Just goes to show, no matter how unsubtle you think your metaphor may be, sometimes it’s still too cryptic for some of your audience. 😉