It will take the longest days and the sleeplessness, and it will take the anger and misunderstanding and the exile and the loneliness. It will take you making it through this.
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All posts tagged “Relationships”
“So, what are you two, like roommates?”
Zora Ada and I had an uncomfortable Lyft ride this summer. We were headed home well after midnight, weary from a long series of flights. A middle-aged white man picked us up at the baggage claim, and he and Ada exchanged the usual post-airport pleasantries.… Read More
Crafting the Statement on God’s Justice: Why Not Us?
It’s been a week now since the release of the Statement on God’s Justice. Over 1,000 signatures later, I ask myself what the Statement has meant and what it will mean.
Ada Got Published: Searching for Hope Through a Mother-Daughter Story
I had worried that as the sole Christian in my family, my coming out to my mother would hurt what Christians call my “witness”: the theology I live to demonstrate to others who God is. How can you be a Christian, she asked me then, if you are gay?
Learning the Long Way to Love Your Queer Self
There’s a prevailing Western notion that it’s only by loving yourself that you learn to love others. But self-love – and self-love first and foremost – can seem unattainable for many of us, and especially anyone who struggles with shame.
Why Did I Say “I Do”?
So, in the face of all opposition, why did I decide to get married?
Insidious Heteronormativity & How YOU Can Stop It!
Zora Now that Pride month is over in the U.S. (boo!), all our favorite stores are back on their cis-/heteronormative sales train. Yesterday I passed by some coffee mugs branded with, “Soon To Be Her Mr.” and “Soon To Be His Mrs.” (I’m a Maxxinista… Read More
