Trigger Warnings, Taylor Swift, and Tried + True Spiritual Practices
Our quarterly Ask-Me-Anything letter ✉️
Hey friends! Just a reminder that we had a last-minute cancellation for our New Feminism Pilgrimage and still have one spot left for our trip to Poland this October. Sign up here!
Last week, I opened up an Ask-Me-Anything for your questions to build this week’s newsletter. I got a whole bunch of thoughtful, creative questions, and I really wish I could answer every single one, but I’m going to be doing these AMA issues quarterly, so there will be plenty of future opportunities to get a question in!
AMA disclaimers: Some of the questions were repeats/long and personal, so I’m paraphrasing a few of them. If I “summed up” your question, please don’t take offense. Furthermore, as I grow in my faith + personhood + feminism + motherhood + alllll that jazz, I’m really starting to see just how much I value open dialogue. I think the fact that we have such a hard time having conversations with one another is one of the critical breaking points of our society, especially in America— “land of the free”, etc. So here’s what I want to say: you and I can disagree and you are welcome here. You and I can hurt each other’s feelings and you are welcome here. You and I can have very different beliefs and you are welcome here. The only things I don’t tolerate are you telling someone else they aren’t welcome here, or you deciding to radically blaspheme the Holy Spirit or something. K? Let’s pray for each other and assume best intentions as we wrestle with tricky topics. Conflict is what happens when thinking people gather. Also, I heard a homily on the first Catholic Feminist pilgrimage where the priest kind of shrugged and said “and if this is all wrong, please chalk it up to me being young and just pray for me.” So…ditto!