Unqualified lesbian. Former Executive Director @feministing, current Media Relations Director @afsc_org and these twitterings are my own. Avatar by @30_Helens
Jul 19, 2018 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Part of why the red scare and "it's a distraction" reactions to Trump and Putin are so personally disturbing to me is that this unholy alliance between the US and Russia has been my nightmare for a long time because of my own #EmptyThePews story.
I grew up in a cult that sat right at the intersection of US Evangelicalism and Russian Orthodoxy.
The Russian church was attractive to American fundamentalists in part because of its active engagement with social issues - in other words, united by the so-called culture wars.
Jan 18, 2017 • 25 tweets • 3 min read
Because the world is a sad place & I need some nerding: here's a thread about the man Hans Christian Andersen fell in love with.
According to his own journals HCA was a virgin by choice, but he had infatuations, the strongest for Edvard Collin the son of his benefactor
