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The Medieval Prophetess Who Used Her Visions to Criticize the Church

By Hadley Meares — 2016

Hildegard of Bingen fought the patriarchy from her cloister.

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Their Time

After generations in the shadows, the intersex rights movement has a message for the world: We aren’t disordered and we aren’t ashamed.

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Nora Caplan-Bricker
2017
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Why Do So Many Gay and Bisexual Men Struggle With Body Image?

What began as a proud assertion of identity has itself become a trope; the stereotype of a gay man now is one who goes to the gym and takes care of himself.

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Philip Ellis
2019
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The Road to Diversity

In this 2011 Buddhadharma Forum, Larry Yang, Amanda Rivera, Bob Agoglia, and Rev. angel Kyodo williams discuss how to foster meaningful diversity in American Buddhism.

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Lion's Roar
2011
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Beyond ‘He’ or ‘She’: The Changing Meaning of Gender and Sexuality

Hyperindividual, you-do-you young people from across the U.S. are upending the convention that when it comes to gender and sexuality, there are only two options for each: male or female, gay or straight.

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Katy Steinmetz
2017
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Was Jesus Gay? Probably.

I preached on Good Friday that Jesus’s intimacy with John suggested he was gay as I felt deeply it had to be addressed.

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Paul Oestreicher
2021
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How Rachel Held Evans Became the Most Polarizing Woman in Evangelicalism

Talk to an evangelical today and bring up popular author Rachel Held Evans. Chances are, that evangelical will either love or hate her writing. Nearly everyone seems to have an opinion about the 33-year-old woman dubbed “RHE” who has become so polarizing in the past decade.

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Sarah Pulliam Bailey
2015
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Rachel Held Evans, Hero to Christian Misfits

The firebrand writer died unexpectedly over the weekend at the age of 37.

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Emma Green
2019
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Keeping Faith: Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, and Spirituality

Many of us are raised to follow a particular religion, and many of those religions have some negative messages about sexual and gender diversity.

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Laura Turnbull, RPsych
2017
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How Spirit Mediums Blur Gender Lines in Southeast Asia

Having documented transgender communities for more than 30 years, photographer Mariette Pathy Allen is accustomed to working with those facing stigma and abuse. But the subjects of her latest book represented an altogether different experience.

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Oscar Holland
2020
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