Interfaith Blasphemy Activist Spirituality

  • Invisible Labour, Bodies that Refuse

    From a young age, I was taught when and how to speak. While some of this shaped manners and respect, much of it was rooted in gender expectations. Softness was praised; assertiveness, even when justified,… Read more

  • Prayer with hair

    Nora gives sermon on women’s hair, a controversial and politicised topic for the early Christians, and about the women in Northern Syria who have been fighting to defend the monumental achievements of the women’s revolution… Read more

  • Bad Apple Aporia

    Henry_ discusses the kind of thinking, writing and activism that goes on at Bad Apple collective. Dialectics can be painful. At the same time, ‘dialectic‘ sounds like such a safe word, confined to school, university,… Read more

  • Bad Apple Twelve

    Get ready for… Bad Apple Twelve! Follow our contributors as they knock on neighbours’ doors, close doors to fascists, roam churches with bodies that are prayers, explore religious dating apps and draw from their faith… Read more

  • Something has Happened

    These collages draw on the Catholic iconography of my childhood, in tension with my current practice of Islam.’ Read more

  • An Ovarian Soufflé

    Again, I’m open as Pandora’s eyes (at the thighs). Read more

  • Full Surrogacy Now

    Whatever your relationship to reproduction – not everyone has a functioning womb, not everyone is a birthing mother – Lewis’ discussion of surrogacy is an important guide to some key feminist questions. Read more

  • Deviant Saints 2

    In 3rd century Carthage (modern day Tunisia), the noble Perpetua and the enslaved Felicity found kinship in a Roman prison. They had both been sentenced to death in the arena for their refusal to denounce… Read more

  • Deviant Saints 1

    14th century Portuguese princess, Wilgefortis, prayed for deliverance from a forced marriage, which would break her virginal vow of celibacy to God. She miraculously grew a beard, her arranged suitor found this unacceptable and called… Read more

  • Radical Kinship

    Rewilding is definitely a thing. Sometimes one suspects a touch of nimbyism. Reclaim the land for nature….keep the developers out. This one felt different; it was rooted in the soil. The starting point a composting… Read more

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