A Pink Sweater & the Apocalypse

It’s not so much that I’m planning to wear a pink sweater when the apocalypse comes (maybe I will, maybe I won’t), but that I want to share the most recent articles I’ve written elsewhere.

Pink sweater pants, a pink sweater — it was a whole thing. I wrote about it for Racked.

Bustle
How I Rewired My Brain With Poetry
Science and literature and neural pathways and Rumi and Emily Dickinson.

Racked
I Was a Strict Evangelical, Until My Faith Unraveled
The pink sweater my grandmother once knit for me is a reminder of who I used to be.

The Millions
Apocalypse Then: Meet the Original Rapture Novels
Whether I believed the Antichrist would actually posses a ruby laser ring, I definitely believed the Antichrist would show up and have lots of tricks up his sleeve.

BuzzFeed
I Was a Fundamentalist Christian Until I Discovered Feminist Writers
Leaving religion behind wasn’t easy. Books helped. So did Brooke Shields.

The Hairpin
The Best Time I Went to Christian Charm School
It was sort of like home ec meets the apocalypse and included instructions about how to style our hair and how to not “usurp the role of the male.”

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