HeyJaredGod Made Me Gay with Mike Maeshiro
Tables have to be flipped, privilege has to be checked. Queerness, spirituality and finding language for the unsaid things.
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The Bathroom Reeks of Failure (opens the original)
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I was a sensitive kid and I knew it before I had language for it. Sensitive in that I was picking up on the emotional atmosphere I was in, all the time, whether I wanted to or not. When the other boys killed animals, I felt it somewhere in my body, a sick, sinking weight that I couldn’t explain and didn’t know what to do with. When someone got left out of something, I noticed it before anyone else did. I felt the rejection on their behalf and my heart would break for them. I didn’t choose to fee
Mom, Are We Zionists? (opens the original)
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“I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse;and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”-Genesis 12:3At every church I was part of, the pastor preached to the congregation that we, the 21st Century Evangelical Church, were modern day Israel. The blessings and warnings given to the ancient kingdom of Israel in the Bible applied to us, the spiritual Israel. The formation of the nation-state Israel is viewed as biblical prophecy fulfilled, Christians today are b
I Called Out His Bad Allyship. Then He Asked For My Number. (opens the original)
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A follower sent me a video a while back thinking I’d love it like they did. A pastor was on camera, banging on a metal sign he’d bolted to the wall outside his church. The sign had a pride flag on it and read “Safe Zone.” Apparently someone had torn down the previous signs, so he’d replaced them with something harder to remove.I like this. I thought. This pastor is taking a stand, holding space for the queer community. Then he kept talking.“We want the entire community to know that they’re safe
Leviticus, Gay Horror (opens the original)
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When you watch a movie and the characters and plot linger in your mind days later, you know it was a good one. That was my experience with a new gay, horror movie called Leviticus. The film takes religious homophobia, the logic behind conversion “therapy” and the terror of the closet and turns them into a literal nightmare. The premise of the film is two teenage boys, Naim and Ryan, discover their attraction to each other in a small conservative community, and the horror of the movie grows out o
Water Bending, MAGA and the Myth of Personal Responsibility (opens the original)
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“Do you want to watch Avatar: The Last Airbender with me?” Zach asked with a twinkle in his eyes. “It’s one of the best cartoons ever.”“It’s a cartoon?!” I couldn’t hide my surprise and aversion. “Is it for kids?”“...yes.” He replied reluctantly. “But the story is actually really good and the characters are super cool.”I had known it was his favorite cartoon growing up. I had never anticipated watching it myself. I also knew this was a bid for connection from him that meant a lot. I had
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