Posts tagged ‘beauty standards’

bearded women

A few weeks ago, performance artist Little Bear the Bearded Lady shared with the world that she no longer identifies as genderqueer, but as a cis…

girls deserve more than ‘you’re beautiful’

by Tinesha Girls and women get bombarded with unrealistic standards of beauty in media every day. These ideals of beauty are highly unrealistic of course,…

A Skeptic’s Prayer, by Margaret Munk

Is it true
Thou lovest best
Thy meek, unasking children?

Thou hast made us
So diverse, so various,
Yet in the image
Of a Sire
Who filled a universe
With his creative fire.

What father has supposed
His child would grow to manhood
Only hearing and affirming?
What sire could honor such a son?
How could a mind that,
Like a sponge,
Absorbs but never questions,
Doubts,
Or wonders why
Be offspring and apprentice
To a God?

It may be, Lord,
That thou canst never love me
With the calm relief
A father feels
For his obedient child—
The one who’s never any trouble.

But use me
As a bridge
To those more wayward still
Than I.
I cannot give them all the answers;
But they will not ask
The ones who think they can.

Let me speak
To thy lost sheep
As one who,
Understanding how they went astray,
Still loves the Shepherd.