jane. 25. femme lesbian. leftist. grad student studying theology and relating it to trans/gender theory.
dammit-marcella is my academic sideblog. icon by muggertime.
christian thought in its original form is about defending and sympathizing with the most powerless members of our society and i think its one of the greatest tragedies in human history that something like that was so thoroughly corrupted and weaponized by the very people it was supposed to fight against
I think my favorite little recurring moment with my gf this past weekend was when I’d do something small and bratty and she would just be like “god every fucking little brat I date does that” and I would feel like a successor to a long and accomplished line of brats
The thing that always gets me is how we still frame the idea of trying to be a good caring person as a huge laborious inconvenientinherent sacrifice instead of deeply comforting and rewarding and beneficial to one’s own self and a fundamental human need. Like joke really is on us, the loneliness of modern life is not mysterious.