Upcoming Substack Live Conversations with Fellow Authors
We'll be talking about how misogyny influences the purity culture, parenting, and motherhood. Please tune in!
In the next few weeks, I’ll be having conversations with three authors whose books intersect with mine.
Tuesday, May 26th, Anna Rollins, author of Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing up as a Good Girl and I will talk about the many ways misogyny shows up in the diet and purity cultures. This includes unrealistic beauty standards, denying our bodies’ messages, and objectification. Anna’s book is incredibly vulnerable and insightful.
Next week, on June 1, at 12:00 EST, Marissa Franks Burt (who wrote The Myth of Good Christian Parenting with Kelsey Kramer McGinnis) will join me to discuss how some streams of theology make Christian families vulnerable to misogyny and abuse. We see this in how certain church cultures foster male sexual entitlement, default to authoritarianism, and place enormous pressure on women to be perfect parents.
Finally, on June 11, Elizabeth Berget will join me to talk about the intersectionality of misogyny with her new book Love Like a Mother: How the Sacred Work of Motherhood Reveals the Maternal Heart of God. Topics will include why we resist acknowledging God’s maternal nature and how that diminishes our faith, how empathy reveals God’s heart for us, and more. I just finished Bergets’ book and very much appreciated her insights.
We will attempt to keep each conversation to 30ish minutes. You do need to download the Substack app to listen. The conversations will be transcribed and then posted here 24-48 hours after the live event. I will be giving away a few books to folks who show up. I am confident each conversation will be worth your time.