I know I am supposed to be on a spiritual path, but the path that Jehovah’s Witness has me on does not feel liberating or purposeful—beyond the purpose of shaming and scaring us. It doesn’t provide me the feeling of connection and spirit I feel reading Audre Lorde, whose books I carry with me everywhere. Where I can find no center for myself in the Bible, what with its anti-woman origin story, I can when I read the essays in Audre’s Sister Outsider. I am changing, my whole life is changing, and for all the parts that feel terrifying and hard, there are other parts, many of them, that feel
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