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      Phoning It In: (Re)making Race and Religion in Zora Neale Hurston’s New Orleans Underworld
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      ‘Remigration’ is American for ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
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      Since You’ve Been Gone: The Politics of Hysterectomy and the Impossibility of ‘Choice’
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      Capitalism’s Violence calls for Collective Wrath, not Luigi Mangione’s Privatized Rage
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      ‘Remigration’ is American for ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
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      The Billionaires Selling School Vouchers to Buy the Soul of a Nation
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      ‘Remigration’ is American for ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
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      Capitalism’s Violence calls for Collective Wrath, not Luigi Mangione’s Privatized Rage
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Megan Goodwin

Megan Goodwin is senior editor for Religion Dispatches, nerd-in-chief at Feral Nerd Consulting, and media & tech consultant for The Crossroads Project. Goodwin is the author of Abusing Religion: Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions (Rutgers 2020). With Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, she cohosts Keeping It 101: A Killjoy’s Introduction to Religion Podcast; their first co-authored book, Religion Is Not Done With You, is now available through Beacon Press. Her next project is tentatively entitled Cults Incorporated: The Business of Bad Religion. Find her on twitter @mpgPhD or bluesky @mpgphd.bsky.social.

Zora Neale Hurston portrait overlayed on Storyville illustration
Archive, Books, New Books, Racial Justice, Sexuality/GenderMay 29, 2025

Phoning It In: (Re)making Race and Religion in Zora Neale Hurston’s New Orleans Underworld

By Megan Goodwin

Welcome to “Phoning It In,” a gameshow I made up because I am tired and…

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Eddie Africa addressing a crowd in front of MOVE headquarters (March 1978)
Archive, Politics/Law, Racial Justice, Religious LibertyMay 13, 2025

Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents

By Megan Goodwin

Forty years ago today, the city of Philadelphia dropped a bomb on itself. The city…

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Leo XIV
Archive, Authoritarianism, Immigration, Racial Justice, Sex/Gender/Justice, Sexuality/GenderMay 8, 2025

HABEMUS PAPAM: New Pope Selection Signals Church’s Concerns about Spread of US, Global Authoritarianism

By Megan Goodwin

White smoke emerged over the Sistine Chapel this afternoon, notifying the world that the College…

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Graffiti on a wall in Lisbon depicting a priest chasing two children, denouncing the child abuse scandal that rocked the catholic church
Archive, OMFG, Politics/LawMay 8, 2025

New WA Mandatory Reporter Law Is Only Anti-Catholic if ‘Catholic’ Means Protecting Sexual Predators

By Megan Goodwin

In our latest installment of “somehow this is actually happening,” Trump’s DOJ announced this week—with…

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Annie the Conjure woman
Archive, Culture, Media Analysis, OMFG, Racial JusticeApril 24, 2025

“I Don’t Do Horror, Ryan Coogler” — Black Magic’s Dr. Yvonne Chireau on Sinners and Bringing Hoodoo to Life

By Megan Goodwin

It was my absolute pleasure to chat with Dr. Yvonne Chireau, author of the iconic…

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back of pope francis' head
Archive, Israel-Palestine, Reproductive Justice, Russia Invades Ukraine, Sex/Gender/Justice, Sexuality/GenderApril 21, 2025

Francis, the Roman Catholic Church’s First Latin American Pope, Leaves Behind a Complicated Legacy

By Megan Goodwin

As you probably know by now, Pope Francis has died. (Mere hours after meeting with—how…

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Archive, OMFG, Politics/Law, Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeMarch 28, 2025

What the Hell? Utah Passes Anti Ritual Abuse Bill Despite Ritual Abuse Not Actually Existing

By Megan Goodwin

So Utah passed a bill designed to “address” ritual abuse this week. That is a…

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protest sign: let's talk about the elephant in the womb
Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Reproductive Justice, Sex/Gender/Justice, Sexuality/GenderMarch 12, 2025

Trump’s Pick for FDA Commissioner Hedges on the Abortion Pill, which is safer than Tylenol, Viagra, or giving birth

By Megan Goodwin

During his confirmation hearing last Thursday, Trump nominee Dr. Marty Makary equivocated on whether Americans…

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Archive, Books, Culture, OMFG, Sex/Gender/JusticeFebruary 21, 2025

‘Clever Girl’ Explains Why Dinosaurs are Queer and Feminist — and Jurassic Park is a Toolkit for the Apocalypse

By Megan Goodwin

Everything happens so much these days, and so very much of it is very bad…

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Archive, Election 2024, OMFG, Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeJanuary 21, 2025

Before Leaving Office Biden Announced the ERA Should Already Be 28th Amendment — If it is, Could it Be Used to Protect Trans People?

By Megan Goodwin

Although it has since been removed from the White House website, on Friday afternoon, with…

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