Who is Sarah Morehead?

Once a deeply conservative and evangelical Southern Baptist, Sarah now spreads a message of empowerment and education.

From fundamentalist to feminist, as the Executive Director for the nonprofit organization "Recovering From Religion" she is responsible for developing practical resources that address the unique needs of closeted nonbelievers.

In 2013 she became the president of the secular convention "Apostacon", hosting notable scientist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, and by 2014 she was honored with the American Atheists “Atheist of the Year” award for her tireless activism. In January 2015 she was elected President of the Reason Rally Coalition, and is responsible for Reason Rally 2016 - a secular celebration of tens of thousands of nonreligious Americans on the Washington Mall in DC.

A mother of many, she speaks nationwide on the many practical and emotional challenges women face by leaving fundamentalism, even in mainstream America. In her free time, she volunteers as as a patient escort and "positive presence protester" at women's health clinics, and she delights in exploring the world alongside her partner and children."

More info...

1. Her FB page

[Pic:] "Beauty or brains?... I'll take them all thanks."

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"So many fellas nowadays forget what being a "REAL MAN" is all about. It's not about how sexy, good looking, cool or popular you are. It's not about how many women are after you or how many you have been with. It seems that society has rewritten the MAN laws. A MAN is someone who has morals...." - Gary Taylor

Not penis size, how much they don't cry, or how muscular they are...

"So many fellas nowadays forget what being a "REAL MAN" is all about. It's not about how sexy, good looking, cool or popular you are. It's not about how many women are after you or how many you have been with. It seems that society has rewritten the MAN laws. A MAN is someone who has morals. A MAN is a provider & protector at all cost. A MAN takes cares of his kids whether they were planned or not as well as taking care of his step children just as they were his own. Cuz to him, they are. A MAN puts his family first no matter what. A MAN doesn't complain about not getting to do this & do that because he has to work 50-90 hours a week to make sure his family doesn't do without. A MAN won't show weakness, not in front of anyone anyways. A MAN will take care of his woman's needs & wants no matter how tired he is. A MAN will get off of work, mow the yard, then come in, eat dinner, then help with dishes & laundry. He sure as hell won't go sit in the recliner & demand a beer. A REAL MAN will make U feel safe, wanted, & never give U a reason to doubt him in anyway. REAL MEN aren't very common nowadays but one thing is for sure, when U find one, U will never want to lose him. Because he will make U better, he will make UR life better, he will be a fucking hero in ur eyes.."

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5 Female Athletes On How They Learned To Love Their Bodies Strong = Beautiful by Alanna Vagianos

"“I was teased for looking like a boy.”

"I was taller than most of the boys when I was in elementary school."

“I didn’t fill out tank tops the right way."

These are just a few insecurities five top female athletes talk about in a new video for Cosmopolitan.com. The video features UFC fighter Jessica Eye, Olympic runners Sanya Richards-Ross and Natasha Hastings, Instagram fitness coach Massy Arias and Crossfit trainer Christmas Abbott discussing their relationships with their bodies and overcoming insecurities. "




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"Manliness is just a state of mind." - Jesse Tyler Ferguson

"Manliness is just a state of mind." - Jesse Tyler Ferguson as said on Running in the Wild with Bear Grylls

"Boys lowkey are bigger babies tan girls sometimes they love to be held and take naps in ya lap and stuff."

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Check out/ watch Miss Representation

"Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s first film Miss Representation premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film and exposed the ways in which mainstream media contributes to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence.

In response to overwhelming public demand for ongoing education and social action in support of the film’s message, Newsom founded the organization that has become The Representation Project in April 2011. A 501(c)3 non-profit organization, The Representation Project inspires individuals and communities to challenge and overcome limiting stereotypes.

While traveling the world with Miss Representation, Newsom encountered many parents and educators who thanked her for making Miss Representation, but asked, “What about our boys? Isn’t there a boy crises going on? And, how can we help our boys and men be a part of the gender equality solution?” In response, she began research and production on her second film The Mask You Live In, which premiered at Sundance in 2015.

The Mask You Live In explores how America’s narrow definition of masculinity is harming our boys, men, and society at large, while urging viewers to take action. With the release of this second film (and more to come), The Representation Project steps into a bolder agenda. One that requires all of us working together to ensure equality and justice.

As an organization, The Representation Project remains true to the message of Miss Representation that limiting stereotypes harm all of us and that women deserve a seat at the table. We take that commitment forward with us, as we tackle the biases that impact our larger society."

Check out/ watch Miss Represenation

Stop judging girls for having sex!!! by Emmanuel Matos

Stop judging girls for having sex!!!Like Emmanuel Matos

Posted by Emmanuel Matos on Tuesday, May 12, 2015

The Foreskin: Why Is It Such A Secret In North America? By Spoony Quine @ Green Med Info

"The foreskin (or prepuce) is a man's most sensitive erogenous zone, more well-developed in humans than in other species of mammal. It has unique sexual functions (more on that later), which circumcision effectively destroys -- and this is intentional:
Although foreskin-chopping was once a purely religious or cultural practice, it was introduced to American medicine in the late 1800s, as a 'cure-all', thanks to the trend of pathologizing (treating as illness) normal human sexuality and healthy genitalia.
At the time, many doctors believed that sexual stimulation and ejaculation literally drained men of their vitality and caused all manner of illnesses and mental problems. Semen was thought to take a lot of blood to make, and losing one ounce was considered the equivalent of losing a quart of blood.  Painfully severing the man or boy's most erogenous zone was recommended, and in orphanages, it was more common to sever the penile nerve as well. This was meant to traumatize and discourage him from masturbating, lest his health deteriorate from excessive ejaculations (which was diagnosed as "spermatorrhea").

Yes, really.

There were many quack remedies in the 1800s to improve men's virility and erections, and to keep them from losing semen via masturbating and nocturnal emissions. This was not considered a contradiction because a man's purpose was thought to be saving his sperm for making babies.

RE: JENNAMARBLES' "SLUT EDITION"... from Laci Green

Watch PIMP CITY A journey to the center of the sex trade

"Sex slaves are the “product” trafficked by the fastest growing illegal industry in the world. In the US, we fought wars to end slavery, but it continues, worse than ever. As authorities struggle to keep up with the explosion in sex trafficking to the U.S., Fusion takes you on a journey from America’s secret neighborhood brothels, to the remote city that trafficks more sex slave to the US, than anyplace else."

"When I was a kid...'oh she's so cute,' my mother would say,'she's also really smart'....." - Kerry Washington/ Beauty Redefined's post about telling little girls they are smart and pretty

Posted entire article on this post because facebook may delete it

"Little girls and teens who are primarily valued for how cute and pretty they are grow up to be women who struggle with their body image because they learn to evaluate themselves based on others' validation regarding their looks. That's why some of the women you think are the most ideal-looking are often the ones who feel the worst about their bodies. It's a losing game because our "ideals" are perpetually out of reach and our self-perceptions are usually distorted. Looks-based validation isn't always dependable no matter how stunning you are since our appearances change with age, babies, relationships, health and just LIVING. We have got to learn to value others and ourselves for so much more than our beauty. Yes, teach little girls to see beauty in themselves and others, but teach them that their beauty is not their currency. Their value and their power can't depend on their ever-changing outsides and our culture's ever-changing ideals! How about their talents, character, personality traits, etc.? We love how actress Kerry Washington's mom would switch the focus to Kerry's intelligence. It's harder than going straight for the surface stuff, but well worth it. Try it! "

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"My Choice" – Male Version from Youtube

Deepika Padukone – "My Choice" Directed By Homi Adajania - Vogue Empower

"My body, my mind, my choice

To wear the clothes I like; even if my spirit roams naked

My choice; to be a size 0 or a size 15

They don’t have a size for my spirit, and never will

To use cotton and silk to trap my soul is to believe that you can halt the expansion of the universe

Or capture sunlight in the palm of your hand

Your mind is caged, let it free

The Lack of Gentle Platonic Touch in Men’s Lives is a Killer by Mark Greene @ Good Men Project

"In preparing to write about the lack of gentle touch in men’s lives, I right away thought, “I feel confident I can do platonic touch, but I don’t necessarily trust other men to do it. Some guy will do something creepy. They always do.” Quickly on the heels of that thought, I wondered “Wait a minute, why do I distrust men in particular?” The little voice in my head didn’t say, “I don’t necessarily trust people to not be creepy”, it said, “I don’t trust men.”
In American culture, we believe that men can never be entirely trusted in the realm of the physical. We collectively suspect that, given the opportunity, men will collapse into the sexual at a moment’s notice. That men don’t know how to physically connect otherwise. That men can’t control themselves. That men are dogs.
There is no corresponding narrative about women.
Accordingly, it has become every man’s job to prove they can be trusted, in each and every interaction, day by day and case by case. In part, because so many men have behaved poorly. And so, we prove our trustworthiness by foregoing physical touch completely in any context in which even the slightest doubt about our intentions might arise. Which, sadly, is pretty much every context we encounter.
And where does this leave men? Physically and emotionally isolated. Cut off from the human physical contact that is proven to reduce stress, encourage self esteem and create community.
And where does this leave men? Physically and emotionally isolated. Cut off from the deeply human physical contact that is proven to reduce stress, encourage self esteem and create community. Instead, we walk in the vast crowds of our cities alone in a desert of disconnection. Starving for physical connection.

We crave touch. We are cut off from it. The result is touch isolation.

My rant about the Oragsm at the Gym Prank - by WLI

This actually kinda makes me mad even though it's a prank. Why? Because exercise releases endorphins that make us feel good. A lot of people get horny while exercising. It's actually easier and more common than a lot of people think to have an orgasm while/because of exercising and the fact she can't do her workouts without people in the comments and some of the people there in the gym with her thinking that she's there for them to jerk off to pisses me off. Mind your own dang business. Bravo to the guys that tried to not look (I can understand that it is natural to look and get um.. horny, but they respected her enough to try to focus on themselves). There is a difference between just getting um.. hard because of it because it's sometimes it's just a natural reaction and acting like a perverted ahole thinking she is there for you to jerk off about (like she is an object)

And the reverse is true as well. If a woman did this to a guy, that isn't okay either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAG_pKtQzSQ&t=71

How peple complain about saggy pants is sexist - rant by WLI

Listen I know guys walking around with their pants around their ankles is annoying, but how annoyed are we ladies when people try to tell us what WE should and shouldn't wear. How annoyed are WE when people judge us and call us hurtful things based on the way WE dress.
It goes both ways :) Women hate being judged and called a "slut" or a "whore" based on how she is dressed. Well, guys don't like to be called "stupid," "dirty," "scumbag," "loser," "nasty" or anything else based on what they wear.
Remember that.

Sex & Food are awesome and not shameful;here's why - resource list by WLI

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sj4oD7zByjbdghUSUUBYsUMkPubRh1GKWN3f35v8FF4/pub

Makeup is only for females is sexist by WLI

Saying that makeup is only a female thing is a bit sexist. It's like saying that the female gender is so ugly that they need to cover up their ugly face instead of it being something that is fun and enhances something that we (both men and female) already have.

The 3 biggest myths about pornography, debunked by Belle Knox

"Traditional mass media has failed to depict sex work and the porn industry in a non-judgmental way. With titles like The Dark Side of Porn on BBC and Porn: America’s Addiction on CNN Headline News (now HLN), television tends to depict pornography in a moralistic and sensationalistic manner, relying on illicit subject matter to titillate the viewer while hypocritically casting judgment on the industry as a whole. Small-scale independent documentaries likeLive Nude Girls Unite! are among the few pieces of traditional media that have explored sex work in a nuanced manner.

But if documentaries like Becoming Belle Knox become the new norm in a changed media landscape, the Internet might finally give us the fresh perspective on pornography that our culture so desperately needs. From the GOP’s 2012 attack on pornography in their official platform to new Christian propaganda like the bookPorndemic, conservatives are continuing to to criminalize and villainize pornography....

1) Sex work isn’t work.
"But in Becoming Belle Knox, Weeks clearly states that pornography is work. “Porn is like any other job,” she reminds us. “It’s labor.”

Like any employee working in any industry, Weeks likes parts of her job and dislikes others. On the one hand, she enjoys the clear-cut boundaries of her work. “It’s a deal,” she says, “It’s a transaction.”

2) Emotional connection and sex have to go hand in hand.
Not only do we live in a culture that still considers sex to be the emotional endpoint of a traditional romantic trajectory, we also associate women with emotion to such a degree that it seems inconceivable that a woman could have sex without intense emotional investment. Slut-shaming, in part, functions to reinforce the idea that women should only want to have sex within the confines of a romantic relationship with a man...

3) Porn performers can’t be empowered if they have emotional trauma.
In Becoming Belle Knox, Miriam Weeks is open about the fact that she has been raped—as she says, “I’m a porn star, ex-cutter, rapevictim”—but she is clear that her past experience “has nothing to do with why [she] joined porn at all.”

In fact, after her difficult past, Weeks reports that she has finally found her sexual agency in porn. The porn industry reportedly makes her feel like “a strong independent woman.”

“With porn,” Weeks argues, “everything is on my terms. I can say no whenever I want to. I can do what I want to. I can do what I don’t want to. I’m in control. I like the assertive, passionate person that I’m becoming because of porn.”

See the entire article @ slate