/tags/quakers/ Recent content in Quakers on Clark Seanor Hugo -- gohugo.io en Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:34:48 +0100 /posts/transferring-quiet-faith-loud-opinions/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:34:48 +0100 /posts/transferring-quiet-faith-loud-opinions/ This is just a quick update to say that I’ve transferred the posts that used to exist at the blog Quiet Faith, Loud Opinions to this website. (In fact, I will be setting the redirects to this website up shortly after I make this post.) I’ve primarily done this because it was getting frustrating to feel the need to maintain multiple online personas and not really give any of them due attention. /posts/sex-matters-to-quakers-religious-transphobic-hate/ Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:28:48 +0000 /posts/sex-matters-to-quakers-religious-transphobic-hate/ If you go on X, one of many accounts you’ll find screaming into the void about trans people is operated by Sex Matters to Quakers. Sex Matters to Quakers self-describes as “an informal group of Friends” which first attempted to gain official recognition by Britain Yearly Meeting (the encompassing body of all Quaker meetings in Britain) in 2021. They regularly make statements on social media that I would personally characterise as both transphobic and hateful. /posts/body-problems-by-m-wolff/ Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:16:23 +0100 /posts/body-problems-by-m-wolff/ I really liked Body Problems: What Intersex Priest Sally Gross Teaches Us About Embodiment, Justice, and Belonging by M. Wolff. I read it for the first time in early September, and I left a short review on StoryGraph at the time in part to record my immediate thoughts and in part because I thought that leaving a review might help other people to find the book. It was a sacrifice to the almighty algorithm. /posts/hatred-by-berit-brogaard/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 17:52:16 +0100 /posts/hatred-by-berit-brogaard/ Content note: in this review, I discuss transphobia, transmisogyny, suicide, racism, and sexual assault. In her 2020 book Hatred: Understanding our Most Dangerous Emotion, Berit Brogaard presents a complex but not comprehensive analysis of the emotion of hatred. The book argues for a number of different points, but not in a way that I find particularly compelling or convincing. Brogaard makes three core arguments: Hatred can come in dehumanising and critical forms, and the critical form of hatred should be fostered because it reinforces social norms while the dehumanising form of hatred should be avoided.