Southerners have mastered picking, choosing, and rationalizing religious texts to fit their social agenda better than their own mother’s fried chicken recipe.

Incarceration is when nobody writes a happy ending for a woman without a man.

We were sexual targets, marked as eternal sluts for exploring the desires only acceptable in men.

Children are often like hostages under the care of authority, with spankings and groundings nudging them like guns pointed at their skulls, threatening to shoot if the wrong words are uttered.