This Pastor Is Melting Purity Rings Into A Golden Vagina Sculpture

[ehrnst]

Christian author Nadia Bolz-Weber plans to create something beautiful out of the rings once used to pledge abstinence.

In certain evangelical Christian circles, the rings were given to young girls as symbols of a pledge they made to abstain from sex until marriage. But the rings ― and more broadly, the Christian purity culture of the 1990s and 2000s ― also shamed young girls into disconnecting from their bodies, Bolz-Weber argues.

With the help of artist Nancy Anderson, Bolz-Weber said she plans to melt down the rings that people send her and recast them as a “golden vagina.” She said that the project ― part of a promotion for Shameless, her upcoming book about sex and Christianity ― is about “reclamation” of women’s bodies.

“This thing about women that the church has tried to hide and control and that is a canvas on which other people can write their own righteousness ― it’s actually ours,” Bolz-Weber told HuffPost. “This part of me is mine and I get to determine what is good for it and if it’s beautiful and how I use it in the world.”
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The idea is to tell former purity ring wearers that they are holy because of the life that God has breathed into them, the pastor said, and that this holiness isn’t something that can be taken away by another human being.

“To me, to be able to have the self-determination to take symbols and words and actions that might have harmed me at a different time in life and to reclaim and redefine and rework those into something healing and humorous ― that’s a powerful thing,” she said.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nadia-bolz-weber-purity-ring-vagina-sculpture_us_5bfdac5ee4b0a46950dce000?l&fbclid=IwAR1YCx3h-pqLiw1mQWM876YTF0M2I2sQavIJ3-OSOfDEzXtrtOjnE3jmXFI

[violetpastille]

1. This kind of reminds me of that old site "Things White People Like"

#104 Hummus that has chunky bits in it.


#105 Performative Wokeness.

It's kind of dopey. But a sweetly dopey symbolism is better than a creepy, incestuous symbolism. So yay. (But I can think of a zillion causes I'd rather spend that money on.)

[irisblue]

6. I had forgotten that website. But there is now a twitter feed with that name. 🤦

[irisblue]

2. I really hope that the difference between a vulva and a vagina is clear.

Too many ppl don't know there is a difference.

[violetpastille]

3. +1

A golden vagina sculpture would have more practical uses.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

11. oops, I missed giving the 5th rec. Here's 6

[Hortensis]

9. Just as long as they understand the functions

of the clitoris.

[Kaleva]

4. Doesn't she mean vulva instead of vagina?

[Hekate]

5. The Goddess Lives. Just hope this pastor doesn't run into witch-burners. nt

[Loki Liesmith]

7. Everybody needs a hobby

[Kaleva]

8. I can imagine Trump will want it. To go with his gold toilet and those times Melana won't....

[Loki Liesmith]

10. He wouldn't know what to do with it

Aside from brag about it.