“Without justice, there can be no peace.” —Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.
About Warren Blumenfeld
Warren J. Blumenfeld is associate professor in the School of Education at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. He is author of Warren’s Words: Smart Commentary on Social Justice (Purple Press); editor of Homophobia: How We All Pay the Price (Beacon Press), and co-editor of Readings for Diversity and Social Justice (Routledge) and Investigating Christian Privilege and Religious Oppression in the United States (Sense).
Boy Scouts of America: The Good, the Bad, and the (Still) Highly Discriminatory
June 5, 2013 by 4 Comments
Republican and Catholic Rebranding Isn’t Enough
April 11, 2013 by 43 Comments
Republicans and Catholics will fail if they simply put new faces on old ideas.
You Were Great, Professor. But You’re Still Going to Hell.
March 19, 2013 by 36 Comments
Professor Warren Blumenfeld recently retired from Iowa State University. Here he reflects on how orthodoxy inhibited education.
Intersectionality: Challenging Though Essential for Liberation
March 17, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Warren Blumenfeld with a personal essay on where our social identities come from and how we live with them.
Deconstructing the Disease Model of Homosexuality
December 29, 2012 by 1 Comment
Professor Warren Blumenfeld’s fight for equality spans over 40 years. Here’s a glimpse into May 1971.
The Insanity of Our Gun Culture
December 15, 2012 by 65 Comments
The word “insanity” gets thrown around during tragedies, but Professor Warren Blumenfeld (and many others) believe it goes far beyond the individual.
The Cold Quilt: How Going State-by-State Deprives Same-Sex Couples
December 9, 2012 by 3 Comments
Professor Warren Blumenfeld believes the Feds should step in and that history shows why.
The (Christian) Month of December
November 23, 2012 by 6 Comments
Professor Warren Blumenfeld sees the privileged few and an excluded many during the “Holiday Season.”
Incentivizing Violence: When Will the Insanity End!?
November 13, 2012 by 37 Comments
Professor Warren Blumenfeld’s manifesto on gun promotion and the (im)possibility of gun control
Women and LGBT People Under Attack: 1930′s & Now
November 3, 2012 by 2 Comments
Professor Warren Blumenfeld sees parallels between the German Third Reich and the inequalities of today
Reflections of a U.S. Jew in Poland
October 29, 2012 by 1 Comment
Professor Warren Blumenfeld writes of how the dynamic and palpable tension of history still exists today
“My ex-wife knew, on some level, that I was gay, at the time we got married. We both were in such denial.”
This is a comment by on the post “Coming Out To Your Wife”.