ABSTRACT
My earliest childhood experiences were shaped by fundamentalist Christian beliefs. As much as anything else, they framed what girls could or could not do. For instance, on Sunday girls couldn’t wear pants, we couldn’t play music, and we couldn’t walk across the pulpit. The pulpit was considered a sacred space that a female—of any age—could not walk across, because she would defile it. In church between Sunday school and the morning service, I’d see all these boys running around and crossing the pulpit, but girls were always stopped. It was an early indoctrination into sexist thinking.
