Category: Feminism

“Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression,” was written by bell hooks in her book called Feminism is For Everybody. She elaborates on the question regarding the definition of feminism. “What is feminism?” has been a question that many have answered, yet many answer from their own perspective. Feminism takes into…
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What a pleasure it is to be at this Table, WOC’s online community. Last week on this blog, Jane Malhotra shared about her experience during a September pilgrimage to Our Lady of Guadalupe with Discerning Deacons. This week, I’ll share some of my experience of the same pilgrimage, and next week the two of us…
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“What difference would it make?” Professor Emerita Ross S. Kraemer asked this question both before and after presenting her analysis of women’s authorship in Jewish and Christian literature in the Greco-Roman period (ca 400 BCE to 400 CE) on September 20 as part of FutureChurch’s Women Erased series. Since hard evidence supporting women’s authorship is…
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Often, when I prepare dinner for friends or for the family gathered for a special occasion, I become conscious of the sacredness of the meal, especially when it is attentively prepared and genially shared. I also become aware that the spaces in which it is prepared and in which it is served have become sacred.…
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“Unless you have a good reason to believe they were not there, put them there!” Dr. Amy-Jill Levine issued this charge to us in her marvelous contribution to FutureChurch’s Women Erased series with a presentation titled, “Women in 2nd Temple Judaism.” She was referring to the missing women of the Bible, specifically in the New…
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Sometimes when science and art and the work of everyday life intersect within a single subject, the results can be enlightening, revelatory, and even breathtaking. For me, it started with a morsel from everyday life described in one of July’s Earthbeat posts. It was the title which first captivated me: “Oblivion and Salvation in the…
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Feminist and LGBTQ Twitter was a-buzz the last few weeks with conversations about a new modern adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Fire Island (rated R) is based on the real-life setting of Fire Island (an island near Long Island, NY) that is home to two LGBTQ-centric resorts, Fire Island Pines is a gay…
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This is it: No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. Fifty years ago, this brief provision was inserted into the education law of the United…
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The January 6 hearings are what’s preoccupying me this week. They raise as many moral issues as anything else, but I don’t want to write about all that. Rather, I will call your attention to expanded dimensions of what will preoccupy us sometime soon: what does it mean to protect life, especially from the perspective…
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Anne Applebaum is a Pulitzer Prize winning historian and journalist at The Atlantic. Ezra Klein is an American journalist, political analyst, New York Times columnist, and the host of “The Ezra Klein Show” podcast. I offer you excerpts from Klein’s May 17 interview with Applebaum as she and he discussed Hannah Arendt’s 1951 classic The…
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