Category: Feminism

[Editor’s Note: While our blogger Ellie is away on a much-deserved vacation, we’ll be hearing from some other voices on Tuesdays. Today, in honor of Pride Month, is the Pride poem written by our staff member, Katie!]

Do we have the potential of taking up too much space, we women and other-gendered? Are they afraid we would crowd them out or hem them in with the weight of our untapped wisdom?  The volume of our unheard words?  The massiveness of our ignored resources? The expansiveness of the fresh perspectives and renewed spirit…
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I raised my children with carrots only, no sticks. It’s not that I was so patient, kind, and lofty. I simply could not physically – or, a bit less successfully, emotionally – hurt someone. I was also a devotee of Dr. Spock’s assertion that hitting a child teaches the child that when you’re angry, hit.…
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No matter what gender you are, how do you react to that statement? Much to the surprise of my female colleagues reading this statement with me for the first time, I found it insulting, supercilious, and patronizing. (They thought it was more or less true!) I, however, had immediately thought of Mary, mother of Jesus,…
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The Anti-Oppression Team is responsible for developing strategies that deepen WOC’s commitment to full inclusivity and equity within the structure of WOC itself and in the Roman Catholic Church. WOC values diverse identities, genders, and ministries as we strive to create a church and society where everyone is free to respond to God’s call without…
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Just as spring brings us a fresh – and exhilarant – experience of the world and newly minted lenses through which we can see more deeply and fully into lives and landscapes around us, I propose we also try out new lenses to see ourselves and our own mission for inclusion and ministry in a…
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“Am I able to trust that the tombs of my life are all gateways to resurrection?”                                                                                      – Sr. Joan Chittister The silence after Easter seems so different from the silence of Lent. We have just been through a terrible and magnificent drama. We have been through a period of wrenching, profound questioning followed by a…
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[Editor’s Note: This post is the fourth and final installation in our weekly Black History Month series, which have appeared on Thursdays in February in addition to our normal Tuesday and Saturday blogs.] In the context of Black History Month, we want to talk about the experiences of African-descendant Latinas. This time we want to…
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Pope Francis is serious about finding competent women to place in administrative positions. This week, it is Nathalie Becquart, a Xavière Missionary Sister, appointed as one of two  undersecretaries in the Vatican’s office for the Synod of Bishops. This is especially interesting because organizing a meeting of bishops is not usually a role assigned to…
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[Editor’s Notes:  This post is the second installation in our weekly Black History Month series, which will appear on Thursdays in February in addition to our normal Tuesday and Saturday blogs. There has been much discussion and debate around the correct use of pronouns when discussing the life, work, and personhood of Pauli Murray. Pauli’s…
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