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By Andrea Smith. The concept of intersectionality has often focused on identity, particularly that of women of color. In other words, how does race and gender intersect in the lives of women of color? While this analysis is helpful, it is also important to focus on the intersectionality of logics of domination as they structure the […]
What is the global and local impact of the U.S. political situation in 2017? The Feminist Liberation Theologians’ Network (FLTN) began a conversation on this topic at AAR/SBL 2016 by considering the impact of intersectional approaches and experiences on political response and engagement. This FSR Blog @theTable and partnered open call invite you to continue that conversation. This week, […]
By Jordan Conley. Since at least 2014, women have been leaving their “I voted” stickers at the grave of Susan B. Anthony in Rochester, New York. After the state’s primary, photos of the headstone covered in stickers went viral. The Smithsonian, in an article about the tradition, called it “a small tribute to a big […]
Position: Professor of Religion and LGBTQ/Queer Studies. Focus/Specialization: Open and may include historically informed, comparative, and globally engaged approaches to the study of religion. Department: Department of Religion. Institution: Columbia University. Level: Open rank, tenure-track. Deadline: 1 November 2016. Website: https://academicjobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=63421. Official Posting (https://chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000333423-01): The Department of Religion at Columbia University invites applications for an open rank appointment in religion and […]
Position: Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies. Focus/Specialization: Contextual theologies of historically marginalized groups (Latina/Latino, Black, and Womanist, etc.). Institution: St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin. Level: Entry-level, tenure-track. Deadline: 15 October 2016. Website: St. Norbert’s College: Theology and Religious Studies. Official Posting: St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin, invites applications for a tenure-track, entry-level position in Theology and Religious Studies. […]
Position: Dr. Margo L. Goldsmith Professorship in Women’s Studies in Religion. Focus/Specialization: Early Christianity, with an eye toward broader implications for women’s experiences in antiquity, western civilization, and modern society. Institution: Claremont Graduate University. Level: Open, tenure-track. Deadline: 15 October 2015. Website: https://claremont-graduate-university.workable.com. Official Posting (https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53472): The Religion Department at Claremont Graduate University invites applications for the Dr. Margo L. Goldsmith Professorship […]
We want to hear your responses to FSR Blog’s @theTable: “Transcending Transphobia.” Having rethought about religious rhetorics, gendercide, and HB2 (Jacqueline M. Hidalgo), critiqued the rhetoric of trans-exclusive radical feminism and religion (Siobhan Kelly), explored non-binary transgender as Nepantla (Robyn Henderson-Espinoza), and finished with some concluding reflections on the conversation thus far and on the language of […]
By Robyn Henderson-Espinoza. As someone who lives on multiple borderlands and always betwixt in/between male and female, race, class, ability, and religion, I have experienced a deep struggle in dominant trans literature that has largely surfaced throughout the academy for not having space for someone like myself. I am certain there are others who have similar […]
By Siobhan Kelly. The field of feminist studies in religion has failed to live up to its liberatory potential when it comes to trans* inclusion and liberation. As a young scholar of religion whose gender differs from its binary assignment at birth, feminism, to me, is supposed to be a place to find home; its […]
By Jacqueline M. Hidalgo. As a student and teacher of religion, I must wrestle with the way that religious discourses and practices have been deeply implicated in settler colonial violence and gendercide, undertaken in the name of “doing good,” of doing what is construed as divinely right and natural. In late eighteenth century colonial New […]