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“Off the Press” is an FSR series that highlights the exciting news and accomplishments of our FSR Board membership that they wish to be shared with the wider community. Sylvia Marcos (JFSR) has been invited to teach and publish with the Catedra de Teología Feminista in the Department of Religious Sciences (Ciencias Religiosas) of Universidad Iberoamericana Campus, […]
Black feminists and other scholars of gender studies have critiqued the whiteness of the Feminist movement, noting how the suffrage movement and second and third wave feminism have often betrayed or overlooked Black and brown women’s needs, rights, and organizations. Feminism has benefited from and participated in White supremacy. Religions have, as well, been complicit […]
By Andie Sheridan. Myung Mi Kim, an influential poet in the Asian American writing community, immigrated from South Korea at the age of nine to the United States and began writing about the colonization of the Asian American body through poetry. Her book Under Flag (2001), which explores the trauma of Asian American women’s bodies, […]
FSR supports the #ScholarStrike on September 8th and 9th, a 48 hour period for scholars to take a stand against racism, especially anti-Black racism. For more information, see academeblog.org, InsideHigherEd, and CNN. Additionally, see the American Academy of Religion’s statement and the Keeping it 101 podcast’s reflection on the strike. If you would like to participate in the #ScholarStrike, visit the action’s official […]
“Off the Press” is an FSR series that highlights the exciting news and accomplishments of our FSR Board membership that they wish to be shared with the wider community. Sarah Emanuel (CoLaboratory) was interviewed on the Spiriosity podcast where she spoke on trauma in sacred texts. N.B. If you are an FSR Board member and want […]
By Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder. There is a theology of geography. There is a connection between space and fate. There is something unspoken that connects destiny with places, places with people. Towns and cities do not surface with notoriety. Sometimes the most unexpected places produce the most extraordinary people. Before August 9, 2014, there was little […]
“Off the Press” is an FSR series that highlights the exciting news and accomplishments of our FSR Board membership that they wish to be shared with the wider community. Sarah Emanuel (CoLaboratory) has recently published a book chapter and a magazine article: “Grace Be to You in the Presence of the Past: Ghosts, Hauntings, and Traumatic […]
By Oluwatomisin Oredein. The Motivation On June 5th, 2020 I took to Facebook to post a message inspired by the wave of white recognition of racism’s unrelenting evil, especially in light of the murder of George Floyd. En masse, I saw how white people were beginning to feel the world differently. I also recognized that […]
“Off the Press” is an FSR series that highlights the exciting news and accomplishments of our FSR Board membership that they wish to be shared with the wider community. Jordan Conley (CoLaboratory) received a prestigious grant from the North American Patristics Society to complete her doctoral dissertation, “Bodies, Blessings, and Bile: Sensory Encounters at the Shrine […]
Feminist Studies in Religion7.1.20 The leadership of Feminist Studies in Religion (FSR) reflected on and continues to lament the anti-Black racism exposed in the recent police killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, and other Black people, which have gained international attention. After conversation across our various boards and leadership, we have developed the […]