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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 […]
Discussion of the diaconate for Catholic women is in vogue and in need of some new thinking. Whether it will be a permanent or transitional diaconate, whether there is historical precedent for it or not, what women deacons might actually do if given the opportunity, whether this is a power grabby would-be feminist clerics, etc. […]
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 […]
I love reading my offline newspaper, The New York Times, delivered to my doorsteps, every morning. I love it because I never know what I will read while drinking my Darjeeling tea. The advantage of the offline issue is that editors prepared the sequence of articles for us offline readers whereas in the online edition […]
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. […]
Working moms and stay-at-home moms have a tough life. Whether we work or stay at home as we raise our children, we will come to an inevitable point in our lives when we have to “let go” of our children and allow them to grow and become adults. Whether dropping them off at college or […]
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 […]
Earlier this month, in a quiet, upper middle-class neighborhood in Istanbul, the body of Hande Kader, a trans*woman activist for LGBTQ justice in Turkey, was found mutilated and burned after she had been reported as missing for a couple of weeks. Kader’s murder is another in a country where the highest number of trans*persons are murdered […]
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 […]