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This past weekend, Michael Brown – another young and unarmed black man, was murdered. By the police. In response, his community of #ferguson, Missouri responded en masse. The predominantly African American community has taken to the streets and given voice and body to the shared grief, indescribable outrage, and deep wounds suffered by African American […]
A version of this blog was posted previously on Gathering Voices a blog of TheThoughtfulChristian.com. Consider the following two experiments. First, if you are on Facebook, have you probably noticed that many of your friends are missing from your newsfeed. It isn’t because they don’t post updates. It’s because their updates don’t fit with your […]
By Christy Cobb Theater has been one of my passions since childhood. I acted in my first play (Alice in Alice in Wonderland) when I was in 5th grade and following that performance, theater became an important part of my life. In high school I performed in several productions and in college I pursued a […]
Job Posting: Open Rank Tenure-Track or Tenured Appointment in Arab and Muslim American Studies Beginning Date: 1 September 2015 Institution: University of Michigan (Department of American Culture and Women’s Studies) Application Deadline: 7 October 2014 Official Posting:(https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=49180) University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, American Culture, and Women’s Studies ARAB / MUSLIM AMERICAN AND WOMEN’S STUDIES The University of Michigan’s […]
Job Posting: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Beginning Date: Fall 2015 Institution: Scripps College Application Deadline: 1 October 2014 Official Posting: (https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3984) Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Scripps College Position ID: Scripps–FGSS–TTFGSS [#3984] Position Title: Tenure-Track Position Type: Tenure-track faculty Position Location: Claremont, California 91711, United States [map] Subject Area: Feminist, Gender, […]
If I were a member of Congress (now there’s an idea for a second career) I would hire a religion major on my staff. Actually, I would hire someone trained in feminist studies in religion because I think such people have a strong handle on what is happening around the globe. Consider recent world events, […]
Call for Papers: Digital Diversity 2015: Writing/Feminism/Culture Organization/Host: University of Alberta and MacEwan University Contact: [email protected] Deadline: 15 September 2014 Official Posting (via http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/57587): How have new technologies transformed literary and cultural histories? How do they enable critical practices of scholars working in and outside of digital humanities? Have decades of digital studies enhanced, altered, or muted the […]
By Jacqueline Small The Church of England’s decision this week to permit women to become bishops is a welcome change from recent news stories about the contentious relationship between Christian hierarchies and women of faith. With the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints excommunicating Kate Kelly last month because she has advocated for […]
By Patricia Miller The best part working on my book Good Catholics: The Battle over Abortion in the Catholic Church was learning about the “foremothers” of the Catholic reproductive rights movement. Some of these women, like Rosemary Radford Ruether and Mary Daly, are well known. Others less so. One of these women, Elizabeth “Betty” Farians […]
Call for Applications: Fellowships for Threatened Scholars Organization: Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund Deadline: 1 August 2014 (N.B. Applications can be taken at any time in cases of emergency) Official Posting (via http://www.awid.org/Get-Involved/Calls-for-Participation2/Fellowships-for-Threatened-Scholars-Call-for-Applications-Summer-2014): The Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) announces an August 1 deadline for its next round of applications from […]