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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. Naomi Goldenberg (JFSR) and Kathleen McPhillips (JFSR) have published a new volume: The End of Religion: Feminist Reappraisals of the State. Grace Ji-Sun Kim’s (FSR) new book […]
By Midori E. Hartman. November 7th is an important day in United States history for more than one reason. On this same day in 1893, Colorado held a referendum to determine women’s suffrage—the right to vote—becoming the first U.S. state to do so. This would kickstart a domino effect for enfranchisement for women at the […]
“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. VOICE, the Yale Divinity School Women’s Center student journal, was recently resurrected by the current directors. Alumna and editor emerita, Kate Ott (JFSR), wrote an introduction to […]
By Midori E. Hartman. She wished to find out about this hazardous business of “passing,” this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take one’s chances in another environment, not entirely strange, perhaps, but certainly not friendly. (Nella Larsen, “Passing,” 1929). First there was Rachel Dolezal, then there was Jessica Krug, and […]
“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 […]