Category Archives: Living It Out

Colaboración as an Antiracist Methodology in the Feminist Study of Religion (@theTable: “Racism and the Feminist Study of Religion”)

Blog @ the Table, Living It Out, Pedagogy, Politics, Social Justice January 22, 2021

By Darryl W. Stephens and Elizabeth Soto Albrecht. Scholarship conceived as the lone academic expert seated behind an isolated oak desk continues to limit our ability to address systemic, social oppressions. We argue that antiracist scholarship cannot be achieved by reproducing the structures that brought us here. Liberatory methods are required to achieve liberatory ends. […]

Black Women’s Bodies On My Mind

Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder Current Events, Living It Out, Politics, Pop Culture, Social Justice January 21, 2021

By Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder. As a Black woman has just become the first Black, first woman, first South Asian to occupy the U.S. vice presidency, Black women’s bodies have been on my mind. My own body has been on my mind. I have been thinking about self-care, wellness, and the importance of never negotiating boundaries. […]

Roll/Role Call: Invocation, Remembrance, Lamentation, and #SayHerName (@theTable: “Racism and the Feminist Study of Religion”)

Blog @ the Table, Faith Practices, Living It Out, Pedagogy, Politics, Social Justice January 15, 2021

By Jennifer T. Kaalund. We are born and have our being in a place of memory…We know ourselves through the art and act of remembering. Memories offer us a world where we are sustained by rituals of regard and recollection. bell hooks For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. […]

@theTable: “Racism and the Feminist Study of Religion”

Blog @ the Table, Living It Out, Pedagogy, Politics, Social Justice, Uncategorized January 14, 2021

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 […]

“Passing” in the Age of Anti-Black Racism

Midori Hartman Current Events, Living It Out, Politics, Pop Culture October 13, 2020

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 […]

@theTable CFP: “Racism and the Feminist Study of Religion”

Blog @ the Table, Current Events, Living It Out, Politics, Social Justice September 21, 2020

“Body as One as History” as Theological Resource

Blog Living It Out, The Arts September 18, 2020

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 #ScholarStrike

Blog Current Events, Jobs/Funding, Living It Out, Politics, Social Justice September 7, 2020

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 […]

An Invitation to “Breathe”

Blog Current Events, Living It Out, Politics, Social Justice July 31, 2020

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 […]

Action Items to Combat Anti-Black Racism

FSR Archives, Current Events, FSR, Living It Out, Politics, Social Justice July 3, 2020

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 […]