The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has made major news headlines over the past two months. The challenge went viral on social media this summer, but it didn’t start there. For a few years, various organizations have promoted “cold water challenges” that couple dosing friends with requesting donations. In summer of 2014, a few celebrity personalities […]
Asian American woman have lived and suffered in a problematic cycle of racism from the wider community and patriarchy from within the Asian American community. I attended my first Feminist Studies in Religion (FSR) Leadership meeting in June 2014 and learned a lot about its history and its organization. Through this meeting, I came to […]
A version of this blog was posted previously at The Huffington Post. This post is about women of color clergywomen and ending discrimination. The Women of Color will hold a Launch Event on October 17 and 18, 2014, at Convent Avenue Baptist Church, in Harlem, NY. All are welcome to attend. Please share this post with […]
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 […]
By Claire Miller Skriletz Last year I was fortunate enough to present a paper on The Book of Margery Kempe at a local conference. The version of the paper I presented focused on the gendered roles Margery’s contemporaries attempted to assign to her, her resistance or reconfiguration of those roles, and how her self-defined roles […]
In the past, I’ve shared my thoughts about celebrating Mother’s Day. Today, I find myself considering very similar gender based issues on Father’s Day. In a single thought, I’m not a fan of Hallmark Holidays that reinforce gender divisions. Instead, I hope we can use these moments to reflect more deeply on the moral act […]
When I was a Ph.D. candidate almost twenty years ago, I had big dreams. I had dreams that I would write great books. I would write lots of them. I dreamed about collaborating on some books with senior scholars, editing textbooks and having a wonderful life making a difference with my books. I even dreamed […]
In the present day of social media and blogging, many are now turning to the internet to share thoughts, concepts and more importantly ideas that matter to them most. The Feminist Studies in Religion Blog (FSR Blog) has been a place for regular contributors to share thoughts on various aspects of how feminist studies in religion […]