By Arminta Fox. The risks are great for online feminists, as Megan Goodwin’s recent blog post argues. In some circles, adding religion to the conversation makes it riskier, even if being undone by the feminist religious other is desirable. The risks for feminists of color and non-cisgender feminists, who face multiplicative levels of oppression, can […]
By Megan Goodwin. The internet is no safe place for women. Yes, all women. In “Social Media, Feminism and Public Writing,” Grace Ji Sun Kim compellingly argues the need for religious studies scholars and theologians to make their work accessible to the public, and to engage in online discussions about the things that matter most to […]
FiR’s open call for blog submissions on the topic of “Feminism Online” has been extended! Extended Deadline: 1 October 2015 (with the possibility of rolling admissions). We want you, our readers, to get your voice out there: there is still much more to be said about doing feminist work on religion online! Don’t know where […]
Don’t forget: we want to hear your responses to @ the Table: “Feminism Online”! Having explored what it means to be undone by the feminist other (Xochitl Alvizo), why we engage in public writing and theology (Grace Ji-Sun Kim), what constitutes feminist and academic blogging (Mary E. Hunt), and finally why we engage in the […]
What does it mean to engage in feminist conversations about religion online? Is there something that makes the meeting of “feminisms” and “religions” unique, even important? As a member of the board of the Feminism in Religion forum, I am sometimes called upon to answer these questions, by conversation partners, potential contributors, friends, and loved […]
Academic and activist work meld in media, not the least of which in the blogosphere. As I participate in and observe the development of the FIR blog, I note four critical issues in this regard. My brief exploration of them is an invitation to colleagues to participate in the shaping of a medium whose limits […]
Public Lives We live in an increasingly public world where our lives are more and more lived in and touched by the public. What we wear, what we eat, where we are going, with whom we are hanging around are just some of the things which are becoming increasingly easy for the world to see […]
Really, how do we do it? How do feminist activists and scholars with our varying definitions of “feminism” stay in dialogue and partnership with one another? Part of the difficulty is captured by the question of what counts as “feminism” in the first place, and what are the standards by which we deem one another […]
What counts as feminism on the internet? What happens when religion is brought into the conversation? And most importantly for the Feminism In Religion Forum (FiR), what does it mean to engage in this process with an academic lens? @ The Table and our partnered open-call consider the stakes and challenges that arise when “feminism” […]
Feminist Studies in Religion Forum is joining with the Feminism and Religion blog for a joint conversation. Four papers were presented in Chicago at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 17, 2012, in a session entitled “Feminism, Religion and Social Media: Expanding Borders in the Twenty-First Century,” organized by Gina Messina-Dysert […]