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• All We Have is Our Heart by Esther Nelson

  By Esther Nelson on June 14, 2021 • ( 12 )

  

  One of my former students recommended UNFOLLOW to me, a memoir written by Megan Phelps-Roper, granddaughter of Fred Phelps (1929 – 2014), the (in)famous pastor of Westboro Baptist Church, Topeka, Kansas. Some people may not be aware that Fred Phelps… Read More ›

• Chukat: Miriam, Feminists, and the Power of Water, by Ivy Helman.

  By Ivy Helman on June 13, 2021 • ( 8 )

  

  This week’s Torah portion is Chukat.  It covers a lot of ground.  There are the mitzvot concerning purification with a red cow, the deaths of important individuals, and the continued wanderings in the desert, which are rife with complaining Israelites,… Read More ›

• Plague Year Pilgrims: Let’s Keep Walking

  By Mary Sharratt on June 12, 2021 • ( 14 )

  

  Throughout our long Covid crisis, our daily walk offered precious respite from the tedium of being perpetually housebound and viewing the outer world through electronic screens. Walking brought us exercise and fresh air. It cleared our heads, lifted our mood,… Read More ›

• We are Not Oppressed Because We Remember Part 2 – Diaries of a young black woman by Chasity Jones

  By Guest Contributor on June 10, 2021 • ( 7 )

  

  Read Part 1 here. One of the 18 characteristics of Africana Womanism is being a self-definer. This piece is a sliver of my process to do and be exactly that. I am striving to be a whole Black woman. I… Read More ›

• Embodied Knowing, by Molly Remer

  By Molly Remer on June 9, 2021 • ( 7 )

  

  You are your ownsacred space. Your feet are alwayson temple ground. One of the key factors to me that differentiates feminist spiritual paths from many dominant religious traditions and frameworks is the recognition and acknowledgement of the body as a… Read More ›

• The Pear Tree by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on June 8, 2021 • ( 7 )

  

  She was more than a sapling, so robust. One summer she bowedher tear shaped body,offeringa hundred sweet pearsto any creaturethat sought her gifts.Did the deer remember? Fruit that fermented becamefertilizer for hungry plants. When theygirded her slender trunkthat winter I felt betrayedby the herd of graceful… Read More ›

• Eruptions of Inanna: Justice, Gender, and Erotic Power by Judy Grahn BOOK REVIEW by Carolyn Lee Boyd

  By Carolyn Lee Boyd on June 7, 2021 • ( 8 )

  

  Any new book by Judy Grahn is cause for celebration. For decades, Grahn has been a lyrical and passionate poet, author, mythographer, and cultural theorist whose work  features both goddess wisdom and contemporary culture centering on women and queer people…. Read More ›

• Juno—Women Need Your Power Today! by Barbara Ardinger

  By Barbara Ardinger on June 6, 2021 • ( 9 )

  

  Just as each Roman man had his genius, or guardian spirit of masculinity, so did each woman have her juno, or guardian spirit of femininity. Juno ruled every woman’s life, every feminine occasion. In the civic life of Rome during… Read More ›

• ¡La Vida es la Lucha! – Women in the Colombian Protests by Laura Montoya

  By Laura Montoya on June 4, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  *Trigger Warning – Reference and description of distressing violence against women at the hands of police* Alison Melendez was 17 when she was sexually abused last week by a group of Colombian policemen. She was captured for allegedly being part… Read More ›

• Feminist Parenting About Sexuality Part 2 – pornography by Trelawney Grenfell-Muir

  By Trelawney Grenfell-Muir on June 3, 2021 • ( 24 )

  

  As I said in Part 1 – this topic will be difficult to discuss. As I said, I promise I AM NOT SAYING ALL MEN ARE BAD. Please re-read Part 1 if this post causes you to feel defensive or… Read More ›

• From the Ground Up by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on June 1, 2021 • ( 9 )

  

  As a 76 year old feminist who lives alone (except for animals) I have been struck by some recent experiences I have had with kind men, men that I would call “Mothers’ sons”. Overall, throughout my life I have had… Read More ›

• How I Learned to Make Maps by Marie Cartier

  By Marie Cartier on May 28, 2021 • ( 9 )

  

  1. I went into the unknown world with glasses that made everything so clear I could move through this world into the next. Before I got my glasses…I didn’t see the way I could step to the edge, put out… Read More ›

• Addiction Matters by Karen Leslie Hernandez

  By Karen Leslie Hernandez on May 27, 2021 • ( 5 )

  

  A few of years ago, a video from the Civic Center Bart Station in San Francisco went viral – showing a line of people in the station, shooting up and passed out due to drug use. With the tagline on… Read More ›

• Bull, Oracle of Strength and Prosperity by Judith Shaw

  By Judith Shaw on May 26, 2021 • ( 9 )

  

  Bull, with its components of aggressiveness, stubbornness, virility, and ferocity, is emblematic of masculinity. But Bull is also associated with fertility, abundance, strength, and determination. Viewed by some cultures as a solar symbol – in the oldest myths, we find… Read More ›

• Fragments of Sinai by Jill Hammer

  By Jill Hammer on May 25, 2021 • ( 6 )

  

  Every year on Shavuot, the story of the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai is read in synagogues around the world. It’s a dramatic story, with thunder and lightning and mysterious ram’s horns blasting, and Moses disappearing into a… Read More ›

• More Biblical Poetry by Janet Maika’i Rudolph

  By Janet Rudolph on May 24, 2021 • ( 12 )

  

  This is the 3rd in a series of Biblical poetry where I am “translating” verses of the Bible. You can read the first two here: Biblical Poetry and Biblical Poetry, Part 2. One of my primary purposes of doing this… Read More ›

• Singing Is a Sacred Power by Carolyn Lee Boyd

  By Carolyn Lee Boyd on May 23, 2021 • ( 16 )

  

  A moss-soft ballad sung from a mountain top to the sunrise.  A parent’s lullaby to soothe a newborn to sleep. Thousands of voices rising together to banish injustice from our planet. A single wavering melody infusing inspiration into a moment… Read More ›

• Schism of Reality, Schism of the Republican Party By Anjeanette LeBoeuf

  By Anjeanette LeBoeuf on May 21, 2021 • ( 8 )

  

  The failed insurrection on January 6th  should have been a watershed moment for many to abandon the parasitic party of Trump. Sadly, after the dust and armed guards cleared, many have returned to their delusions and skewed realities. A few… Read More ›

• Lessons From the Mother Tree by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on May 18, 2021 • ( 22 )

  

  Last night I was reading Forest Scientist Susanne Simard’s new book “Finding the Mother Tree”. She was writing about how uncanny it was that her personal life has paralleled that of trees, the forests, the plants, the fungi, the mycorrhiza… Read More ›

• Teacher Appreciation Week & Appreciating Teaching by Sara Frykenberg

  By Sara Frykenberg on May 15, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  Part of discovering my love for teaching and moving through my anxiety involved reconsidering my “ideals” of teaching, which were numerous and high minded.

• What Does a Woman Want? by Esther Nelson

  By Esther Nelson on May 14, 2021 • ( 26 )

  

  Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), well-known Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis, “…said once to Marie Bonaparte: ‘The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into… Read More ›

• Biblical Poetry, Part 2 by Janet MaiKa’i Rudolph

  By Janet Rudolph on May 13, 2021 • ( 6 )

  

  Last month, I wrote about a new project I have been playing with which is to re-write biblical verses as spiritual poetry rather than follow along with stricter translations (although truth be told, my translations have never been strict). My… Read More ›

• The Red Hand on the Cave Wall by Carolyn Lee Boyd

  By Carolyn Lee Boyd on May 12, 2021 • ( 24 )

  

  As I have gotten older, I find I am drawn more to non-anthropomorphic, inexpressable-in-words, nature, and everyday focused visions of the Divine. Whereas before my spiritual practice involved more rituals and circles, unusually indoors, with others, now I more often… Read More ›

• ‘Mother’ West Wind and Mary’s Gold by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on May 11, 2021 • ( 5 )

  

  One day last week it almost drizzled. When I stepped outside that morning I was engulfed by fragrant mist. Rarely does light fog give the thirst- driven forest a temporary reprieve, greening needles, and encouraging tiny leaves to unfurl. With… Read More ›

• Bamidbar: Our Role in the In-Dwelling by Ivy Helman.

  By Ivy Helman on May 9, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  This week’s Torah portion is Bamidbar (Numbers 1:1-4:20).  Mostly, it concerns itself with: a census; the organization of the Isrealites in camp as well as while traveling; who is responsible for which parts of the Tabernacle; and the redemption of… Read More ›

• Feminist Parenting About Sexuality – Hold on, because this is going to hurt by Trelawney Grenfell-Muir

  By Trelawney Grenfell-Muir on May 8, 2021 • ( 29 )

  

  I have been asked numerous times by numerous people over the years to write about feminist issues, especially regarding teaching kids about consent, pornography, and healthy sexuality. The reason I have not tackled this project yet is that I know… Read More ›

• We Are Not Oppressed Because We Remember by Chasity Jones

  By Guest Contributor on May 7, 2021 • ( 13 )

  

  Many questions are asked of us as a community, but the answers which are so complex that we should be commended for even attempting to answer, are heard- if they are not interrupted- but rarely understood. As a Black mother… Read More ›

• A Problem of Design by Laura Casasbuenas

  By Guest Contributor on May 5, 2021 • ( 4 )

  

  When I was invited to create this post, a number of topics came to mind. But I decided to start our conversation with my response to the question: why do I write? I am a Colombian woman designer who promotes… Read More ›

• Speaking of Colombia by Xochitl Alvizo

  By Xochitl Alvizo on May 5, 2021 • ( 7 )

  

  Today (May 5) on Feminism and Religion, we have a post by new contributor Laura Casasbuenas. She is our third new contributor from Colombia, the land from where Laura Montoya, our current FAR intern, also hails. But news in Colombia… Read More ›

• Bears and Radical Ecology by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on May 4, 2021 • ( 3 )

  

  As an eco feminist I am deeply concerned with the loss of the animals I love. One of these is the Black bear whose visits are becoming more and more scarce as the forest around me disappears. The bear in… Read More ›

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