I saw this today in my Facebook feed and had to share this paeon against patriarchy. May we all join the dance! “Look out for that one,” They said of the woman Who didn’t move within the lines. “She’s becoming free.” “What do you mean, free?” A little girl asked, attracted, intrigued. “She sees what […]
“The system of patriarchy can function only with the cooperation of women. This cooperation is secured by a variety of means: gender indoctrination; educational deprivation; the denial to women of knowledge of their history, the dividing of women, one from the other, by defining ‘respectability’ and ‘deviance’ according to women’s sexual activities; by restraints and […]
“How do we unmask the power of patriarchy and live into the liberating spirit of Jesus?” key to our future. How do “Synods of Bishops” become fully “Synods of the Faithful?”The issue is greater than the church itself. Patriarchy laid the groundwork for capitalism, a system that, when not tempered by a spirit of justice, […]
Thank you “Democracy Now”!
A message of counsel from a Feminist Theological Perspective… Let’s get one thing clear, shall we? Sex is not a sin. OK? Got that? Sex was never a sin. Not in the Garden of Eden, not now, not ever. It is the reason we are all here. It is a biological necessity like food and […]
sometimes I wonderif mary breastfed jesusif she cried out when he bit heror if she sobbed when he would not latch and sometimes I wonderif this is all too vulgarto ask in a churchfull of menwithout milk stains on their shirtsor coconut oil on their breastspreaching from pulpits off limits to the mother of god […]
Originally posted on A Seat At The Table:
Alice Walker We have to live differently or we will die in the same old ways. Therefore, I call on all Grand Mothers everywhere on the planet to rise and take your place in the leadership of the world Come out of the kitchen out of the…
“Patriarchal cultures, whether religious or secular, promote dominance/submission ideologies that can traumatize: belief in hell, purity culture, complementarity between sexes or distinct but separate gender roles, and beliefs about sexuality wherein men are assumed to be lustful by nature, and women’s role is to avoid tempting them. Such beliefs when internalized can have a deep […]
Haven’t written for a while. 2020 was just too overwhelming. And it looks like we are off to a less than healthy start (actually and metaphorically) in 2021. The Vatican has issued a “motu proprio” apostolic letter explicitly allowing female readers and altar servers which has received as much criticism for not going far enough as […]
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