As someone who has studied Arabic for a couple of years, compelled primarily by a desire to understand the Qur’an, and who remembers the frustration of not being able to understand it (and is aware of it still, because I have not mastered the language) I’m heartbroken when religious people—particularly women—dismiss their own interpretations on …
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“What you have is, is Mitt Romney running around the country saying ‘Well, my wife tells me what women really care about is economic issues, and when I listen to my wife, that’s what I’m hearing.’ Guess what? His wife has never actually worked a day in her life. She’s—she’s never really dealt with the …
Continue reading The War On Women, the War Over Us, and the War Among Us
This post is brought to you by a bewildering conversation I had a while ago in which an XY tried to mansplain to me that his interpretation of a specific verse pertaining to women is not unjust because it is from God, and therefore [what is from God] cannot unjust. (Read: His interpretation is from …
Continue reading Rejecting Your Sense of Justice is Rejecting a Device of God
In studying Islam and researching religious tradition, I naturally encounter sectorial differences in the perception of religious figures and in the practice of religious rituals; —while I’ve described my renouncing approach to Islamic sects, in dismissing sectarianism and contemplating its contraints from the position of a religious woman, without disclosing with which sectorial teachings I …
Click each of these to enlarge. (Institutionalized racism, in case you're living under a rock and need proof white privilege exists.) In other fun news concerning the representation of women: Democratic Women Boycott House Contraception Hearing After Republicans Prevent Women From Testifying Congressional Birth Control Hearing Involves Exactly Zero People Who Have a Uterus and …
Continue reading Gender Wage Gaps by Level of Education (2008); by Gender and Race (1970—2010)
In one of my classes yesterday, we were discussing the Virgin Mary, particularly when she appeared as Virgen de Guadalupe, and I was reminded of how uneasy and erased I feel whenever Mary is defined as a Catholic saint. Of course, in the context of this specific lesson, she was a Catholic saint, and in …
I started classes last month (this is my excuse for the slower entries) and a couple of things have surfaced: firstly, in a study of masculinities and femininities course, the inquiry of nature versus nurture in regards to gender predictably emerged. Secondly, in a timely manner, Scientific American produced this excellent article critiquing a study …
Continue reading The Ramifications of Insisting Men and Women are from Different Species
the fatal feminist 