This week is graduation. While not all of the contributors to this blog were seniors in college this semester, enough are graduating to bring a slightly different tone this semester’s wrap-up (see last semester’s here). Their insights are messages from their present selves to their future selves.
I asked, “What did you learn?”
They answered by describing who they hope to become. Continue reading
In reading Sojourner Truth’s pieces for this week’s class, I began to think a lot about what intersectionality means for me, a white twenty year-old Catholic woman. Being completely honest, I grew up quite privileged – both of my parents are married, I attended private school, and we took family vacations often. So, when I first learned about intersectionality in an Introduction to Women and Gender Studies class last semester, I didn’t think it really ‘applied’ to me. Yes, I am a woman (a minority), but I’m also white (a majority). Continue reading
I am interested in the overlapping of global ideas of feminism and religion. As a Social Work and Women’s and Gender studies student, I am passionate about the intersections of class, race, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, and many more identities with which people identify their lived experiences. I am particularly interested in observing the intersections of transnational feminism and religion. Christian women in the Western world experience different cultural and institutional realities than do Muslim women in Southeast Asia, for example. I am interested in initiating a discussion about how people’s gender identities are shaped by religious affiliation. What defines a woman and how does religious affiliation shape her performance of womanhood? Specifically, what does it mean for a woman to identify as Christian? What effects does this identity have globally with women of other religions? Continue reading
Navigating Mansions 