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Audre Lorde Reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

By Audre Lorde — 2019

Audre Lorde reads the essay “Uses of the Erotic: the Erotic as Power.” There are some ad-libs, but this reading is pretty faithful to the final text, which can be found in Lorde’s essay collection Sister Outsider, among other anthologies. One of the most important essays of the 20th century.

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Women of Wisdom

Women of Wisdom explores and celebrates the spiritual potential of all women, as exemplified by the lives of six Tibetan female mystics.

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Tsultrim Allione, Chögyam Trungpa (foreword)
2000
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Beth Moore Split Highlights Division in the Southern Baptist Convention

Moore is the latest prominent Southern Baptist to publicly leave the Southern Baptist Convention amid its struggles over race, gender and Trump’s legacy.

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Caroline Radnofsky and Suzanne Ciechalski
2021
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Women strive for larger roles in male-dominated religions

Women have been elected heads of national governments on six continents. They have flown into space, served in elite combat units and won every category of Nobel Prize. The global #MeToo movement, in 15 months, has toppled a multitude of powerful men linked to sexual misconduct.

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David Crary
2020
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Spirituality and Health for Women of Color

Spirituality among African American and Hispanic women has been associated with a variety of positive health outcomes.

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Catherine F. Musgrave, DNSc, RN, Carol Easley Allen, PhD, RN, and Gregory J. Allen, ThD
2002
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An ‘emerging voice’ on gender, identity, and religion

Brianne Painia was always interested in how the strong women who helped raise her were able to reconcile a self-assured independence with a Southern Baptist faith that sometimes suppressed it.

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Susan Gonzalez
2021
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Efforts by Women of Faith to Achieve Gender Equality

Here are five ways in which women of faith are fighting for gender equality at work and in broader society—empowering young women as feminist and womanist theologians, faith community leaders, social justice advocates, and elected officials.

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Rachel Koehler, Gwen Calais-Haase
2018
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A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism

Written by the first and only layperson to receive full dharma transmission in the Suzuki Roshi Soto Zen lineage, A Bigger Sky explores what it means to traverse the gaps of a Buddhism created by and for men, navigate the seemingly contradictory domains of secular and spiritual life, and walk a...

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Pamela Weiss
2020
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Womanstrength: Modern Church, Modern Women

This book contains 16 essays on women, women's role in the Church, social ministry, justice and peace, spirituality, and activism.

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Joan Chittister
1996
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An Interview with Jetsünma Tenzin Palmo

“The head nun just started crying. Of course I like to make offerings and to honor. But in 20 years of doing this … it’s all been males. This is the first time I’ve had the opportunity to honor a female.” - Head nun, Drupka nunnery about Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

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Craig Kaufman
2010
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The Heart of the Lotus: A Buddhist Perspective on Women’s Inner and Outer Liberation

Women have to read patriarchal teachings critically "with the eyes of a woman". The Heart of the Lotus presents central teachings of Buddhism and describes traps we fall into, if we do not consider our cultural background and our biological sex and social gender.

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Sylvia Wetzel, Jane Anhold (translator)
2015
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