WRITING THE LONGEST REVOLUTION
Posted in In Memorium, Mary Daly's Writings on Apr 30th, 2010
The Mary Daly Memorial Service scheduled for this Saturday, May 1, 2010, at the Episcopal Divinity School, 99 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, at 2 p.m. Boston time, will be broadcast over the internet. To register, go here.
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Posted in Giants, Heroes, In Memorium on Apr 8th, 2010
TAHLEQUAH — The friendship of the first woman to be named Cherokee Nation Principal Chief and a 1960s and 1970s feminist icon was not only a political alliance, but a friendship of mutual trust and respect.
Left: Angela Davis, Wilma Mankiller and Gloria Steinem in 1998
“We were a chosen family,” said Gloria [...]
Posted in Being Poor, Being colonized, Colonialism, Earth, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Imperialism, In Memorium, Indigenous Women's Rights, Loss, Love, Mourning, Racism, The Mother, The Skies on Feb 14th, 2010
2010, Year of the Natives in America, video via Mitzi Belliveau on Facebook. How might things be different had we all grown up seeing images like this all of the time, all around us, instead of the images we’ve all seen, over and over again?
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Posted in In Memorium, Mary Daly's Writings on Jan 22nd, 2010
Peaceable Kingdom by Laura Egan
In my nightly Mary Daly readings, I am continually struck by all that has been eroded, forgotten, forsaken, lost over the past 30 years among so many who identify as feminists. Years ago, and still today in some feminist circles, the interconnectedness and interdependence of all life was “foregrounded,” made to be [...]
Posted in In Memorium, Mary Daly's Writings on Jan 22nd, 2010
…the sadostate…can also be called the State of Boredom. For it is infinitely boring to be blocked from the movement of/toward one’s innately ordained happiness. The corporate Big Brothers of Boredom daily demonstrate the impotence to reach beyond appearances that characterizes phallic lust. Unable to be whole, those driven by that lust attempt to find [...]
Posted in Giants, Heroes, In Memorium on Jan 15th, 2010
After a lecture or discussion, men have sometimes asked: “What do I do to join the movement?” They are assured that there is nothing to sign– no card, no contract. Since our covenant is an agreement that is found rather than formed, men who are “graceful” enough to have fallen into the new space and [...]
Posted in Giants, Heroes, In Memorium on Jan 15th, 2010
“Mary Daly saved my life,” said Susannah Heschel. Struggling when other Jews rebuffed her efforts to say Kaddish for the father of whom she was the only child, Heschel found an explanation of her experience in Beyond God the Father. Now she had a framework for understanding the hurtful behavior of her coreligionists and she [...]
Posted in Giants, Heroes, In Memorium on Jan 15th, 2010
Many readers will know that Professor Mary Daly, pioneering, brilliant, and controversial feminist theologian, died last week at age 81. …Professor Daly taught for some 30 years at Boston College, and so she was my colleague there from 1984, when I joined the faculty, until her retirement (forced or free) about a decade ago. Her years [...]
Posted in Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Giants, Heroes, In Memorium, Lesbian Community, Love Between Women, Sisterhood, Woman-Only Space, Women's Excellence on Jan 14th, 2010
For many years now I have been interested in the relationship between scapegoating violence and a phenomenon known as — or theorized as — “mimetic desire.” French philosopher and academic Rene Girard is widely credited with developing this theory or philosophy. Briefly (and necessarily reductively), mimetic desire theory posits that human beings are by nature social, that we are [...]
Posted in Heroes, In Memorium on Jan 11th, 2010
Linda Barafuldi’s tribute to Mary Daly is up at the Women’s Media Center. She writes in part:
In the seventies some of Mary Daly’s graduate students began calling her Doctors Daly because she had three doctorates, one from Notre Dame, and two, in theology and in philosophy, from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. At the uber-catholic [...]
