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“Mr. Trump, today my son asked me if he could deny that I am Muslim”

Dear Mr. Trump: I am an American Muslim - Shareen Mansfield on @rolereboot I am the girl who grew into a woman who had to bury her identity to pass through life without judgement. Dear Mr. Trump: I...

#bookreview: Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror – @RehmanYasmin on @strifejournal

How have we come to this? troubleandstrife.org knocks it out of the park again. This time it's a review of Christine Delphy’s Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror. The t...

Mother’s Day in a patriarchal and matricidal culture? @CarolPChrist on @FemReligion

One of the reasons many of us feel uneasy about celebrating Mother’s Day is our culture’s failure to criticize the institution of motherhood. If we celebrate Mother’s Day, are we endorsing the patriar...

#todayin: who would have thunk it! Women rare in top positions of religious leadership – @pewresearch

Not rocket science. But always worth a highlight. From @pewresearch: While many large religious organizations in the United States allow women to be ordained – and to hold leadership positions wit...

“Like many people who are Muslim, wear a headscarf, or are simply brown…” @estblshmnt

“I’m mostly terrified of the equally terrified people who might at any moment decide that I am to blame for their fear. Like many people who are Muslim, wear a headscarf, or are simply brown, I’m afra...

#womenslives: Nepal’s bleeding shame: menstruating women banished to cattle sheds

Posted without comment. (OK, one comment: god in heaven!) On guardian.com (emphasis added): For five consecutive days each month, Sofalta Rokaya leaves the bed in her home in western Nepal to sleep...

#research: Women more religiously devout than men, new study finds

#research: Women more religiously devout than men, new study finds… … despite still being excluded from positions of power, influence and leadership in most (all?) religions/ faiths. On the Guardia...

#womenslives: Modern methods allow the Islamic State to keep up its systematic rape of captives under medieval codes

Locked inside a room where the only furniture was a bed, the 16-year-old learned to fear the sunset, because nightfall started the countdown to her next rape. During the year she was held by the Is...

Feminists need to learn about religion – @drkristinaune (on @conversationUK)

It's an argument. This here feminist (me) is certainly guilty of summarily dismissing all religions (with some grounds, but still...). (Parts of this piece are confusing, at least to me, particularly ...

“The ideology of these groups is embedded in rigid misogyny and sexism” – Namia Akhtar

Couldn't be any plainer. On The Daily Star:  Contemporary terrorist groups like Daesh (ISIS), Boko Haram, Taliban and Al-Qaeda incorporate a political agenda with an ideological twist of Islam, with ...

#inhaste: Evangelicals’ support of Trump shouldn’t come as a surprise

From the LAtimes: "So all that head-scratching isn't necessary; it should come as little surprise that the candidate of choice for evangelicals so far in this 2016 election season is a twice-divorced,...

#todayin: erasure of women: the rebel virgins and desert mothers who have been written out of Christianity’s early history

Now, here's some good Sunday reading if ever there was any. Now, whether you buy any of Christianity or not is irrelevant here - think instead of the perspectives of those who do. I. FROM SILK ROBE...

Islamophobia is gender violence and a feminist issue (from @FemReligion)

This is an excellent and important essay exploring the particularly gendered violence of Islamophobia (that is, that anti-muslim violence is disproportionately directed at women) and how Islamophobia ...

#inhaste: the year we all talked about the Catholic Church (on @newrepublic)

From newrepublic: In 2015, however, we saw the two genres intersect often in the pages of the country’s most-read publications, much thanks to the larger-than-life presence of Pope Francis. The result...

Politicking periods (by @Harriet_Burgess/ @5050oD)

Brilliant, excellent, wonderful, fantastic (seriously!) post by @Harriet_Burgess on opendemocracy about abortion in Ireland and specifically about women in Ireland tweeting Taoiseach Enda Kenny ab...

#saturdaysatire: Pope Francis Forgives Women for Having Periods

In an act of unprecedented grace, Pope Francis has announced that the Catholic Church will allow priests to forgive women who have committed the “original sin” of menstruation. “It is important, ...

Yes we should debate, but also celebrate, Islamic feminism (by @carmenroselittl/ @RoomOfOurOwn)

A few weeks ago I was drawn to the launch of a new project by the group Maslaha on the topic of Islam and Feminism. Maslaha, which means ‘for the common good’ in Arabic, is a social enterprise that st...

#womensstories: Life with a dissident: searching for ‘horizontal freedom’

#womensstories: Life with a dissident: searching for ‘horizontal freedom’: J is known to the Christian circle as a ‘shimu’, a term referring to the wife of a pastor in Chinese. She admitted that when...

#saturdaysatire: Heartwarming Moment 78-Year-Old Celibate Man Forgives Women He’s Never Met

God bless him (pun totally intended and make no mistake). THIS 78-Year-Old man totally won the internet yesterday with this amazing gesture. Get the tissues ready, it’s a tearjerker. This celibate...

“They Hate Us”: Headscarves and Hymens”

“They Hate Us”: Headscarves and Hymens. Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution, by Mona Eltahawy. (Click image for larger, and then click again.) “They hate us,” she writes, “It must be...