added by Keely Adler · updated 2y ago
How Religion Can Be Used to Build a New Future
trans activists linking arms with reproductive justice activists promotes cultural peace: the coalition illustrates how these fights are linked under a common umbrella of gender justice and bodily autonomy.
from How Religion Can Be Used to Build a New Future by Religiously Blonde
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
- Understanding religion’s immense power and influence might just help us identify how to wield it toward a different, more equitable future.
from How Religion Can Be Used to Build a New Future by Religiously Blonde
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- it’s easy to identify how transphobic direct violence (assaults, hate crimes, murders) is influenced by cultural transphobia (rigid enforcement of the gender binary, erasure of trans people in the public square) and structural transphobia (laws barring gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth, or removing access to public bathrooms). All o... See more
from How Religion Can Be Used to Build a New Future by Religiously Blonde
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- Religion is just one of many categories of power that can inform violence in the world—be it structural, cultural, or direct. When we understand these kinds of violence as interrelated, we can better work towards dismantling it and creating peace.
from How Religion Can Be Used to Build a New Future by Religiously Blonde
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- As the critic Saba Mahmood says: “To critique a particular normative regime is not to reject or condemn it; rather, by analyzing its regulatory and productive dimensions, one only deprives it of innocence and neutrality so as to craft, perhaps, a different future.”
from How Religion Can Be Used to Build a New Future by Religiously Blonde
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- If religion has become synonymous with violence or regression or injustice, it’s not just because it is embedded in so many matrices of power. It’s also because the people who are challenging the hegemony and seeking to carve out a different future have been overlooked, erased, or ignored. This is the destructive power of cultural norms.
from How Religion Can Be Used to Build a New Future by Religiously Blonde
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- To imagine a different future, a more complicated view of religion can be a powerful tool.
from How Religion Can Be Used to Build a New Future by Religiously Blonde
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- trans activists linking arms with reproductive justice activists promotes cultural peace: the coalition illustrates how these fights are linked under a common umbrella of gender justice and bodily autonomy.
from How Religion Can Be Used to Build a New Future by Religiously Blonde
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- When we throw our hands up at religion and flatten its role in our lives, societies, and institutions, we allow hegemonic power to go unchecked.
from How Religion Can Be Used to Build a New Future by Religiously Blonde
Keely Adler added 2y ago