Tikkun Daily Blog Archive (https://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/category/politics/gender-and-sexuality/page/9/)
About struggles to be who we are, and to love each other across the categories.
When patriarchal social and family structures converge with patriarchal religious systems, which reinforce strictly defined gender hierarchies of male domination, women and girl’s oppression and oppression of those who transgress sexuality- and gender-based boundaries became inevitable.
On the anniversary of the Stonewall Inn Bar riots, Warren Blumenfeld reflects on the evolution of forty-five years of LGBT rights since then that have changed the face and minds of many Americans and continue to require our support and activism.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) has connected a number of forms of oppression, most notably sexism, heterosexism, and racism.
In light of the recent vote in the Presbyterian Church, which will allow Presbyterian ministers to officiate same-gender marriage, Craig Wiesner writes a reflection on the last decade and the evolution of the Church’s stance on the matter, citing as an example, his own marriage and the many trials, as well as triumphs, he and his spouse experienced as advocates of reform.
“Truth” is what the dominant group declares truth to be. “Knowledge” is anything the dominant group defines as “knowledge,” though “knowledge” itself is socially constructed and produced. How many must we humans kill before we realize that there are many ways toward the truth, not one way for everyone when it comes to religion and spirituality?
Let us join together and make this Father’s Day a Feminist Father’s Day. Let us be bold and courageous, knowing that we can make a huge difference in the lives of our children, families and communities. Let us join with feminist movements to help change society, one diaper, load of dishes, conversation, public stand, direct action, mass convergence, at a time.
A commentary on the statements issued and stances taken by the Texas Republican Party, which promotes homosexuals to seek “reparative therapy” as an effective means of ‘treatment’.
We are proud that Rabbi Michael Lerner, co-chair of the NSP– Network of Spiritual Progressives, and rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue-Without-Walls, stood with other community leaders in urging the conservative Catholic archbishop of San Francisco to withdraw from an anti-homosexual group’s rally in Washington, D.C. Read about it here.
During his time here, Harvey Milk he did not simply walk, but in fact, he paved a path of justice and decency. This year, the US Postal Service honors him with a ‘forever stamp’ but the American Family Association (AFA) is encouraging a boycott of the stamp, calling the tribute “disturbing.”
One women is breaking the silence – telling just a few of her personal experiences dealing with sexual violence, both physical and emotional, in hopes that it will encourage others to break the silence and speak up against misogyny, violence and oppression experienced every single day by women around the world.