Whatever Works! Feminists of Faith Speak
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From the editing team of Trista Hendren and Pat Daly, "Whatever Works" is a great anthology of women's voices on diverse spiritual paths from major religions, paganism and other traditions. Includes an essay by Pegi Eyers ~ "Our Struggles Are Not The Same: Inspired Solidarity with Turtle Island First Nations Women."
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From the editing team of Trista Hendren and Pat Daly, "Whatever Works" is a great anthology of women's voices on diverse spiritual paths from major religions, paganism and other traditions. Includes an essay by Pegi Eyers ~ "Our Struggles Are Not The Same: Inspired Solidarity with Turtle Island First Nations Women."
Whatever Works: Feminists of Faith Speak
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As a contributor to Whatever Works, my essay "Our Struggles Are Not The Same: Inspired Solidarity with Turtle Island First Nations Women" is a discussion on the interface between those of us in the Settler Society and First Nations women, the original Earthkeepers of Turtle Island. "Speaking truth to power," I examine how our privilege as white feminists has blinded us to the ways First Nations women continue to be marginalized and oppressed by our colonial "habits" of cultural appropriation, knowledge domination, implicit racism, and assuming we are all on the same page in our feminist liberation strategies. In the so-called inclusive spaces we create, the tokenistic, objectifying, or voyeuristic presence of women of colour is just as disempowering as exclusion.
As white women we need to do much much better, to set aside our "white gaze," and embrace social justice work in order to reverse the habitual power relationships. Luckily for us, we have models to follow through solidarity and the Allyship Framework, and it is only by placing ourselves behind the most oppressed and moving them forward will true progress be made. Dismantling the white superiority construct and the intersectional oppressions will allow the sovereignty of the original Earthkeepers of Turtle Island to be reclaimed. Relinquishing our privilege is not such a difficult thing, and our own liberation cannot be achieved without the liberation of all.
Whatever Works is a great collaboration of diverse, multicultural and multifaith women. From the powerhouse editing team of Trista Hendren and Pat Daly (The Girl God) The authors, activists, scholars, academics, mystics, artists, practitioners and priestesses in this anthology speak out on issues that matter, and their "risky conversations" break new ground for feminists and all those empowered by the rise of the Divine Feminine today. With personal narratives that reject the patriarchy of religion, explore individual experiences of the Sacred and the nature of spiritual life, the unpacking of toxic ideologies, and the important analysis of new directions in Goddess Spirituality, Whatever Works is an invaluable guide to the ongoing healing and empowerment of women.
As white women we need to do much much better, to set aside our "white gaze," and embrace social justice work in order to reverse the habitual power relationships. Luckily for us, we have models to follow through solidarity and the Allyship Framework, and it is only by placing ourselves behind the most oppressed and moving them forward will true progress be made. Dismantling the white superiority construct and the intersectional oppressions will allow the sovereignty of the original Earthkeepers of Turtle Island to be reclaimed. Relinquishing our privilege is not such a difficult thing, and our own liberation cannot be achieved without the liberation of all.
Whatever Works is a great collaboration of diverse, multicultural and multifaith women. From the powerhouse editing team of Trista Hendren and Pat Daly (The Girl God) The authors, activists, scholars, academics, mystics, artists, practitioners and priestesses in this anthology speak out on issues that matter, and their "risky conversations" break new ground for feminists and all those empowered by the rise of the Divine Feminine today. With personal narratives that reject the patriarchy of religion, explore individual experiences of the Sacred and the nature of spiritual life, the unpacking of toxic ideologies, and the important analysis of new directions in Goddess Spirituality, Whatever Works is an invaluable guide to the ongoing healing and empowerment of women.