Introduction to Symposium on Pastoral Power, Clerical State
What this symposium encourage us to reflect on is how authority is maintained, challenged, and revoked in the modern world, and especially in postcolonial settings.
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The Personal and Political Gendering of Black Love
Series: Symposium on Black Dignity
Cleaver’s perspective may exemplify the struggle for freedom from anti-black racist and capitalist domination. But it also stresses a certain kind of domination of Black women by maintaining a black androcentric worldview as freeing.
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The 2018 Fashion Exhibit at New York’s Met: Revealing Catholics to Themselves
The collection offers Catholics a chance to see themselves anew in a contemporary context of spiritual, sexual, and gender fluidity.
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The Ambivalence of Modernity Seen from Abidjan
Modernity is embraced for its scientific and technological wonders, but is also associated with moral decline especially with regard to family and sexual ethics.
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The Pastor as Sexual Object
The modern-day Pentecostal pastor is a widely sought after existential micromanager: a blend of spiritual guide, financial coach, marriage counselor, fashion icon, travel advisor, all-purpose celebrity, and last but not least, the center of an erotic economy.
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Is Christianity Bad for Women?
The short answer, according to the panel, is no. But the conversation left many stones unturned.
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Fighting Transphobia: Analyzing the Pakistani Fatwa on Transgender Marriage
Retaining, reconfiguring, and renouncing traditional embodiments of sex, gender, and sexuality. Read the full article »
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Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality in Ivory Coast
Series: ACI proposal
Sub-Saharan African societies, described as community-oriented, are often compared with Western societies pictured as individualistic. But this simplistic divide can be misleading.
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