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Denmark’s Muslim Feminism and the First Woman Imam at Copenhagen’s Mariam Mosque

By Nancy Graham Holm — 2019

When an ostensibly secular state tests its Muslim citizens by skirting the edge of insult, the result is deeper division and alienation on both sides: the racist right vs. the anti-West Islamists.

Read on www.dailykos.com

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Rebecca Solnit on What Makes Her Hopeful in the Age of Trump from MeToo to Anti-Gun Protests

Extended interview with author and activist Rebecca Solnit. Her acclaimed essay, “Men Explain Things to Me,” is celebrating its tenth anniversary this month.

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Book TV: Rebecca Solnit, “Men Explain Things to Me”

Rebecca Solnit, a contributing editor at Harper’s, talks about her book of essays on such topics as gender inequality, rape, hate crimes, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and gay marriage. She spoke at Moe’s Books in Berkeley, California.

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I Am a Muslim Ask Me Anything? - Muslim Defends Islam Across America

Amazingly 60% of Americans have never spoken to a Muslim about Islam. With the backdrop of violence and terrorism associated with Islam The Review of Religions team traveled across America touring 6 States over 8 weeks asking the public if they had any questions about Islam.

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Women Are the Future of Islam

In this revelatory book, imam Sherin Khankan addresses urgent contemporary issues such as modern women in Islam, radical Islamic groups, Islamic divorce, and fundamentalism, and she describes her own personal journey as a female Muslim activist.

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Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto

The crime of rape sizzles like a lightning strike. It pounces, flattens, destroys. A person stands whole, and in a moment of unexpected violence, that life, that body is gone.

Michelle Bowdler

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The new feminist revolution in religion - Gina Messina-Dysert - TEDxUrsulineCollege

In her witty and powerful talk Gina Messina-Dysert ‘confesses’ her Catholic feminist identity. She discusses the connection between feminism and religion and the ways social media has created a space for women’s voices.

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Slut-Shaming, Whorephobia, and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution

The sexual revolution is unfinished. A sexual double standard between men and women still exists, and society continues to punish bad girls and reward good ones. Until we eliminate good-girl privilege and bad-girl stigma, women will not be fully free to embrace their sexuality.

Meredith Ralston

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What Happens When Women Stop Believing the Lies—Mina Shah—TEDxBocaRaton

Mina believes empowering all women to confidently say “no” to what they do not want, so they can gracefully and unapologetically speak up for what they “do” want, gives them the power to positively impact their own lives, the lives of others, and ultimately the world.

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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in...

Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn

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Women of Wisdom

Women of Wisdom explores and celebrates the spiritual potential of all women, as exemplified by the lives of six Tibetan female mystics.

Tsultrim Allione, Chögyam Trungpa (foreword)

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Gender Issues in Spiritual Life