[photograph of Mary Daly is from here]
With thanks to Heart at Women's Space. This is a cross post.
Mary Daly Memorial Service: May 1, 2010The power of your presence is requested at a memorial. All are welcome. Re-membering Mary Daly
A celebration of her life and work will take place on Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 2 P.M. at: The Auditorium of Washburn Hall
Episcopal Divinity School
99 Brattle
Artemis March, PhD, MBA, Vassar graduate, and former Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, has been evolving her own brand of narrative nonfiction for twenty years without realizing it was preparing her to write this book. A sociologist by training, she first got into the storytelling business at the Harvard Business School
[image is from here]
Audre Lorde, for over twenty-five years, has been a primary spiritual teacher in my life, a guide, role model, and exemplar of radical feminist being and practice. Her 66th birthday was on February 18th.
What follows next is from *here*.
Know Your History[Herstory-- changed by Julian]: Audre LordeLGBT, NewsBites, Society & Culture — By Brooke Murphy on February 22,
"[T]he hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal."
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Sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on April 30, 1967:
A Real Audio file
[image of a woman and baby is from here]
[Revised Monday, 18 January 2010 ECD]
Can you tell me this woman's name and the name of this sweet child? Do you really want to know? Do you know what she's saying to the baby? Just look in her eyes.
I've had that look on my face. (I've seen it in photos!) I know the exact gesture; that very specific instruction in her eyes. I've seen those pictures of
[photograph of Mary Daly is from here]
I hope more people read her work and study what she says about patriarchy and its values, dynamics, lies, and distortions. I hope people reading her work brings forth more activism, particularly from men, who come to understand that it is our job to challenge male supremacy and men's domination of women. I hope it encourages men to not drain the energies
[this photograph of Mary Daly was found here]
Where's Mary Daly?
Perhaps she will let us know one day.
Rest in Peace, Warrior Wommon.
I just found out from a white radical lesbian feminist friend that Mary had been quite ill for a while in such a way that makes her passing something of a relief to those who knew of her condition. So with that, let us welcome her into the next realms of wisdom.
[this photograph of Mary Daly is from her website, linked to below.]
I just found this out. I am shocked. This is where I found out the news of Mary Daly's death. Here's a link to her website: http://www.marydaly.net/
What follows is from here.
:( Jan. 4th, 2010 at 12:11 PM
So, I
[This image of Alice Walker is from here, and the photographer is Andrea Roth.]
An excerpt:
As your elder, I support you in your effort to try to crash out of a life that you had outgrown. And I feel compassion for your loved ones who must be as confused and hurt as you feel yourself. It is easy to see how hurt you are feeling by looking into your eyes, which I have recently done (via You Tube)
