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As a Black woman, I know firsthand that owning your narrative isn’t always easy. I've had to navigate prejudice while keeping my head held high. The rules have often been different for me.
Reclaiming is a tradition in neopagan witchcraft, aiming to combine the Goddess movement with feminism and political activism (in the peace and anti-nuclear movements). Reclaiming was founded in 1979, in the context of the Reclaiming Collective (1978–1997), by two Neopagan women of Jewish descent, Starhawk and Diane Baker, in order to explore ...
The name Selena Montgomery was inspired by Bewitched actress Elizabeth Montgomery, who played both Samantha on the hit 1950s sitcom as well as her evil cousin Serena, according to the New York Times.
Turner case and released her book with the title, Know My Name: A Memoir, on September 24, 2019. [4] [5] [6] She first began work on the book in 2017. [7] [8] [9] The book was an attempt by Miller to reappropriate her narrative identity and describe the trauma she went through, after being referred to in the press as "unconscious intoxicated ...
Narrative identity has been explored in the stories of incarcerated individuals. For example, narratives have been used to understand the conversion experience among prisoners. [55] Through these narratives, prisoner converts have been able to integrate their negative self (the one who committed the crime) into their larger sense of self.
Amid anti-Asian racism during the pandemic, Asian American Buddhists are challenging white-dominant narratives of Buddhism and re-centering Asian American identity in what it means to be Buddhist ...
The oppositional gaze is a term coined by bell hooks the 1992 essay The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators that refers to the power of looking. According to hooks, an oppositional gaze is a way that a Black person in a subordinate position communicates their status. hooks' essay is a work of feminist film theory that discusses the male gaze, Michel Foucault, and white feminism in film ...
Starhawk believes that the Earth is a living entity, and that faith-based activism can reconnect oneself to basic human needs. She posits core religious values of community and self-sacrifice as important to eco-pagan movements, as well as the broader environmental justice movement.