Valarie Kaur has been here before. Kaur “Here” isn’t a place, it’s a feeling; the internal struggle of working to sustain both anger and love
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Feminine spirituality, Mirabai Starr said, is a paradox in a world that prioritizes masculine energy and attitudes. “The feminine inhabits this paradoxical space between form
Carol Jenkins’ grandfather had 15 children — nine girls and six boys — and he sent all his daughters to college. In the 1920s, Jenkins
“Once upon a time, African-American history and American history were studied in two seperate stories,” said Martha Jones, the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor
In the introduction to her book, Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality and a Deeper Connection to Life – In Judaism (After Finally Choosing to
When women become mothers, said Kimberly Churches, chief executive officer of the American Association of University Women, they’re often hit with a “motherhood penalty;” they’re
Equality. “Good event, bad event. Who knows?” Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister framed each expansion of women’s legal rights with this question. While women gained new
While covering the Iowa caucuses earlier this year, Errin Haines, co-founder of The 19th, was surprised that a lot of the same mistakes of the
For her upcoming lecture, just like in her career, Brooke Davis Anderson wants to center artists. Anderson “I’m going to be using the opportunity to
In his concluding remarks to the CHQ Assembly on Friday morning, July 24, Harvard University political philosophy professor Michael J. Sandel spoke about “the need
Teenagers were more independent in some ways in the ‘70s, Mirabai Starr said, and this allowed her to move by herself to the Lama Foundation
American history books look at women's suffrage as a simple story in which a civil group of suffragists asked for the vote through the Declaration
Kimberly Churches doesn’t subscribe to the Golden Rule. Treating people the way you wish to be treated? That’s egotistical, she said — at best. Churches
Harper Black. Indigenous. Colonized. To Lisa Sharon Harper, this is Jesus. “People of African descent and other people who have been colonized around the world,
In many ways, it makes sense that Elaine Weiss is opening Week Five of the CHQ Assembly season, dedicated to celebrating the centennial of women’s
Joan Chittister, Benedictine Sister of Erie, Pennsylvania, said communication is the base of everything that humans do. Chittister “We don't know one another, but by