Hilda and Christy, What does heaven say about your pain, your cries, your violent end? A maniacal energy trapped you sucked you into a wild frenzy of femicidal lust They stole your consciousness you could not see nor walk they stole your joy you could not dance nor laugh they stole you from your very […]
To Mother the world the Voice says, sounding At once as the roar Of a rogue wave And as the silence of disappearing fog It’s a sacred call And the Voice repeats To Mother the world Do you hear it? Echoing yet again From Earth to distant skies So that the unmoved Be moved To […]
I love to write. I write letters. I keep journals. I write creatively and narratively. I write poems and fantasies. And yet, when it comes time to write about my own experience of misogyny, I am at a loss. The task seems too big. Words and phrases dash across my mind: purity culture, rape, sex, […]
Debra Meyers and Mary Sue Barnett (Eds.) – July 2020 This volume explores the historical, theological, sociological, and ethical dimensions of the current issues threatening the two thousand-year-old Roman Catholic Church. The interdisciplinary analysis contained within the volume exposes the destructive convictions and actions of the Roman Catholic clergy that has produced the current institutional […]
Debra Meyers and Mary Sue Barnett have published two anthologies over the last two years that address the crisis our society faces regarding sexual assault. Sexual assault, while an important theme in both projects, was not the only focus. As a result these two projects, Hating Girls (Brill, 2021) and Crisis and Challenge (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020), have reified […]
When Hating Girls: An Intersectional Survey of Misogyny came out in the summer of 2021, it received so much attention that Knowledge Unlatched selected it for pledging as a means to provide free Open Access beginning in 2022. Knowledge Unlatched brings together university libraries from all over the world to fund open access to important books. […]