Required classes are over for me now — apparently I am now officially EBTD (Everything But The Dissertation) or ABD (All But Dissertation), depending on…
Continue ReadingDeepening thoughts on Griffin, women, & Nature
I’ve had another professor write to me about the Ecofeminism independent study class I took last semester. Her comments were regarding my review of Griffin’s…
Continue ReadingGaia’s Gift: Earth, Ourselves and God after Copernicus by Anne Primavesi
This book was both a surprise and a delight; I very much enjoyed the reading. Gaia’s Gift is ordinarily presented as simply an analysis of…
Continue Reading“The Earth Path” by Starhawk
I had to work my way slowly through Starhawk’s The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature; I find myself wishing this…
Continue Reading“Ending Violent Crime Cheaply & Permanently” by Medicine Story, pt. 2
In a fascinating storytelling style, Medicine Story shares the startlingly successful program he and various other Native American elders created to assist incarcerated men. Initially…
Continue Reading“Ending Violent Crime Cheaply & Permanently” by Medicine Story, pt. 1
Ending Violent Crime Cheaply & Permanently: A Vision of A Society Free of Violence by Manitonquat (Medicine Story) is an astonishing little book — one…
Continue Reading“The Next American Revolution” by Boggs & Kurashige
After reading The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs & Scott Kurashige, I confess my primary reaction was a…
Continue Reading“Feminism & the Mastery of Nature” by Val Plumwood
This is an astonishingly “chewy” book! I’m impressed, as well as greatly enjoying Plumwood’s fascinatingly erudite, logical — and yet, I feel, still thoughtfully spiritual…
Continue Reading“Unbowed: A Memoir” by Wangari Maathai, pt. 2
Being a child of the US, I’ve only seen online, rather than face-to-face, the types of deeply vicious and misogynistic attacks which Maathai describes: [C]ertain…
Continue Reading“Unbowed: A Memoir” by Wangari Maathai, pt. 1
There is a phrase that’s apparently become popular on Twitter conversations where someone wishes to point out unconscious privilege: they state that the issue under…
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