Thursday, February 23, 2006
Intl Women's day is fast approaching
OK, ladies and gentlemen, get on board with this idea from Rachelle at ThursdayPM:I live in a city where a mega church pastor repeatedly instructs his young congregation to see women as subservient to men…
I practice a religion where systemic dysfunction keeps many women from being who they were truly meant to be….
I dwell on a globe where women and girls are systematically raped and murdered in order to allow the violent and the powerful to be more violent and more powerful…
“If I had a hammer, I would smash patriarchy.” – Maybe in my blog, I’ve found it.
What about you? Where do you live? What do you practice? Do you have a hammer?
March 8th is International Women’s Day. Let’s make it the day we raise our voices, the day we use our hammers to dismantle patriarchy and build something that looks more like kingdom. Furthermore, let’s do it with intelligence, wit, wisdom, and grace – but also without mincing words hiding our emotions, or sugar coating our realities.
Join us is in an intentionally mixed-gender gridblog conversation around patriarchy and how to eliminate it.
1) Post It! use your voice by posting on March 8th.
(If you are in Seattle I would encourage you to post about your experience as a woman in a city where voices like Mark Driscoll at the Mars Hill Church have so much influence — especially over young women and men. Although, all justice realted topics around women and gender equity are welcome.)
2) Name It! For consistency, please title your post: Grid Blog for Int’l Women’s Day: add your subtitle here
3) Illustrate It! With the attached .gif from Sam Brown at explodingdog.com
4) Register It! By sending your link to UrbanAbbess. Rachelle will consolidate all the links into one earth shattering list. Please send links by noon on the 8th.
5) Pass is on! Send this to a blogging pal or post the invite on your blog.
Thank you, in the words of the Indigo Girls, for getting out of bed with your hammer and your nail.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
-Martin Luther King Jr.
Shalom,
Rachelle
I've never heard of Mars Hill church in Seattle. It has nothin' to do with me.
