Question: How might Mary's parenthood look from transgender points of view?īible study – Luke 2 and (optional) Christian apocryphal texts Question: What did Mary's culture, religion, and political circumstance mean to her? Question: How has Mary lived on in history and moved into new cultural contexts? Question: What approach(es) to Mary are most familiar to you? Most appealing? Most troubling? Weems (16 pages) Learning objective: To get to know Mary and Joseph as multifaceted parents and spiritual companions.

Question: What is your religious background if any, and how has it shaped your view of gender? Other traditions?īible study – Luke 1 and Matthew 1 'Unbegrudged Blessings' from Just a Sister Away: A Womanist Vision of Women's Relationships in the Bible by Renita J. Question: What does patriarchy mean to you in relation to family and parenting?

Week Three – Fathering and Genderqueer Parenting Stories Question: What linkages or differences do you see with your own story of family and parenting? Question: What has come up for you around being single, childless, or childfree in the past? Learning objective: To perceive narrative strands related to family and gender in your life story. Please support these authors' and independent presses' work by buying new whenever you can.ĭo you have a favorite story in the Bible? A story that most disturbs you? Each week's assigned reading can be emailed to you if you can't access it online or at your library. Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God by Kelly Brown Douglasĭon't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities edited by Victoria Law and China Martens (PM Press) My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with DisabilitiesĮdited by Yantra Bertelli and Jennifer Silverman (PM Press) I Asked for Intimacy: Stories of Blessings, Betrayals, and Birthings by Renita J. Reproductive Justice: An Introduction by Loretta J.

Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive JusticeĢnd edition by Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, Loretta Ross, and Elena Gutierrez Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the FrontlinesĮdited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai'a Williams Course learning objectives: -To discern the call to parent -To r econstruct inheritances -To survive and thrive while building Beloved Community (The full syllabus will be emailed to participants.) REQUIRED TEXTS

Undivided Rights by Loretta J. Ross