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Anne Linstatter
@annelinstatter.bsky.social
writing/reading on women & religion ~ working for equal rights ~ Christian recovering the Jewish roots of my faith
427 to 1 - House of Reps votes to release Epstein files. Then Senate votes YES too "by unanimous consent" to avoid painful roll call. #Trump has no choice but to sign bill outing files on billion-dollar international sex-trafficking ring. We're again in 1974 watching the downfall of Richard Nixon
November 18, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Beverly Hills Community Alliance” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS Beverly Hills Community Alliance · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...
www.mobilize.us
June 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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One medieval woman changed the way that people pictured Christmas...

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December 29, 2024 at 2:53 PM
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Joan of Arc's signature & remarkable document. The no tradwife here.

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December 29, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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"The church floor has a third inscription that says, “Remember Primilla and Cyriaca and Dorothea, and moreover also Chreste.” No indication is given why they should be remembered...At the very least, the inscription testifies to the prominent role of women in the early church." tinyurl.com/yc8zb4zh
Free from Prison, Ancient Church Floor Comes to US - Christianity Today
“One of the most groundbreaking archaeological discoveries since the Dead Sea Scrolls” shows the faith of early Christians.
www.christianitytoday.com
January 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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This thought-provoking article calls for thanks to egalitarian theologians, historians, scholars & authors who remind us of those silenced before us, & who bring new perspectives & scholarship that challenge age old, & new (awful) versions of "biblical” patriarchy.
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Women tell other women that they are not crazy, dumb or inferior: a 600 year history. Part 1.
"Its not you, it's the system." - every generation of women. (voice over: "but their words were not recorded or shared. Leaving the next generation to wake up to the same realization on their own")
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January 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Who inspires you to #resist #patriarchy #sexism #misogyny #racism #injustice #silence Maya Angelou inspired &endorsed our first independent documentary about women healing from & speaking out about their childhood sexual abuse -pre #Metoo mov't. #Blackhistorymonth youtu.be/qviM_GnJbOM?...
'Still I Rise' by Maya Angelou (1987, Live performance)
YouTube video by Literature Today - and Yesterday...
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February 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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So worth a bookmark! Powerful testimony by Dr. Delores Williams & her unfolding, courageous journey to discovering her identity first through feminism, but ultimately by embracing womanism. "I am a black woman". Be inspired at such a time as this. #blackhistorymonth m.youtube.com/watch?v=hltJ...
Religion and the Feminist Movement Conference - Panel IV: Delores S. Williams
YouTube video by Harvard Divinity School
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February 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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😳Crucial history. A robust evangelical feminist movement was at work, too, soon silenced by strategic evangelical backlash- seeds of hyper patriarchy today. Gloria Steinem's front row seat to a piece of this history, lens on Phyllis Schlafly & others. @gloriasteinem.bsky.social
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When the Republican Party First Abandoned Women
By Gloria Steinem
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February 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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If surprised by #Christiannationalism you haven't been paying attention. Decades at work. Of course oppression of women & girls is embedded in extreme gender role theologies now normalized @julieingersoll.bsky.social warned of all. Bookmark deep dive👇. Don't be silenced.

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February 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Outsiders don’t appreciate just how extreme the patriarchy is on the right. I have attended conferences where speakers and participants actively promote a return to male-only voting...; the elimination of...effective forms of birth control... @katherinestewart.bsky.social
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'Money, Lies, and God': The Rise of Christian Nationalism and the Battle for American Democracy - Ms. Magazine
Katherine Stewart calls Christian nationalism a coordinated, anti-democratic movement of disinformation, authoritarianism and religious extremism.
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February 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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It was easier to silence women & men who believed in biblical equality before the Internet...
"It's easy to believe that the debates about gender roles in evangelical culture are a recent development...it's clear the thx debate goes back centuries"..
freemethodistfeminist.com/2011/06/23/d...
Debating Biblical Gender Roles Then and Now
It’s easy to believe that the debates about gender roles in evangelical culture are a recent development. Yet, looking through Free Methodist Magazine archives from over a hundred years ago, it’s c…
freemethodistfeminist.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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During 2nd wave feminism, a rising evangelical Christian feminist movement, led by both conservatives & progressives, unnerved networks of evangelicals who joined to create a sweeping backlash. They planted the seeds for the advance of evangelical patriarchy we see today.
February 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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"... the debate raging in the Black evangelical Christian community centered around whether women had the authority to teach and preach... what truly burns me to my core is the glaring lack of representation of Black women in these spaces…" -Sheva Stephens Knott
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Jus Thinkin'
By Sheva Stephens Knott
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February 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Remember the first wave Christian feminists. They were faithful and passionate taking a stand for women's biblical equality, prison reform, ending slavery, trafficking of girls and more. Get inspiration from their courage and challenging work in the face of oppression and injustice.
February 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Must read, was eye-opening by @julieingersoll.bsky.social Evangelical Christian Women : War Stories in the Gender Battle. Committed evangelicals who also resisted accepted gender roles. Written 2003, would love to hear from these women NOW! tinyurl.com/yr9fkvvn
February 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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#History Christian feminist movement 60s-80s-this book helped the rise of Christian feminist movement in 60s-80s AND a reason for the fierce backlash by evangelical patriarchy leaders to silence them. Seeds also for extreme rise of biblical patriarchy we see today (&some of the same guys involved).
March 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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As some denominations still debate women in leadership, the very walls of our churches offer proof that women have been leaders from the very beginning.

In honor of women's history month, here's an article I wrote last year about discovering them.

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The Witness of Women Is Written on the Walls - Christianity Today
I needed female heroes, and I found them in ancient churches.
christianitytoday.com
March 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her -- NO! Her student visa was cancelled and she was arrested for being one of four students who signed an op-ed in the student newspaper last March speaking out on the genocide in Gaza.
Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her
A Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University has been detained by U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents without explanation, her lawyer said Wednesday.
apnews.com
March 27, 2025 at 4:15 AM
TB meds, AIDS meds, food, and midwife care have ended in places like South Sudan and Kenya--because Trump & Musk cancelled the work of the USAID (Agency for International Development). May the courts force Trump and Musk to restore this life-saving work. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/o...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article)
The columnist Nicholas Kristof on his recent trip to South Sudan.
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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The deal to spring Eric Adams reveals Trump's real agenda: Make America Corrupt Again.

My column for @rollingstone.com ...

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Trump's Plan Comes Into Focus: Make America Corrupt Again
Donald Trump’s deal to drop charges against Mayor Eric Adams is part of a broader effort to legalize bribery and covert foreign influence.
www.rollingstone.com
February 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM