FLTN Meeting May 2025 Follow-up part two
Feminist Liberation Theologians’ Network
Follow-up 2 after Mid-Year Meeting
June 18, 2025
WATER hosted the annual Mid-year FLTN Gathering via Zoom May 21, 2025. Here is a link to the Follow-up report in case you missed it : https://www.waterwomensalliance.org/may-2025-feminist-liberation-theologians-network-mid-year-meeting/
The BIG NEWS is that the annual gathering of the FLTN will take place on Friday, November 21, 2025, 4-6 PM in Boston in conjunction with the Annual Meetings of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature. It will be in person and virtual.
This meeting will be held at Old South Church at the corner of Dartmouth and Boylston Streets, 645 Boylston St. Boston, MA 02116, at the Copley T stop. It is a 12-minute walk from the Hynes Convention Center; it is a 2-minute T ride on the Green B, C, D lines (inbound).
This location will allow us to have a meeting room with reliable Internet service so that this meeting can be joined from around the world. Old South is a United Church of Christ congregation. We are grateful for their kind hospitality. The building is accessible.
There is no good time for everyone. But this is a) our usual time, b) a reasonable morning hour in Australia, c) a late, but we hope doable, hour in Europe. And of course it will be taped.
Please make plans now to join us in person or on-line.
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Now we are following up on the initial suggestions and proposals from the mid-year meeting. This includes a reading list with recommendations from our young interns and an important article that Lyn Kirkconnell suggested by our colleague Ivone Gebara. See below.
–Some Feminist Works that WATER Interns Are Reading in 2025-
These help to inform our conversations about feminist ethical questions.
1. Mackintosh, Sophie. BLUE TICKET. New York, NY: Anchor Books, 2021, 304 pages.
In an undeniably familiar utopian world, a lottery decides whether or not you will have children. This book tackles free will, social expectation, and the fraught space of motherhood.
2. Alderman, Naomi. THE POWER. New York, NY: Little Brown and Company, 2017, 400 pages.
With a small twist of nature, girls acquire the ability to physically overpower and possibly harm men. This ‘what-if’ lets us explore systems of power.
3. H, Lamya. HIJAB BUTCH BLUES: A MEMOIR. New York, NY: The Dial Press, 2024, 336 pages.
Struggling with Islamophobia and Xenophobia in the U.S. and elsewhere takes the reader on a journey to self-discovery and acceptance, including a challenging feminist and queer interpretation of Islamic scripture.
4. Gay, Roxanne. THE PORTABLE FEMINIST READER. New York, NY: Penguin Classic, 2025, 672 pages.
This feminist compendium lets readers explore the state of American feminism with attention to multicultural, especially, Black, gender-based perspectives.
5. Kuang, R.F. YELLOWFACE. New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 2023, 336 pages.
The question of who should and shouldn’t tell a story is asked when a writer steals her friend’s work and publishes it as her own.
6. Kawakami, Mieko. BREASTS AND EGGS. New York, NY: Europa Editions, 2020, 448 pages.
This book tells a story of womanhood in contemporary Japan, dealing with personal uncertainties and oppression.
7. Han, Kang. THE VEGETARIAN. New York, NY: Hogarth, 2016, 208 pages.
A tale of violent obsession and power, where a woman’s closest family members try to persuade her from becoming a vegetarian by all means necessary.
8. Lalami, Laila. THE DREAM HOTEL: A READ WITH JENNA PICK. New York, NY: Pantheon, 2025, 336 pages.
Exploring developing technology and surveillance, this protagonist gets incarcerated based on the dreams she has.
9. Evaristo, Bernardine. GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER. New York, NY: Grove Press, Black Cat, 2019, 464 pages.
This is a story of women experiencing the intersections of class, sexuality, age, and race in Great Britain, on how community and belonging are needed.
10. Almada, Selva. NOT A RIVER. Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2024, 104 pages.
This work reflects on toxic masculinity, the guilt of one’s actions, and how the decisions we dwell on can hunt us.
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Lyn Kirkconnell suggests this new piece by our colleague Ivone Gebara.
“Nenhuma Nabka parece acordar o mundo”
by Ivone Gebara
“No ‘Nakba’ Seems to Wake up the World”
All good wishes from WATER.
