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For Trump Admin, Immigration is About Race and Identity

By Aryeh Cohen

…Bannon’s remarks become clearer. The “culture” that Bannon refers to is a European Christian culture. In order to ensure that the United States continues to have that “culture and reason for being,” borders must be sealed. It has also come to light that Bannon is a fan of the French novel The Camp of the Saints, which has been described as “racist in the literal sense of the term. It uses race to describe the book’s characters and describes the t…

Trump Considers Pulling USA Out Of Human Rights Council; Indonesian President Blames Democracy For Rise of Militant Islamism; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…loved ones.” The annual general assembly and conference of the Network of European LGBTIQ* Families Associations will be held in Naples in March. Honduras: Life and death in one of the world’s most dangerous cities The Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers reported on the deadly violence facing LGBT activists in San Pedro Sula, one of the world’s most dangerous cities. Activists say that police and soldiers are often a bigger threat than the street g…

Religion and Gender Trouble in the Black Arts: Remembering Toni Cade Bambara’s The Black Woman

By Josef Sorett

…s volume The Black Woman: An Anthology (1970), for example, revealed how a number of black women engaged religion to call attention to the gender politics of the Black Arts. With The Black Woman, Bambara, a writer, filmmaker and teacher, helped ensure that the contributions of Black Arts women would not be erased or overlooked. Importantly, as Farah Jasmine Griffin has observed, the book brought into conversation two discourses commonly considered…

Trump’s Inaugural Address Gets an “F” in American Civil Religion

By Spencer Dew

…Not only does such popular sovereignty not look much like the old-school, European variety—which gets shorthanded as “tyranny” in our founding documents—it is also an ideal that, in application, has some hitches. Our democratic system reveals itself, often, to be less than perfectly democratic—consider the power of executive orders by the president, the nonalignment of electoral college and popular vote counts, or the sovereign decision-making ab…

Authoritarian Populism Vs Human Rights, The Campaign Against ‘Gender Ideology’ and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ian, Muslim and African states, has recently begun attracting support from European countries. The report also addresses the use of “gender ideology” as an umbrella term for anti-SRHR effort globally (citations removed): Antichoice actors are part of a wider anti-gender movement, which gathers groups opposed to feminism, LGBT rights, gender studies, gender mainstreaming, the fight against gender-based violence as well as contraception, abortion, s…

6 Years Later, Arab Spring May Only Have Just Begun

By Haroon Moghul

…were only stopped by a combination of NATO intervention and the promise of European integration. What happens now? Those who supported Trump may be emboldened by his rhetoric against Muslims; in the Balkans, that may mean renewed war. Elsewhere supporters may come to regret their enthusiasm. Despite the triumphalism with which Israel’s far-right greets Trump’s election and cabinet selections, the long-term consequences of Israeli irredentism are n…

‘Catholic Feminist’ Isn’t an Oxymoron, and Other Tales From a Beleaguered Tradition

By Celia Wexler

…and out of homeless shelters. Another, a Belgian-born academic, found her European Catholicism marginalized at that bastion of American Catholicism, Notre Dame. A former nun married to a former priest now finds God in the work she does as a psychotherapist. In one way or another, each woman struggled with the institutional church and its relationship to her own spirituality and Catholic identity. They taught me that as Catholics, women do not sur…

It’s Not Climate Change, It’s Climate Chaos: Lessons from COP22

By Donna Schaper

…ange is eliminated—which it has likely been by the American election. “The European Union proudly welcomes the cooperation of non states in efforts to abate climate chaos,” proclaimed an expensive-looking poster put out by the EU early in the meeting. A second change is in language. People here are referring to climate chaos rather than climate change. Climates are always changing – and the language of climate change has unintentionally caused the…

Donald Trump Scares LGBT People Worldwide and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ent. More detail and historical background is available at the blog of the European Journal of International Law. The role of South Africa in current UN disputes over LGBT human rights is being disputed. South Africa had been the sponsor of a key 2011 resolution at the Human Rights Council, but has since stepped back. Mamba Online reported his week that human rights experts believe the South African government is saying one thing and doing another…

Revisiting Philip Roth’s 2004 Novel that Predicted the Trump Election

By Michael Schulson

…th-the-author assumes that American fascism would only partly resemble its European sibling. Instead of demonizing its chosen Other, the Lindbergh government diagnoses Jews as imperfectly assimilated. Then it sets out to fix the problem. The program to help Jews assimilate forces its targets into increasingly vulnerable and humiliating positions. Some flee these policies, but many more cooperate, grudgingly. A few become active promoters. Virtuall…