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Saudi Activist Manal Al-Sharif Freed from Prison

By Joanna Brooks

…ile, SaudiWomen2Drive has established its own YouTube channel with several videos of Saudi women driving. The Twittersphere dances with reports: Women spotted driving in Riyadh! Women spotted driving in Jeddah! The original video of Manal and her camerawoman Saudi feminist Wajeha al-Huwaider are now available with English subtitles. In it, the women dialogue about the practical impossibilities and blows to dignity the driving ban means for the dai…

How Will We Teach About Sikhism After the Tragedy?

By Laurie Patton

…one among so many mass shootings in the U.S., it is time for us to build a new paradigm for education about religious minorities: one of partnership and alliance. It is no longer enough to be mired in an endless, fruitless debate about the relative status of insiders and outsiders. Rather, we should be asking a different question: How can we help each minority community alleviate the cultural tax that it so often has to pay in the wake of a traged…

How Anne Frank Turned Up At Occupy

By Peter Manseau

…in love with an Anne who has somehow survived the war and made her way to New York. He even imagines writing home to his parents: “Dear Folks: Anne is pregnant, and happier, she says, than she ever thought possible again.” More recent treatments of Anne Frank as a character prove that, unlikely as it may seem, impregnating a child martyr was not the furthest the literary assault on the cult of her memory would go. Just a few weeks after Magnum’s…

Are They Jewish Bones? Battle for Separation of Synagogue & State in Israel

By Shalom Goldman

…tablishment’ of the Chief Rabbinate. The editors of the English-language Jerusalem Post, known for their support of the current government—and of earlier governments of the Israeli Right—seemed to echo opposition leader’s Tzipi Livni’s sentiments when they wrote on March 29 that “the time has come to do away with the Chief Rabbinate. This is the only conclusion any clear-headed observer, concerned about the way Judaism is being represented in the…

Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n the day from Hakan, an activist with the KAOS GL organization. Also, the New York Times reported from Istanbul on the story of Mohammed, a 26-year old Iraqi: For Mohammed, an Iraqi civil engineer, the cruelest experience of his life was not when his father tortured him for being gay. It was not when Islamic State extremists took over the 26-year-old’s hometown in northern Iraq, forcing him to flee to Turkey. Or when he says he was almost raped a…

Jay Bakker on LGBT Justice and the Demands of Grace

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…id you don’t even have to become more religious or believe more, just accept that you are accepted and allow that to transform you. I’ve found that to be true. I’ve learned to trust God in these situations and I’ve seen the power of grace….

Condemnation, Condolences in Wake of Orlando Massacre and More

By Peter Montgomery

…e some pro-LGBT rulings recently. Human Rights Watch also responded to the ruling: “The ruling is a setback, but it does not change the Kenyan government’s obligations under international human rights law,” said Neela Ghoshal, senior researcher on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights at Human Rights Watch. “Kenyan authorities should abandon these abusive practices and, if domestic law permits them, the law should be changed.” Lithu…

Why Does the Pope Love This Trippy Dystopian Novel from 1907?

By Gordon Haber

…ophesy? A catalogue of early 20th century right-wing fears. In Lord of the World, religion has been subsumed to a kind of hyper-rational communism, the professions have been nationalized, and euthanasia and suicide are legal. Worst of all, Esperanto is the official language of Britain. Julian Felsenburgh, a man of great charisma and linguistic ability, then rises from U.S. senator (from Vermont, no less) to President of the World. He encourages po…

Barbara Ehrenreich’s Bright-Sided Explores the Dark Side of Positive Thinking

By Michelle Goldberg

…made a phenomenon out of The Secret. “[N]ow there is a new role model for New York’s former Carrie Bradshaws—young women who are vegetarian, well versed in self-help and New Age spirituality, and who are finding a way to make a living preaching to eager audiences, mostly female,” reported the Times. One 31-year-old member of this eager audience is quoted praising her spiritual tutor Gabrielle Bernstein, a 29-year-old former nightclub publicist wh…

Global LGBT Recap: Promise and Peril in the New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…oncern about LGBT Equality in a Post-Mandela Nation Joe Morgan of Gay Star News reported on New Year’s Day that some South African activists are concerned that the legacy of Nelson Mandela, which included the groundbreaking inclusion of sexual orientation in the Constitution, could be at risk in his absence. President Jacob Zuma, as well as several other representatives in South Africa, have made homophobic comments in the past. ‘When I was growin…