I love to share guest posts on my substack. This new piece, “Love, Friendship, and Scholarship” comes from Dr. Susan M. Shaw who is professor at Oregon State University and co-author of Intersectional Theology. In 1983 Maria Lugones and Elizabeth Spelman called for friendship “as the only appropriate and understandable motive” for white feminists to engage in academic endeavor with Feminists of Color. They added: “. . . from within friendship you may be moved by friendship to undergo the very difficult task of understanding the text of our cultures by understanding our lives in communities. This learning calls for circumspection, for questioning of yourselves and your roles in your own culture . . . it demands recognition that you do not have the authority of knowledge; it requires coming to the task without ready-made theories to frame our lives.”
Love, Friendship, and Scholarship
Love, Friendship, and Scholarship
Love, Friendship, and Scholarship
I love to share guest posts on my substack. This new piece, “Love, Friendship, and Scholarship” comes from Dr. Susan M. Shaw who is professor at Oregon State University and co-author of Intersectional Theology. In 1983 Maria Lugones and Elizabeth Spelman called for friendship “as the only appropriate and understandable motive” for white feminists to engage in academic endeavor with Feminists of Color. They added: “. . . from within friendship you may be moved by friendship to undergo the very difficult task of understanding the text of our cultures by understanding our lives in communities. This learning calls for circumspection, for questioning of yourselves and your roles in your own culture . . . it demands recognition that you do not have the authority of knowledge; it requires coming to the task without ready-made theories to frame our lives.”