Charlotte Bunch: Lesbian Feminist Activist with Religious Roots in Conversation with Mary E. Hunt
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
10:00am Pacific/11:00am Mountain/12:00noon Central/1:00pm Eastern
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Co-hosted by LGBTQ Religious Archives Network (LGBTQ-RAN) & Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER)
Join us to hear this incisive conversation about the progression of lesbian feminism and its intersections with religion with global feminist activist Charlotte Bunch and feminist theologian Mary E. Hunt. This dialogue will explore Bunch’s early religious activism and her analysis of how religion influenced—and was challenged by—LGBTQ activism and lesbian feminism, in particular. Hunt and Bunch will reflect on how LGBTQ and religious experiences evolved in global settings. Together they will reflect on where we are today as much of what we have achieved is threatened and discuss how we can collaborate across differences to bring insights from faith perspectives that might be helpful to the doing of justice.
Charlotte Bunch, Distinguished Professor Emerita in Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, was the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership. She has been an activist in feminist, LGBTQ, and other human rights movements for over 50 years. She was a leader of the Global Campaign for recognition of women’s rights as human rights as well as of other national and international feminist initiatives.
Mary E. Hunt, Ph.D is a feminist theologian. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER). She writes, lectures, and organizes on justice-focused issues.
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Women and Religion | Feminism | Author/editor | Hunt, Mary E.