
Ethical Scholarship: Gender, Religion, & Difference—Women's Studies in Religion Panel 2022
Harvard Divinity School
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What Are the Ingredients That Manage to Resist the Colonial Project?
I was taken to Santa Feres as a child for healing. I have vivid memories, embodied memories of those ritual experiences. Even if they were not formally initiated into the practices, they were conjuring these orisas in spaces that were not considered sacred by Western standards. And so going back to this point about how do these practices trouble all kinds of binaries, right? The sacred and the secular, as well as assumptions we make about how to read space,. How to read bodies and how to read power in real time.
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