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  • I come from a long line of strong Black women. My grandmother used to share stories about how she caused “trouble” in town when a white man hired her to put up the displays in his store window. At that time, all the Black women in town worked as domestics in the homes of white ladies, or in the...
    Reflection | By Rayla D. Mattson | February 5, 2020 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Anti-Oppression, Direct Experience, Friendship, Generations, Integrity, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Race/Ethnicity, Truth, Women
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  • This story is great to be acted out by four women (of applicable ages for each direction) around a large bowl/vessel....
    Story | By Katie Sivani Gelfand | January 7, 2020 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Direct Experience, Earth-Centered, Generations, Imagination, Listening, Nature, Sacred, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism, Water Communion, Women
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  • Surviving is made of the shadows of the grinding stone.
    Poetry | By Julián Jamaica Soto | November 1, 2019 | From Spirit
    Tagged as: Women, Work
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  • Surviving is made of the shadows of the grinding stone.
    By Julián Jamaica Soto | November 1, 2019 | From Spirit
    Tagged as: Women, Work
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  • Karen Uhlenbeck, a Unitarian Universalist, made history this year when she became the first woman to win the prestigious Abel Prize for mathematics.
    By Andrea Dulanto | June 1, 2019 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Science, Women
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  • I saw a woman surrounded by the pressures to conform to adulthood, being the adult she always wanted to be when she was a child. She was as God made her, not who everyone else wanted her to be.
    Reflection | By Nathan Ryan | March 20, 2019 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Body, Children, Direct Experience, God, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Women
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  • An anger that burns without consuming can be the fire and the energy for action, for organizing, for creating justice.
    By Susan Frederick-Gray | October 6, 2018 | From Ideas
    Tagged as: Justice, Politics, Reproductive Justice, Social Justice, Voting Rights, Women
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  • It has been a difficult week in the news, and as always, we have silent personal struggles in the midst of everything else. And so I invite you into a spirit of prayer....
    Prayer | By Lisa Bovee-Kemper | September 28, 2018 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Body, Brokenness, Healing, Violence, Vulnerability, Women
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  • I trusted the woman at the pharmacy to be capable of hearing hard truth. Bless her wounded heart with its internalized misogyny. She just wants women to love and support each other. Thank you. Me too.
    Reflection | By Misha Sanders | September 26, 2018 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Anger, Anti-Oppression, Body, Direct Experience, Fat Liberation, Men, Mothers, Self-Care, Violence, Women
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  • The Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism–led project assembled self-care packages for people fleeing domestic violence.
    By Elaine McArdle | September 1, 2018 | From UU World
    Tagged as: General Assembly, Health, Violence, Women
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  • In Nicaragua, women cultivate power and share their wisdom with UU feminists from the United States.
    By Air Nonken Rhodes | June 1, 2018 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Abundance, Economy, Education, Global Opportunities, Multiculturalism, Nature, Politics, Women
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  • LEGO set features Unitarian Universalist astronomer Nancy Grace Roman.
    By Sonja L. Cohen | June 1, 2018 | From Ideas
    Tagged as: Culture, Science, UU Identity, Women
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  • In a few moments, there will be a splendid party celebrating (name)’s passage into young womanhood. At that time, she will receive a series of traditional gifts, symbolizing the duties as well as the privileges of her new status....
    Ritual | By Kendyl L. R. Gibbons | March 20, 2018 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Children, Coming-of-Age, Friendship, Quinceañera, Relationships, Women
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  • Welcome to this sacred celebration of emerging adulthood. We are gathered today to rejoice and bear witness as (name) and her parents and friends mark her transition from childhood to the estate of a young woman. The quinceañera tradition has its roots in the ancient cultures of Central and South...
    Opening | By Kendyl L. R. Gibbons | March 20, 2018 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Bridging, Children, Coming-of-Age, Generations, Growth, International, Quinceañera, Women
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  • We can decide not to let our culture be defined by toxic masculinity.
    By Emily Wright-Magoon | March 1, 2018 | From Life
    Tagged as: Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Men, Sexual Boundaries in Congregations, Sexuality, Sexuality Education, Violence, Women
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  • Remembering to breathe and to breathe deeply and then once more, to take the breath in and let the breath out, we pause, poised as we are, at a point of risking, at a possibility of courage: #metoo. Risking vulnerability Risking pain Risking being known Risking being not believed Risking being...
    Prayer | By Karen G. Johnston | January 23, 2018 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Body, Courage, Direct Experience, Gender, Healing, Mothers, Sexuality, Vulnerability, Wholeness, Women
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  • I’m not the same person who stood in that tattoo parlor eleven years ago. Still, I don’t for a minute regret being permanently marked with this snapshot in time, of my wounds and my hope.
    Reflection | By Mandie McGlynn | January 20, 2018 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Body, Children, Direct Experience, Discernment, Humanism, Secular, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Women
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  • Only speaking out when one has skin in the game isn’t activism; it’s just self-preservation.
    By Marchaé Grair | January 19, 2018 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Activism, Anti-Oppression, Gender, Gender Justice, Justice, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries, Women
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  • Denise T. Davidoff among Unitarian Universalist Association’s most active volunteer leaders, chairing board from 1993 to 2001 and serving in many roles over 50 years.
    By Tom Stites | December 7, 2017 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Leadership, UU History, UUA Officers, Women
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  • "How complicated it is to break silence: to open all of the secrets in all of our broken hearts. But silence does break; truth seeks the light. We're unraveling silence because we have determined that our power with one another is greater than the power someone once had over us."
    Reflection | By Erika Hewitt | November 15, 2017 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Brokenness, Direct Experience, Gender, Healing, Humanism, Men, Power, Silence, Truth, Violence, Women
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