Sisterly Conversations 2010:Honoring Our Diversities

VIRGINIA R. MOLLENKOTT AND MARY E. HUNT

September 10-12, 2010
Fri 6:30 dinner thru Sun lunch
Cost $335


Please call for information as event is almost full.  

Each year we gather at Kirkridge as lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender women and our allies. This year we will focus on honoring our community’s great diversities: of gender identities, lifestyles, political outlooks, religious and spiritual practices, races/colors, health issues, ages, levels of "outness," etc.

Our plenary and small-group conversations will be stimulated by a presentation by Mary Hunt ("Bridging Women’s Cultural Differences"); a presentation by Virginia Mollenkott ("Biblical Insights about the Otherness Within Our Oneness’); a panel of participants on "Overcoming Our fear of – or Disgust With – People with Different Beliefs and Behaviors"; and a panel of participants on "Success Stories About Honoring Diversities."

There will also be self-introductions, singing, free-time for games or hiking; talent-sharing; a party with refreshments and dancing; opportunity for private conversation with Hunt and/or Mollenkott; interactive worship.

Dr. Mary E, Hunt is the co-founder and co-director of WATER (the Women’s Alliance for theology, Ethics, and Ritual). Active in the Women-Church Movement and advisor to the Women’s Ordination Conference, Mary is fluent in Spanish and worked for several years for women’s/human rights in Argentina. She has authored or edited many books and articles, including Fierce tenderness: A Feminist Theology of Friendship. She lives in Silver Spring, MD., with her partner Diann L. Neu and their daughter, Catherine Fei Min Hunt-Neu.

Dr. Virginia R. Mollenkott is the founding mother of sisterly Conversations, Professor emeritus of English at William Paterson University, and the author or editor of thirteen books, most notably Is the Homosexual My Neighbor?; The Divine Feminine; Omnigender; and Sensuous Spirituality. With her partner Suzannah Tilton, she co-grandmothers three grandgirls: Miranda, Sarina, and Corrine Mollenkott.

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Scholarship assistance is available, if needed, from the McNeill/Mollenkott fund. Please phone Director Jean Richardson at 610-599-4604.

KIRKRIDGE RETREAT AND STUDY CENTER

2495 Fox Gap Road, Bangor, PA 18013-6028, 610-588-1793 . Fax: 610-588-8510 www.kirkridge.org