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Welcome Back to those who were gone for January - and for those who
just took a little break after Jan. term,<br>
<br>
I know it's early, but I wanted to let you know about 2 great programs
coming up in a couple weeks:<br>
<b><big><br>
Wednesday, Feb. 11th: Panel Discussion: "How Different Religions
Address LGBTQ Experiences"<br>
7:00 pm, Memorial Hall Lounge, UMass</big></b><br>
<br>
Panelists
who identify both as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer
(LGBTQ) and as a member of a particular religious community will speak
about the intersections of their religious and sexual/gender
identities. They will share the tensions they have experienced and how
they have reconciled their faith with their LGBTQ identity.<br>
<br>
Panelists include:<br>
-Faisal Alam, Founder of Al-Fatiha, an international LGBT Muslim
organization<br>
-David Dunn Bauer, Rabbi of the Jewish Community of Amherst<br>
-Kathleen Boucher, Researcher on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Catholics<br>
-Chris McMillan, Co-Director of the Multicultural Resource Center,
Amherst College<br>
-Winnie Nazarko, Teacher at the Insight Meditation Society, Barre, MA<br>
<br>
Free and open to the public.<br>
<br>
<br>
<b><big>Thursday, Feb. 12th: Faisal Alam, "Hidden Voices: The Lives of
LGBT Muslims"<br>
7:00 pm, Main Lecture Hall, Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire College</big></b><br>
<br>
“The
Lives of LGBT Muslims” aims to highlight the many struggles and
challenges facing sexual and gender minorities within the Muslim world
and to examine the complex intersection of Islam, sexuality and gender.
With more than 1.5 billion followers Islam is considered to be the
fastest growing religion in the world today, yet the Western world
continues to view it with skepticism and uncertainty. While aiming to
dispel common stereotypes and myths about Islam, this presentation will
also explore the history of the queer Muslim movement in the United
States and the suppression of LGBT rights around the world under the
guise of the so-called “war on terror.”<br>
<br>
Free and open to the public.<br>
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Hope to see youth there! Please contact me if you have any questions.<br>
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more deeply immersed I became in the thinking of the
prophets, the more powerfully it became clear to me what the lives of
the
prophets sought to convey: that morally speaking there is no limit to
the
concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings. It also became
clear
to me that in regard to cruelties committed in the name of a free
society, some
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