Pauli Murray: The Legal Visionary Whose LGBT Legacy Shaped Civil Rights And Gender Equality https://shinemycrown.com/pauli-murray-the-legal-visionary-whose-lgbt-legacy-shaped-civil-rights-and-gender-equality/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #PauliMurray #CivilRights #LGBT #GenderEquality #LegalVisionary
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The #FederalGrant awarded to the #PauliMurrayCenter in 2024 has been cancelled. Would someone explain to me how commemorating someone whose innovative legal arguments are the bedrock of all #CivilRights cases/laws in the 20th Century, & the first #AfricanAmerican #Black #multiracial #female #AFAB #priest of the #EpiscopalChurch who was added to our list of saints in 2018, is not anti-Christian or un-American? https://episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/04/24/pauli-murray-center-says-federal-grant-authorized-in-2024-has-been-withdrawn/
Asking all #Episcopalians to contact their Senators, Congresspersons, other elected officials, members of the administration, media & anyone/everyone else about the removal of Pauli Murray, the #Episcopal Church’s first AFAB #lesbian African American priest from the National Park Service website https://episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/03/10/pauli-murray-center-denounces-removal-of-the-priests-biography-from-national-park-service-website/ #PauliMurray #TEC #TheEpiscopalChurch #NationalParkService #women #BIPOC
3/? Insurance guy seemed to like to hear himself talk & felt his opinions, uninformed as they were by his own admission, were significant contributions to the group. The pastry chef has, again, self-admittedly, some very strong opinions about #PauliMurray & has read her works extensively & possibly obsessively. At least she/they were speaking from a position of knowledge. So why did I find pastry chef more irritating than insurance guy? I don’t really have an answer to that. At first blush, we should have had a great deal in common & a similar perspective, although I would guess I am older by a decade, maybe more. They/she is either in the angry phase of feminism or came into the class expecting to be disagreed with & prepared to tell everyone else why their perspective/opinion was wrong. Either way, it was annoying. Neither insurance guy or pastry chef was open to discussion or differing points of view.
2/? Two of the men like to regale the group with stories & opinions. One (insurance) guy tends to dominate the conversation (though he admits he doesn’t know much about #PauliMurray ) The other, a poet professor, actually met her & was at a service she celebrated & preached in NC. The young guy & older lady, didn’t leave much of an impression. All of us are white & #Episcopalian (something the pastry chef pointed out). I’m not sure but I think I’m the only one who isn’t a member of the Cathedral congregation. I don’t know if any of that is important, but it does lend some context to the discussion & my thoughts on it. Based on that description, you’d think we would engage in some robust discussion or at least lively conversation. That wasn’t what happened. The answers to the recommended questions didn’t spark any conversation (this may have been a function of the Dean trying to keep things moving). Insurance guy and pastry chef did most of the talking, which was irritating to me.
Yesterday afternoon, I attended the first session of a 5-week workshop about the life, work, & faith of #PauliMurray While I find the Rev. Dr, a fascinating topic, neither the class nor the participants were quite what I anticipated. I’m not sure they are what I want, which probably means they are something I need. The group is half older folks, half under 60s, & oddly, the table served as an age line. 3 people presented as male. 1 as female. The last 3 were somewhere on the “weird girl” spectrum, presenting similarly (short dark hair, glasses, minimal makeup & clothing that did not define our figures) we also represented very different life paths (pastry chef, dean of the cathedral, nontraditional student) Perhaps I flatter us when I think that Pauli would have approved. The Dean is new to Murray’s #Writing yet running the class. The pastry chef is passionate about her writing though seems self-taught. I love Murray though my exposure is more a study of #theology than anything. 1/?
My daily spiritual practices ebb & flow inconsistently. Lately, they’ve ebbed more than flowed as I’ve been caught up the the “news” and anger at the actions of 🍊 & SpaceBaby. In #Lent I am trying to stop that & and turn away from the anger. In addition to the #ForwardDaybyDay I have taken praying the hours back up using #DailyPrayerforAllSeasons & I am reading #TheDisciplesWay with my sisters. My hope is that diving into the deep end of my faith pool (I’m also doing #EfM & a course on #PauliMurray while reading #NadiabolzWeber ) will help me discern the path God has set me on. I’m not sure what that path is. I certainly don’t know where it leads. What I do know is that I need to be receptive to it. It would be nice if I could recognize it when I see it too. That, however, requires clearer sight & far less anger than I have right now. So I’m diving into study, not as a solution, but as a means of changing my focus & growing my awareness of God in my life & the world.
See our latest blog on Pauli Murray. Murray was a pioneering law and civi rights activist. #PauliMurray #CivilRights
See our latest blog on Pauli Murray. Murray was a pioneering law and civi rights activist. #PauliMurray #CivilRights
#LettersAndPolitics' Mitch Jeserich explores the history of #BirthrightCitizenship, from the #ColoredConventionsMovement to the #14thAmendment, and interviews Pedro Rios, director of the AFSC's US-Mexico Border Program about #Trump's #ExecutiveOrders on #immigration
https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-january-21-2025/
#USpol #USpolitics #ImmigrantRights #UShistory #BlackHistory #PauliMurray #BrownVsBoardOfEd #LatinoHistory #xenophobia #RacializedCommunities #AntiMigrantRacism #MassDeportations
See our latest blog on Pauli Murray. Murray was a pioneering law and civi rights activist. #PauliMurray #CivilRights
See our latest blog on Pauli Murray. Murray was a pioneering law and civi rights activist. #PauliMurray #CivilRights
See our latest blog on Pauli Murray. Murray was a pioneering law and civi rights activist. #PauliMurray #CivilRights
See our latest blog on Pauli Murray. Murray was a pioneering law and civi rights activist. #PauliMurray #CivilRights
See our latest blog on Pauli Murray. Murray was a pioneering law and civi rights activist. #PauliMurray #CivilRights
Ever since I learned about Pauli Murray, from a history PhD student friend of mine (who wanted to be more than a friend, but that's another story), about 10 years ago, I make it a point to post about them during #BlackHistoryMonth.
Yeah, Pauli used she/her pronouns when she was alive, but they also wrote about their acute sense of gender dysphoria, talked about feeling like a man in a woman's body, and even sought (without success) a doctor who would prescribe testosterone to them.
So, yeah, one of Dr. Martin Luthor King's big influences was a member of the LGBTQIA+ community. Pauli Murray also co-founded NOW, and was the first female person to become an Episcopalian minister. They had relationships with men and women, but their relationships with women, particularly "bisexual" women--by which they meant women who were attracted to both their femininity and their masculinity--were the most stable and fruitful for them. They lived an extraordinary life.
And, finally, their queerness is beginning to be recognized by mainstream historical organizations, such as the National Museum of African American History and Culture, from whence this brief article.
#PauliMurray #history #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth2024
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/pauli-murray-lgbtq-historical-figure
@sonjdol I just finished watching the Pauli Murray documentary and now I HAVE to finish the book. So much for getting anything else done this week! #procrastination #AmReading #PauliMurray
Alongside #BettyFriedan, #PauliMurray was a #founder of the #NationalOrganizationofWomen (#NOW), and she #wrote extensively about the importance of #women’s #equality under the law.
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