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Traprock Booklet KEEPERS OF THE FIRE: Dialogue to Change Sexism and Foster Gender Reconciliation A Conversation-Starter Booklet from the Common Threads Project Traprock Center for Peace and Justice by Rev. Sarah Pirtle, MEd. HOW THIS BOOKLET CAME TO BE Following a lifelong interest in mending sexism, the author collects meaningful anecdotes, effective methods to foster dialogue, and supportive online resources. This booklet was first released at the Women’s March in Greenfield, MA on January 21 when 2500 people gathered locally. Sweeping the world, half a million joined in Washington D.C. while world-wide four million in over 600 “sister marches” came together internationally. We are grateful to the Markam-Nathan Foundation for Social Justice for their support for social-activist projects in Western Massachusetts which made possible the printing and free distribution of this booklet. This is the second conversation starter booklet from the Common Threads Project. Read on-line or download for free: traprock.org Traprock Center for Peace and Justice provides leadership to end war and address environmental and justice issues nationally and locally in the Pioneer Valley. Traprock was founded in 1978 as a center for the study of non-violence. Under first director Randy Kehler, Traprock took national leadership in the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. Today Pat Hynes is President of the Traprock Board. How to contact Traprock: Find the website at traprock@org. Email contact: [email protected]. Traprock’s address: P.O. Box 1201, Greenfield MA 01302 How to telephone a Board member: (413) 522- 8892 You are invited to send additions, amendments and anecdotes to the author: Sarah Pirtle, director of the Common Threads project. Email: [email protected] Phone: (413)-625-2355. Website: www.sarahpirtle.org Sarah Pirtle is available to lead free dialogue programs addressing sexism. She is an Interfaith Minister who offers concerts of music and storytelling on Women’s Voices Rising -- Catching Courage. She is the author of five books including Better Together and a young adult novel An Outbreak of Peace about changing racism which received the Olive Branch Award for outstanding book of the year on world peace. As a graduate school teacher for twenty years, she developed conflict transformation activities primarily for K-8th. She has eleven recordings including Everyday Bravery, and Two Hands Hold the Earth. KEEPERS OF THE FIRE: Overturning the oppression of the feminine PART ONE: OVERVIEW How do you enter into shared responsibility for helping to change a social system you didn’t cause? “What the world believes about women impacts all of us -- and Earth.” -- Jude Rittenhouse The world reels under the violence and devaluing of women. Whoever you are, you are welcome and you are needed in the struggle to change the systemic oppression of sexism. The insights you bring from your personal perspective, from your many identities and from your study of social change are all crucial for changing and challenging this together. This booklet offers materials you can use to start conversations and hold dialogues. We want it to be used by schools, libraries and houses of worship to raise a range of relevant social change topics: gender equity, sexism, safety and respect of girls and women, gender reconciliation. You can choose selections from the booklet to show to friends or set up a dialogue session described in Part Two. The booklet helps us learn about key websites. For instance, the Everyday Sexism Project announces in their home page: “It seems to be increasingly difficult to talk about sexism, equality and women’s rights in a modern society that perceives itself to have achieved gender equality. In this ‘liberal’, ‘modern’ age, to complain about everyday sexism or suggest that you are unhappy about the way in which women are portrayed and perceived renders you likely to be labelled.” Laura Bates, a UK feminist writer, founded the Everyday Sexism Project in 2012 to document examples of sexism from around the world. A huge-outpouring of responses resulted. In this booklet you’ll find many lenses -- information from individuals, recent social movements, and current organizations that contribute to this change. It’s a collection of anecdotes and analysis. It’s a collection of clues that invites you to share your own discoveries and insights. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: Western Massachusetts We catch courage when we learn the stories of women leaders. 1600s Who was the last recorded leader of the Pocumtucks, the First Nations people in the region that is now Franklin County? Answer: Mashalisque was the sachem. The village was in the area that is now the Quaker Center of Woolman Hill, on Keets Road in Deerfield. John Pynchon forced her to sign a deed August, 1672. It is likely that she died in the massacre in 1676 when the sanctuary area at Great Falls, which was a gathering place for 10,000 years, was attacked and over 340 women and children were killed. 1700s Who is the poet who wrote the oldest known work of literature by an African American woman? Answer: Lucy Terry from Deerfield. She wrote her ballad in 1746 using the colonial term “bars” for a meadow. It was called "Bars Fight" and it was preserved orally until a book on Western Massachusetts published it in 1855. 1800s Who created a convention for 400 people in Cummington, MA, to help women get the vote by bringing Julia Ward Howe to the Cummington Church? Answer: Henrietta Nahmer, a teacher, in 1881. 1900s Who was an inspiring professor of Zoology at Mt. Holyoke College who has a local library named for her? Answer: Dr. Cornelia Clapp, Belchertown’s Clapp Library. 1960s - TODAY Who refused to sit in the back car of a segregated train at age 16, and was a lifelong worker for social justice, taking part in the Civil Rights Movement and, along with her partner Wally Nelson, in War Tax Resistance, in starting the Farmer’s Market in Greenfield, and inspiring generations of activists? Answer: Juanita Nelson who also started the Free Harvest Supper. With Wally, Juanita lived simply on land-trust land in a home without electricity, Woolman Hill, Deerfield. Their large garden was called the Bean Patch. Who lives in Leverett but travels internationally each year to foster peace in 20 countries? Answer: Dr. Paula Green from Leverett who founded the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding and the Conflict Transformation Across Cultures program. Who is a tireless Quaker activist who began in the 1960s to protest the Vietnam War by providing draft counseling, worked for the Nuclear Weapons Freeze, started the first AFSC office in the Valley, and with her affinity group Shut It Down took a big role in closing down the Vernon VT Nuclear Plant? Answer: Frances Crowe -- Life-long peace activist living in Northampton. Today there are thousands of women throughout Western MA whose leadership in social-change affects far-reaching areas, including racial justice, the local foods movement, CSA farms, climate change, stopping the pipe lines, honoring First Nations people, peace education, rape and domestic abuse counseling, and rights of immigrants. There are women activists in roles as rabbis and ministers, lawyers and teachers, artists and parents. At the same time we live in a society that is riddled with patriarchal oppression. We step into this history and claim ourselves as part of the long line of people who are part of social change. THE ARCHETYPE OF THE KEEPER OF THE FIRE “The abuse of women and girls continues to be the most pervasive and unaddressed human rights violation on earth.” -- former US President Jimmy Carter “Patriarchy can only exist if violence is there to back it up.” -- Eve Ensler The Seeing Red Conference was held October 2016 in Connecticut by the Assisi Institute; it used a Jungian approach “to illuminate the unconscious forces behind feminine oppression.” At the opening session, Executive Director Loralee Scott-Conforti gave this invitation: “We need to be present to what is -- how patriarchal oppression has silenced us. Each of us was told not to be who we are authentically in.” Muriel McMahon added, “We go back to who we were before we became who we are not.” Dr. Demaris Wehr, the author of Jung and Feminism, asserted, “Something is terribly wrong, and we have to know the wound.” While attending this conference, I searched for an archetype to express the force that we call upon as we change sexism together. During the Seeing Red Conference, I found myself discerning what I came to call the Keeper of the Fire. The Keeper of the Fire says -- “I will stand by you as you look at this and as you speak what is true for you. You are not required to carry this alone. Larger forces help you to be able to face and talk about this ancient outrage.” The Keeper of the Fire encircles us as we move into this work, offering a flame of sacred truth that creates a space for our hearts to feel, and a space for us to learn and grow. The light reveals how all people have been torqued and how sexism skews human intimacy of sharing our hearts. We meet at a fire circle of transformation. FOOD FOR THOUGHT A fourteen-year-old writer for New Moon Magazine for Girls said: “Here are just a few reasons why we all need feminism: • Because it’s more dangerous to be a woman than it is to be a soldier in a modern conflict. • Because girls and women are told to be careful not to get raped, instead of teaching men not to rape. • Because we want our bodies to be simply left alone, and not a constant target of discussion, disrespect and objectification.” — Article by Serenity, age 14 From “What About Feminism?” in New Moon Magazine for Girls February 2016 THE SIGNS AT THE WOMEN’S MARCHES The number of participants in the Women’s Marches on January 21, 2017 has been estimated at close to three million nationally.
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