En conjunto: LGBTQ Issues in the Church and in the Academy

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Dr. Xochitl Alvizo and Dr. Matilde Moros shed light on pedagogical methods

 

In this pedagogical methods conversation, Dr. Xochitl Alvizo and Dr. Matilde Moros discuss their teaching of gender, sexuality and women’s studies. They each share how they navigate their individual experience of LGBTQ Latinx family lives and their religious studies backgrounds when teaching undergraduate classes.

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Xochitl Alvizo

Dr. Xochitl Alvizo teaches in the area of Women and Religion and the Philosophy of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality at California State University, Northridge. She is committed to bringing an intercultural feminist approach to theology and the study of religion. Her interests include feminist and queer theologies, congregational studies, ecclesiology, and the emerging church. Her work is inspired by the conviction that all people are inextricably connected and what we do, down to the smallest thing, matters. She makes her church home with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Dr. Alvizo is co-founder of Feminism and Religion (feminismandreligion.com) and The Pub Church, Boston. Dr. Alvizo, along with Gina Messina, is co-editor of the volume Women Religion Revolution (FSR Books, 2017).

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Matilde Moros

Dr. Matilde Moros is Assistant Professor of Gender Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a theological social ethicist working in the field of gender, sexuality and women's studies. The ethics of resistance and subversion of hegemonic world-views and narratives of power lead her teaching and learning toward a counter-narrative method of decolonial, transnational feminist ethics. Feminist social ethics must respond to sexual and gender violence and the multiple intersections of which race and its various social constructions has led to the exclusion from centers of power of many peoples, including Latin-American and Latinx communities. Dr. Moros conducts research on the communal and historical effects of organized resistance to gendered and sexual violence has led her to an approach to liberation ethics in which recovery of resistance methods has become the primary focus.

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