antiracism

September 29, 2023
anti-racism antiracism social justice Symposium Week

“Reorienting Ourselves to the Reality of Not Yet” Launches Second Phase of Anti-Racist Initiatives at United

SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA, UNITED STATES, September 27, 2023 — United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities (United) and Rev. Dr. Gary F. Green, II—Director of Anti-Racist Initiatives—are thrilled to announce that on Monday, October 23, at 7:30 PM, we will cap off the first day of Symposium Week with a free, public event that officially launches the second wave of United’s Anti-Racist Initiatives. (more…)

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March 21, 2021
antiracism

United Theological Seminary’s Response to the Atlanta Shootings

The United community is heartbroken and outraged by the recent killings in Atlanta. These hate crimes expose the systemic violence against Asian-Americans, which has continued to grow in the shadow of COVID-19, and against Asian-American women specifically. Additionally, the shootings in Atlanta are a result of a particular prejudice at the intersection of race and gender. The shooter targeted his victims for “providing an outlet for his addiction to sex,” thereby linking Asian/Pacific Islander women with sex and seduction and blaming his victims for his own violent actions. Blaming women for violence directed at them by the hands of men is an age-old manifestation of patriarchal violence. However, the particular association of Asian women with sex work and with Asian-owned spas as sites for sexual ensnarement is deeply tied to Orientalist myths that saturate U.S. media and culture. These gendered and racial tropes fuel the illusory divide between a static (and subordinate) “East” and a static (and dominant) “West,” justifying the exploitation of the former at the hands of the latter. Women are not “asking for it.” The so-called-East is not the spoils of the West.   (more…)

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