A feminist ethic of risk

Courage is contagious, too.

We began this month of October, this month of courage, by looking at Dr. Sharon Welch's book, A Feminist Ethic of Risk.

And she argues that you need to let go of the idea that we can build sensible, risk-free policies.

That was only ever a myth.

Sharon Welch used to be the provost at Meadville Lombard, which is a Unitarian Universalist seminary.

This book is entitled A Feminist Ethic of Risk.

Welch begins the book by offering a gentle critique of the serenity prayer.

That famously begins, God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Courage.

And like Esther, Reverend Mary and Edna were up against forces that were ready to destroy them.

Real Risk And this is actually Dr. Welch's point in A Feminist Ethic of Risk, that people with marginalized identities have never had the luxury of making risk-free calculations.

Indeed, much of her book details the work of African and African-American women who wake up every day facing the intersectional oppressive forces of misogyny and racism.