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Willow Schenwar

Willow Schenwar teaches in the Department of English at The University of Illinois, Chicago. Her writing has appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Tikkun, Passages North, Truthout, and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago alongside Lake Michigan with her partner, son, and cat Zams.

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As the Right Peddles a Conspiracy About Trans People and Easter, A Reflection on the Spiritual Nature of My Gender Transition

Sunday was Transgender Day of Visibility; it was also Easter, a holy day for many people. This incidental confluence (Transgender Day of Visibility is always on March 31, and Easter just happened to…
Willow Schenwar
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Religion Dispatches

Dying in Dirty Places: How to Honor the Dead in the Era of Ecocide

Everyone is in agreement that desecration is a bad thing. Across cultures and throughout time, most any human being would say that dousing a dead person’s tomb with millions of gallons of crude oil is wrong. We should take advantage of this rare instance of human unanimity, and use the spiritual appeal of honoring the dead to help frame political arguments about ecological preservation and restoration.
Willow Schenwar
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Religion Dispatches

No Garden to Get Back to: Understanding Post-Avatar Ecological Depressive Disorder

It may be only a movie, but it is turning significant segments of its audience into eco-radicals. We can go ahead and dissect the film’s weaknesses, but as our planet dies, and politicians fail, is this really how we want to talk about the most influential ecological parable of our time?
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