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Photo courtesy of New York Magazine For those who took part in the Women’s March today, January 21, 2017. “But now this one word hath my sense restored, Lightened my mind, and quickened my heart, And in my soul a living spirit poured, Yea, with sweet comfort strengthened every part: For well this word a spirit dead may rise, Which only word made Heaven, World, and Seas.” Gervase Markham “Marie Magdalens—Lamentation #6” On a starless night, a woman and child huddled in the front of a battered wooden boat as it was propelled by the waves toward the beachhead.   Water, cold and bracing, sloshed over the bow and pooled around their sandaled feet.   Dark and shadowy men met them and pulled the craft up onto the sand and hands extended to help the woman and child disembark on the black-shrouded coast of Gaul.   “I am Mary of Magdala,” the women whispered.   “I am Mary of Magdala, and I come bearing the blood of Jesus Christ, our savior,”   She wrapped her arm around ...

As is the case with many world religions, in Sikhism we find that patriarchy is deeply embedded in the traditions and texts of the faith, even as Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh tells us that Sikh Gurus “empathized” with women oppressed and in turn, “emphasized gender equality.”   This, in some ways, contradicts Geetanjali Singh Chanda and Staci Ford’s piece, “Sikh Masculinity, Religion, and Diaspora in Shauna Singh Baldwin’s English Lessons and Other Stories.”   Chanda and Ford state quite clearly that “The family, specifically the hetero-normative family, is at the heart of the performance, the pedagogy, and the continuity of specific notions of a religio-cultural masculinity.”   This leaves the Sikh male in a difficult place, especially here in America where the turban often subjects men to physical attack and even death in this post-9/11 landscape. Chanda and Ford describe ads featuring Sikh males prominently displayed in the bright lights of Main Street America:   Ti...