Thank you to everyone who has donated to our summer fundraising campaign! Your generous gifts surpassed our $5,000 goal, and we are so grateful. Your donations will help us continue […]
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Upcoming Workshops in July
We have several new workshops this July, and a couple favorites returning by popular demand. Here are a few highlights below. Make sure to head over to our calendar for […]
How You Can Help
Every summer we ask you to support the work of this vibrant womanist and feminist community. Although many things are different this summer, I know one thing hasn’t changed: your […]
2020 Essay Contest – Now Accepting Submissions!
RCWMS is committed to supporting all women as they find their voices and make them heard. In addition to our writing classes, workshops, and retreats, we run an essay contest in […]
Resources and Readings on Racial Justice
Who will you serve?What priorities will you hold in front of yourself?How will you show up?How fully can you love?–Leo Babauta, Zen Habits Babauta’s words provide a useful frame as […]
Protests, Police Violence, and a Pandemic
Our quarterly print newsletter, South of the Garden, went to the printer just before Memorial Day. This issue is now available online, and you may see it in your mailbox later this […]
Summer
It’s July of 1981. I’m six weeks old. I feel safe in my mother’s arms, but she must be terrified as she clutches me tight and gingerly takes each step […]
Virtual Book Launch Welcomes TARA into the World!
Editor’s Note: This week we welcome guest author and former RCWMS Board Member Rachael Wooten. RCWMS Executive Director Jeanette Stokes joined Wooten via Zoom last month to discuss Wooten’s new […]
Hospitality
We arrived at the farm in the early afternoon, hours before our hosts were due to arrive. They had said to make ourselves at home, and the gentleman who gave […]
10 Tips for Challenging Times – Dr. Lisa Baron
The pandemic is taking an extreme toll on our energy. Therefore, we are feeling tired, depleted, unbalanced, cranky, depressed, and anxious. We are falling into old patterns in our relationships, […]
May Programming
It’s hard to believe it’s May! We continue to Zoom along and we have lots of new workshops starting up this month. That’s in addition to some of your favorite […]
Earth Day Turns 50!
I remember staring at the original Earth Day poster above my brother Jerry’s desk. My small-town, Kansan, seven-year-old brain was mystified. Why set aside a day to protect the earth? […]
Quarantine Reflections
This week, the RCWMS staff reflects on daily life in quarantine. What are you experiencing, feeling, thinking about, learning? Email your snapshots of daily life to rebecca@rcwms.org by Wednesday, April […]
Walking the Labyrinth Together
For several years now the RCWMS labyrinth has been installed at Binkley Baptist Church in Chapel Hill for the community to walk during Holy Week. Ensuring our safety through physical […]
RCWMS Gets on Zoom
We’re excited to launch all new online programming next week at RCWMS. It’s been an adjustment and an adventure retooling our typical workshops for virtual community-building. We’re think you’ll like […]
Friendship
Rachel Sauls, a UNC senior, is our Anita McLeod intern this spring. Like most college students around the country, Rachel is finishing her semester remotely, and she continues to work […]
Tips and Resources from an Extrovert During the Pandemic
On Monday, at the now-daily press conference on the coronavirus, President Trump added his sober warning to those of public health officials from around the world to advocate for all […]
Caring for Ourselves and Each Other
Like everyone we know, we at RCWMS are grappling with uncertain, anxious times with the coronavirus now marching around the globe. For the month of March we are cancelling some of our […]
Meet RCWMS Intern Rachel Sauls
Rachel Sauls is the spring 2020 Anita McLeod Intern at RCWMS. She grew up in Durham, but has always been a Tar Heel, and is currently a senior at UNC-Chapel […]
How Did I Get Here?
How Did I Get Here and Where Am I Going? On January 18, my colleague Cathy Meerbergen and I facilitated a workshop entitled “How Did I Get Here and Where […]
Tradition
Dislodging the myths that were embedded in me as a child has been a painful and illuminating project of adulting. In a cosmic game of Jenga, I delicately loosen, rearrange, […]
Why I’m supporting RCWMS
Let me introduce myself. I’m Christine, and I want to let you know why I’m supporting RCWMS this December. Exactly a year ago, I pretty much gave up on the nonprofit […]
You do not have to be good.
Though the weather is chilling and the leaves are falling, my mind has been traveling back to a different change in the seasons. Spring of this year brought with it […]
Road Trip
I took a long road trip in October to New Orleans, Tulsa, and points in between. I drove because I don’t really like flying, and it would have required many […]