Can’t We All Just Get Along? The Tensions of Black Queerness, Womanhood, & the Cross
Is Black Male Queerness an enemy of Black Women? An Op-Ed on the tensions of Black Gay men, Black women, & their place in the Black church.
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Gender & Power Love &. Relationships Race Sexuality
Essays exploring identity, belonging, selfhood, embodiment, memory, spirituality, race, gender, and the emotional formation of the self within culture, religion, and public life. Identity examines how power, survival, faith, and social systems shape the ways people understand themselves, their communities, and their place in the world.
#ThingsOnlyBlackChristianWomenHear: Women Sound off on Twitter about Sexism & the Church
#ThingsOnlyBlackChristianWomenHear: a hashtag about the ways Black Christian women suffer in public ministry and in the church.
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Don’t Blame Mental Illness for Steve Stephens, Blame Toxic Masculinity.
Steve Stephens began a crime spree that ended in tragedy for multiple families and his suicide. Examining toxic masculinity the real culprit.
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Listen, Black Women Don’t Need Your Damned Fixing
No, seriously. Stop trying to fix Black women. On French Montana, Relationship Gurus, and the eternal cloud of misogynoir that rains on our parade.
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95 Reasons Black Women Are Endangered
#BlackLivesMatter. But why are the lives of Black women killed by police all but erased from the national conversation? 95 reasons we must #SayHerName.
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Black Bodies: On #TerenceCrutcher & #TeacherBae
What do Tulsa, OK. shooting victim Terence Crutcher and #TeacherBae Patrice Brown have in common? The intentional dehumanization of Black bodies.
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