Why Aren’t You Divorced Yet?
How one person survived emotional abuse while struggling with her religious views on love, marriage, reconciliation, and divorce.
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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.
Colorism at the Cross
Colorism, the active discrimination of darker hued people within a race, and its role in the historic and present day Black church.
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In These Streets: Jamal Bryant & the Double Standard
A response to Demetria Lucas D'Oyley on Pastor Jamal Bryant, the Black church, and how sexism covers a multitude of sins.
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On Angela Simmons & Sex Politics
How Angela Simmons' unwed pregnancy post-abstinence declaration shines a light on the problems of sexual politics, women, and faith.
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In These Streets: Tamar Braxton, The Real, & the Failure of Sisterhood
Tamar Braxton's departure from her daytime TV gig, "The Real," came under accusations of betrayal. Some women failed to show the love & grace of sisterhood.
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Hoes Ain’t Won: The Fix
Side note: The language and situational dialogue of this post is cis-heteronormative. This means it’s primarily focused on what’s normal for cisgender (a person whose gender identity matches the one assigned at birth) and heterosexual...
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