Black Girls
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Casting Prayers for Survival: Towards a Black Trans Theology
By J Mase III Who taught you how to pray? To conjure? To worship? To manifest? What was the context and intention? I was 11...
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A Black Trans Daughterhood of Story-Telling-Literacy
By Dora Santana When I was my own little girl in northern Brazil, a black mermaid lived in a water-well in our backyard. When my...
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An Introduction: When Remembering Forgets, What Forgetting Remembers
#TransMultitudes An Introduction By CeCe McDonald, Kai M. Green, and Treva C. Ellison This year for Trans Day of Remembrance, we are excited...
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America Taught Me How To Forget
By Jay-Marie Hill America Taught Me How To Forget america taught me how to forget my name my pain my stories my glories it’s...
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When the Tipping Point Melts
By Lex Kennedy When Lavern Cox graced the May 2014 cover of the TIME magazine “The Transgender Tipping Point” I realized the Black Trans iceberg...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: From Pernicious Editing to Audacious Rescripting (Benediction)
In her Introduction to Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture (2002), an edited collection of essays engaging the hyper-presence of...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: What’s Next: a Bibliography, a Journal and You
Throughout the #BlackSkinWhiteSin forum I was asked the question, “so sis, what’s next?” The truth is, this work intentionally leads to a variety of openings...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: Sexual Autonomy Ain’t Schizophrenia: Deconstructing Bynum’s Ableist Rhetoric in “No More Sheets Pt. 2”
By Jade Perry Last Monday a good friend sent Juanita Bynum’s “No More Sheets Part 2” via inbox with the caption, “She’s baaaaack.” I clicked...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: Shielding Our Girls From Misogynoir…Even When It Comes From the Church
By Kimberly Peeler-Ringer I was getting a feel for my own preaching voice right around the time Juanita Bynum’s “No More Sheets” came out. I...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: Black Feminist Thoughts on No More Sheets and Black Sexual Politics
During my senior year of college, sometime between 2002 and 2003, a good friend of mine—let’s call her Nicole—alerted me to Juanita Bynum’s No More...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: For Those Still Haunted by The Sheets (Why the Counter-Narrative Matters)
By Candice Benbow I remember the first time I watched Juanita Bynum’s “No More Sheets” sermon. Family members had just come back from the Woman,...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: No Redemptive Quality: Black Women’s Bodies, Black Church and the Business of Shame
By Melva L. Sampson In 1996, I sat in an auditorium-styled mega church sanctuary in Washington, DC along with hundreds of other mostly Black women...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: From Free to Freaks: Analyzing Juanita Bynum’s Dilemma of Holy and Ho
By Monique Moultrie When Prophetess Juanita Bynum’s most recent Facebook live video came to my attention it was yet another example of Bynum’s attempts at...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: What Juanita Bynum Gets Wrong: Reflections from A Pentecostal Woman Preacher
By Keri Day I remember encountering Juanita Bynum for the first time as a college student at a Church of God in Christ (COGIC) Jurisdictional...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: Received: Black Women and Our Talking Bodies
By Neichelle Guidry One Sunday during my childhood, a woman in my church approached me with a “gift.” “God has led me to give this...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Disbanding with White Patriarchy, Embracing Ourselves Despite Our Differences
By J.T. Roane The poison that is white patriarchy, has seduced all. It is like what Black feminist scholar Vivian Gordon called in a different...
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Beyond Mammy, Jezebel, and Sapphire: Reclaiming Images of Black Women
Who will sing a Black girl’s song? During the spring 2015 semester, a group of students at Colorado College, where I am Associate Director and...
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On Gloria Naylor’s Transition: A Love Note
On September 28, Gloria Naylor died of a heart attack while visiting the Virgin Islands at just 66-years-old. I was just 7-years-old and in 3rd grade...
