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A Collective Student Response to the “Chicago Statement”
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Book Release: Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture
#eulogizingaretha: For the Colored Girl Who Gave Us a Rainbow When the Black Church Wasn’t Enuff (Benediction)
#eulogizingaretha: A Reflection Upon a Musical Selection: “Mary, Don’t You Weep”
#eulogizingaretha: What We Need to Say About Mother Franklin
#eulogizingaretha: The Power of Aretha Louise Franklin
#eulogizingaretha: A Rose Is Still A Rose
#eulogizingaretha: The Queen Saved My Soul
#eulogizingaretha: A Natural Black Woman: Aretha Franklin’s #BlackGirlMagic
#eulogizingaretha: Her life. Her love for us. Our love for her.
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Unfinished
For centuries, Black women have been expected to hold up the church, whether through finances, service, or both. Who’s holding up these women? Who’s singing...
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[VIDEO] Pops’nAde: a Courageous Daughter & Her NonAbusive Father on Loving Lessons, Living Legacies (L)earned after Sexual Violence
We lift our voices to sing; we speak because we must, and we speak without shame, trepidation, or doubt that we have a right to...
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Our Silence Will Not Save Us: Considering Survivors and Abusers
As a womanist psychologist, minister, and sacred artist, my reflections on effective response to child sexual abuse necessitate an examination of the journey of survivors...
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a place to live
I understood I was going to have to write, which, for me, meant jumping into a volcano and praying I would be able to climb...
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Fast
We must ask: What is the relationship between accountability and transformative justice? Justice that transforms harm into something else, like Black love, is hard work....
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“The Least of These”: Black Children, Sexual Abuse, and Theological Malpractice
Until Black churches are honest about human sexuality and our collective discomfort with it, sexual violence will remain unchecked and accountability will be nothing more...
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How I Built Community While Researching Accountability
I knew then that if following that truth was healing her and kept bringing her back to this honorable work, that indeed we were no...
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Love Centered Accountability
Living in a punitive, crime and punishment society makes the idea of #LoveWITHAccountability almost inconceivable. What on earth would be unearthed if we began to...
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Soul Survivor: Reimagining Legacy
I am mindful that the Movement looms much larger than my father or his work, but I also know that there were men...
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Digging Up the Roots: An Introduction to the #LoveWITHAccountability Forum
We must also address child sexual abuse and other forms of sexual violence in our families, our communities, and our religious, academic, political, and civic...
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Arts & Culture: “For the Semanticists”
By Jeanann Verlee se·man·ti·cist noun a specialist in the study of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. white priv·i·lege noun 1. making a semantic suggestion...
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Arts & Culture: “Disquiet”
By Mariam Williams I tried to write this pretty, but five false starts in, I give up and state it plainly: I...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Postpartum Pain
By Elisabeth J. Ferrell-Horan “Wellbutrin in my Brain” There is Wellbutrin in my brain, and I’d like to get it out. It has...
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The EverywhereNess of White Supremacy; from Glacier to Standing Rock, to Tulsa, to Charlotte, to…
By Zillah Eisenstein I have just returned from hiking in Glacier National Park. It is a strange place to have been—during this hate-filled racist/misogynist Presidential...
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Agnes Martin and the Necessary Joy in Opting Out
In 1967, Agnes Martin left New York. She bounced around the country, landing in New Mexico where she built herself an adobe home. She would...
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Arts & Culture: “Back Door Shoes”
By Mary Cuffe Perez They will be the last of her things to be taken away. The toes still wear a grin of mud and...
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Black Feminism Will Save My Life
By Eric Anthony Grollman Like most Black folks, I have a Black woman to thank for my existence (my mother) who, in turn, has another...
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Honoring Black Resistance without Supporting Nate Parker
During our many long and painful conversations about this publication, we deliberately and intentionally considered the reasons why so many Black folks would choose to...
