#BlackChurchSex, Black Love, Gender, Love Single Life and Marriage, Pop Culture, Race, Religion Faith and Spirituality
Over the past week or so, as “For the D” and “For the P” challenges have overtaken attention spans, Christians have stepped in with remixes espousing what they would do “For the D [after a ring],” “For My Jesus,” “For My God,” and “For My Husband.” At least, Black...
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For two weeks after the election, I wrote nothing. I was enrolled in two writing workshops for my MFA, and I wrote nothing. I submitted a poem I had written over the summer and didn’t bother to revise for my poetry workshop that week. The following week, I skipped my...
Best Of, Black Love, In the News, Pleasure, Race, Sex, Tyranny
Like many people, I spent most of Saturday at my computer and on my phone reading and re-tweeting updates about the white supremacists who had descended upon Charlottesville, Virginia. My emotions ranged from anger to sadness to disgust. And try as I do to promote...
Best Of, Black Love, Feminism, Pleasure, Religion Faith and Spirituality, Sex
I attended a conference session called, “Defusing the Power of Toxic Religion for Sexual Advocacy,” because I’m writing a memoir about intersections of faith, family, and feminism in my life and of my experience with black female sexuality within the context of the...
Best Of, Black Love, Pleasure, Religion Faith and Spirituality, Sex
How is a church like prison and being incarcerated like belonging to a church? Both have a way of asking, “How do you plan to handle potentially lifelong, involuntary celibacy?” Read more. ← On my bicycle, at the intersection of blackness and...
Black Love, History, Social Justice
Originally published in the Courier-Journal on Sept. 28, 2014 and edited by Pam Platt. For the past several months, as staff at the University of Louisville Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research, I have been compiling newspaper clippings, archival...
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