and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive ― Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems
Alternatives to Religious Force: Christian Peacemaker Teams
We are against violence in all forms, and we envision a world of communities that together embrace the diversity of the human family and live justly and peaceably with all creation. —Sarah Thompson, Christian Peacemaker Teams Alternatives to religious force exist: Christian Peacemaker Teams is one of them and could stand a whole lot more […]
Teen Self and Adult Self
This morning @mslooola asked: “What would teen you think of adult you?”#noshamemov So I found Teen Self and we had a chat. Teen Self: You locked our hair! Adult Self: Yeah, I like it. Might cut it in a decade or two; what you think? Teen Self: O_O Teen Self: You stopped playing basketball. Do […]
Videos: Gabrielle Union & Dustin Hoffman
1. At the 2013 Essence Magazine Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon this February, Gabrielle Union received the Fierce and Fearless Award. Her acceptance speech is remarkable. (It starts at about 1:03 of 11:32.) “We live in a town that rewards pretending and I have been pretending to be fierce and fearless for a very long time. […]
Going Places
“Oh, the places you’ll go!” The person who introduced me to this story was one of my biggest adult advocates. It’s the kind of “Go and be!” tale that encourages many of us to leave our nests and move out into the rest of the world to do whatever good we can. But I didn’t […]
Filling In the Gaps: Sexuality and the Seventh-day Adventist Church III
In Part 1 of this series, I reflected on the Seventh-day Adventist denomination’s influence on the sexual orientation change effort (SOCE) movement since the 1970s and its lobbying against civil initiatives for LGBT people to the present day. Then, in Part 2, I suggested that the limits of our church “mother” can inspire us to grow, that this growth is part […]
