Category Archives: Respectability
Meditation on a Theme
Constance Merritt’s brilliantly crafted villanelle has great resonance at this moment we are living in. It invites reflection that will empower us for the work of resistance and renewal. Her poem teaches us that we must create a world …
Posted in Black Lives Matter, Bullying/violence, Children, Church leaders, Church seasons, Congregational life, Economic disparities, Family, Gay/lesbian, Gender, Hospitality, Housing, Incarceration, Interfaith, Opening to change, Pop culture, Respectability, Social justice, Stigma, Women of color
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“But Those Were Just Words”: Things We Should Stop Saying After This Election
By Jameelah Jones, M.A. This commentary originally appeared on Jameelah Jones’ Medium blog. I won’t type the presidential election results because you already know them. For 24 hours, I didn’t know what so say. For many of us who do …
Posted in Black Lives Matter, Blog, Economic disparities, Gay/lesbian, Gender, Respectability, Sexual orientation, Social justice, Stigma
Tagged donald trump, elections, hillary clinton, social justice
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Queer flesh and worship respectability
Following the memorial service for Daryl Coley, I stood in awe at the numerous social media posts, re-posts and comments — both of B. Slade’s virtuosic performance of Donald Lawrence’s “When Sunday Comes” and the video clips of …
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