#BlackChurchSex, Best Of, Feminism, Religion Faith and Spirituality, Sex
Originally published Aug. 8, 2014 I hate when I think of a snappy comeback three weeks after a discussion ends. That’s happening right now, as I think of a coversation I had with another American student in our group in Trinidad. I’ll call her...
Best Of, Black Diaspora, Education, Race, Religion Faith and Spirituality, Research and Scholarship, Travel
Originally published July 21, 2014 Despite the photos I’m posting on Facebook and Twitter, this trip isn’t all, or even 10%, about the beach. It’s not a vacation; it’s a short-term academic STUDY abroad program. At the end of these three weeks,...
#BlackChurchSex, Best Of, Beyonce, Feminism, Gender, Pleasure, Pop Culture, Race, Religion Faith and Spirituality, Sex
Originally published Dec. 27, 2013 I said I wouldn’t write about this because I knew I wouldn’t download the album until after Christmas and my commentary would be late and go largely unnoticed, and what more could I add to all that’s already been said anyway? But I...
Best Of, Family, Race, Religion Faith and Spirituality, Respectability
Originally published Dec. 22, 2013 In “The Comfort of a Sweet, Black, Dreadlocked Jesus,” I recalled the image of Jesus Christ as depicted in a painting hanging on the wall in my grandmother’s house: [H]e looked like da Vinci’s Christ—a fair-skinned...
Best Of, Feminism, Pleasure, Pop Culture, Religion Faith and Spirituality, Sex
I could probably blog for a year on all the issues brought up in this interview with 19-year-old London art school student Clayton Pettet, who’s selling tickets to a performance piece in which he will lose his virginity on stage, but I’ve narrowed it down to...
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