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Radical Self-Love: Writing Intimate Spaces in the Age of Tyranny

Radical Self-Love: Writing Intimate Spaces in the Age of Tyranny

Best Of, Black Love, Feminism, History, In the News, Pleasure, Race, Religion Faith and Spirituality, Sex, Social Justice, Tyranny, Writing Intimacy

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...
The Ruth-Boaz Myth and the Gospel of Sexual Freedom (#SFS17 Day 2)

The Ruth-Boaz Myth and the Gospel of Sexual Freedom (#SFS17 Day 2)

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...
Why Being Single Often Feels Like Punishment for Black Church Girls

Why Being Single Often Feels Like Punishment for Black Church Girls

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...

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