Reluctant Theologian
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Black feminist scholar and lover of freedom and justice.
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@reluctantheologian.bsky.social, author of "Freeing Black Girls," in @msmagazine.com:
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'Freeing Black Girls' and 'Loving Black Boys': Tamura Lomax on Revolutionary Mothering During Troubled Times
Black Feminist in Public: Author of Freeing Black Girls and Loving Black Boys Tamura Lomax in Revolutionary Mothering During Troubled Times
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October 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Read an interview with Tamura Lomax
@reluctantheologian.bsky.social, author of "Freeing Black Girls," in @msmagazine.com:
msmagazine.com/2025/10/23/b...
@reluctantheologian.bsky.social, author of "Freeing Black Girls," in @msmagazine.com:
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Good Sunday reading from womanist biblical scholar, Dr. Weems.
They Say It's Biblical. I Say It's A Lie.
What Conservative Christiantiy Calls Truth--and Why We Must Push Back.
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July 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Good Sunday reading from womanist biblical scholar, Dr. Weems.
I’m shocked at the depravity daily. But then I recall the 10 years I spent studying slave archives and testimonies and I am no longer surprised.
July 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I’m shocked at the depravity daily. But then I recall the 10 years I spent studying slave archives and testimonies and I am no longer surprised.
Let us never forget that people voted for this. Forgetting is how we got here. And sadly, we are only in month seven.
July 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Let us never forget that people voted for this. Forgetting is how we got here. And sadly, we are only in month seven.
This part.
July 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This part.
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oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
July 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
"The democrats are too orderly...they're almost too orderly for fascism." --@joyannreid.bsky.social
July 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"The democrats are too orderly...they're almost too orderly for fascism." --@joyannreid.bsky.social
[...] "t would be a betrayal of our moral inheritance to not remember the true champions of American freedom on this day. Indeed, to forget them would mean losing the moral resources we need to revive American democracy."
July 4th in the Face of Fascism
Moral resources for Americans who know we’ve been betrayed
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July 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
[...] "t would be a betrayal of our moral inheritance to not remember the true champions of American freedom on this day. Indeed, to forget them would mean losing the moral resources we need to revive American democracy."
On this 4th of July I want to remind us that nothing is new under the sun. Baiting alligators with humans and/or using alligators to dehumanize, threaten, and torture humans isn’t novel. What also doesn’t seem to change is the depravity of a certain sector of people.
July 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
On this 4th of July I want to remind us that nothing is new under the sun. Baiting alligators with humans and/or using alligators to dehumanize, threaten, and torture humans isn’t novel. What also doesn’t seem to change is the depravity of a certain sector of people.
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Here is a look at the "riots" in LA.....
"Who's got the power?
People Power."
Peaceful.
No National Guard or Marines needed.
#FreedomToDissent
"Who's got the power?
People Power."
Peaceful.
No National Guard or Marines needed.
#FreedomToDissent
June 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Here is a look at the "riots" in LA.....
"Who's got the power?
People Power."
Peaceful.
No National Guard or Marines needed.
#FreedomToDissent
"Who's got the power?
People Power."
Peaceful.
No National Guard or Marines needed.
#FreedomToDissent
It's been a while. This world has been stressing me out. It's very hard to inspire hope. Sadly, that's the point.
June 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
It's been a while. This world has been stressing me out. It's very hard to inspire hope. Sadly, that's the point.
"We are good because we love ourselves and others. Good black mothering, specifically, teaches Black children, amongst many things, self-love, mutuality, and to resist racist, heterosexist, heteropatriarchal, classist, and imperialist oppression everywhere."
Q&A with Tamura Lomax, Author of Freeing Black Girls
Tamura Lomax is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Michigan State University, author of Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture, and founder of The Fem…
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May 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"We are good because we love ourselves and others. Good black mothering, specifically, teaches Black children, amongst many things, self-love, mutuality, and to resist racist, heterosexist, heteropatriarchal, classist, and imperialist oppression everywhere."
Listen to women. Listen to @msmagazine.com. We're seeing how white supremacist heteropatriarchy is working out. Nobody wins. Read a book. Start a book club. And begin with these books.
May 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us
Each month, Ms. provides readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. It’s finally springtime in the Midwest, the grass is turning green and flowers a...
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May 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Listen to women. Listen to @msmagazine.com. We're seeing how white supremacist heteropatriarchy is working out. Nobody wins. Read a book. Start a book club. And begin with these books.
Sinners, the movie, explains so much.
May 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Sinners, the movie, explains so much.
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We don't have to look at The Handmaid's Tale to understand how concerning it is for a nation, which refuses to protect and support children, to deploy women's wombs as a unit of labor or gross national product. We can look at Black slave women whose bodies were directly tied to the slave market.
April 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
We don't have to look at The Handmaid's Tale to understand how concerning it is for a nation, which refuses to protect and support children, to deploy women's wombs as a unit of labor or gross national product. We can look at Black slave women whose bodies were directly tied to the slave market.
America: We don't want a better world! We want a world where white men can win.
Sit with that.
Sit with that.
April 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
America: We don't want a better world! We want a world where white men can win.
Sit with that.
Sit with that.
What I’m reading. If you care about Black women and girls you should too!
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@reluctantheologian.bsky.social , an insurgent feminist love letter to Black girls, women, mothers, and othermothers.
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April 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
What I’m reading. If you care about Black women and girls you should too!
Dear America,
Never ever complain about oppressed populations holding you accountable for historical violations. Somehow you've managed to refurbish and merge racial segregation and holocaust mechanisms in one in the 21st century -- while denying the sheer demonarchy of each.
Never ever complain about oppressed populations holding you accountable for historical violations. Somehow you've managed to refurbish and merge racial segregation and holocaust mechanisms in one in the 21st century -- while denying the sheer demonarchy of each.
April 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Dear America,
Never ever complain about oppressed populations holding you accountable for historical violations. Somehow you've managed to refurbish and merge racial segregation and holocaust mechanisms in one in the 21st century -- while denying the sheer demonarchy of each.
Never ever complain about oppressed populations holding you accountable for historical violations. Somehow you've managed to refurbish and merge racial segregation and holocaust mechanisms in one in the 21st century -- while denying the sheer demonarchy of each.
Wow. This is us. Never say this isn’t America. Say instead this is not the America we want to be.
April 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Wow. This is us. Never say this isn’t America. Say instead this is not the America we want to be.
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Crockett: It has taken Texas’ largest measles outbreak in 30 years with more than 500 confirmed cases and the deaths of two children for the secretary of health and human services to say what we already knew. The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the vaccin
April 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Crockett: It has taken Texas’ largest measles outbreak in 30 years with more than 500 confirmed cases and the deaths of two children for the secretary of health and human services to say what we already knew. The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the vaccin
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Why would a leader tank his own country's economy?
It's a key part of the aspiring autocrat's playbook.
Tariffs & chaos mean more power & control for Trump.
But America has no king. The Republican-led Congress can stop this at any time.
Let your reps hear from you.
5calls.org/issue/trump-...
It's a key part of the aspiring autocrat's playbook.
Tariffs & chaos mean more power & control for Trump.
But America has no king. The Republican-led Congress can stop this at any time.
Let your reps hear from you.
5calls.org/issue/trump-...
April 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Why would a leader tank his own country's economy?
It's a key part of the aspiring autocrat's playbook.
Tariffs & chaos mean more power & control for Trump.
But America has no king. The Republican-led Congress can stop this at any time.
Let your reps hear from you.
5calls.org/issue/trump-...
It's a key part of the aspiring autocrat's playbook.
Tariffs & chaos mean more power & control for Trump.
But America has no king. The Republican-led Congress can stop this at any time.
Let your reps hear from you.
5calls.org/issue/trump-...