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Marielle
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✊🏾 Womanist Ethicist
🖋 Resistance Writer
📚 Educator
🌍 Bridging theology, culture & justice
💡 Helping others discover their why
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April 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Every woman on my timeline, stop for a second I have something you need to hear!
April 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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This week was a beautiful and affirming week 🥰✨From learning my paper proposal was accepted for the in person meeting of the American Academy of Religion to receiving my graduation invitations in the mail. Whew 🥹😭 I am beautifully overwhelmed
An email that reads Dear Marielle Thomas, Congratulations! The Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Unit has accepted your proposal "Altar Work: Black Women, Sacred Reclamation and the Fourth Wave of Womanism" for the In-person November Annual Meeting 2025. You are listed as Author. Please be on the lookout for a follow-up message from the program unit chairs. Marielle who has long yellow nails holds a Columbia Theological Seminary commencement invitation. The invitation, bordered in red, includes the seminary’s seal at the top and reads: “The Class of 2025 with the Trustees and Faculty of Columbia Theological Seminary request the honor of your presence at the Commencement Service on Saturday, the seventeenth of May, two thousand and twenty-five at ten o’clock in the morning. Trinity Presbyterian Church, 3003 Howell Mill Road NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30327. Reception immediately following Williams Hall.” The background shows window blinds with soft daylight filtering through.
April 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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OMG!!! What is happening ?! 😳😳

my paper proposal got accepted for the in person annual meeting for the American Academy of Religion 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹😭
A screen shot of an email that reads Dear Marielle Thomas, Congratulations! The Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Unit has accepted your proposal "Altar Work: Black Women, Sacred Reclamation and the Fourth Wave of Womanism" for the In-person November Annual Meeting 2025. You are listed as Author. Please be on the lookout for a follow-up message from the program unit chairs.
April 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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This season just feels special 🥹🥹🥹
Marielle rocking her shades, big gold hoops, a gold earring and a burgundy lip in her car with sun rays piercing through the sunroof
March 27, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Congrats Dr. Smith!! 🎉🎉
March 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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And let’s talk about the room! A gathering of Womanist scholars whose work, words, and presence have shaped me -Dr. Lisa M. Weaver, Dr. Angela Parker, Dr. Renita J. Weems, and undoubtedly more. My cup is full. My spirit is lifted. I left feeling deeply inspired. 💜
Alt text: Dr. Renita Weems stands at a wooden podium in a chapel with large stained-glass windows featuring blue, yellow, and red flame-like designs. The speaker, wearing glasses and a black outfit with a patterned top, is addressing the audience. A bouquet of flowers is placed near the podium. The audience members are seen in the foreground, attentively listening. The chapel has white walls and a mounted speaker on the right side. Alt text: Dr. Lisa Weaver wearing a vibrant yellow and black patterned outfit stands at a wooden podium in a chapel, gesturing with both arms raised. The stained-glass windows behind them feature blue, yellow, and red flame-like designs. A bouquet of flowers is placed near the podium. Audience members are seen in the foreground, attentively listening. The chapel has white walls and a mounted speaker on the right side.
March 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Her inaugural address? A master class in scholarship, brilliance, and truth-telling. Taking her class was a pivotal shift in my own journey—I got to witness her genius up close, and I am forever grateful.
March 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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What an absolute honor to witness Dr. Mitzi J. Smith, PhD (@womanistprof67.bsky.social ) officially step into her role as the J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary! 🎉
Alt text: A person with yellow-painted nails holds a printed program for the inauguration service of Rev. Dr. Mitzi J. Smith as the J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. The program includes the event details: Wednesday, March 19, 2025, at 4:00 p.m. in the Harrington Center Chapel. The Columbia Theological Seminary seal is printed at the top of the program. The background shows a blurred view of other attendees seated in the venue. Alt text: Dr. Mitzi Amith stands at a wooden podium in front of a congregation in a chapel with large stained-glass windows. The stained glass features blue, yellow, and red designs, including flame-like patterns. A bouquet of flowers sits near the podium. The chapel has white walls and a speaker mounted on the right side. Alt text: A moment during a formal event in a chapel with large stained-glass windows featuring blue, yellow, and red flame-like designs. A man, President of CTS, Dr. Aloyo, in a suit and bow tie stands at a wooden podium, presenting a gift to Dr. Mitzi Smith dressed in black. A microphone is attached to the podium. The audience watches attentively, with one person in the foreground wearing a vibrant orange jacket. A bouquet of flowers is placed near the podium. The chapel has white walls and a speaker mounted on the right side. Alt text: A moment during a formal event in a chapel with large stained-glass windows featuring blue, yellow, and red flame-like designs. A man, President of CTS, Dr. Aloyo, in a suit and bow tie stands at a wooden podium, presenting a gift to Dr. Mitzi Smith dressed in black. A microphone is attached to the podium. The audience watches attentively, with one person in the foreground wearing a vibrant orange jacket. A bouquet of flowers is placed near the podium. The chapel has white walls and a speaker mounted on the right side.
March 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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If you’re in the Atlanta area or want to attend virtually, this lecture should be good! Register at the link below — it’s free to attend 😎

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Candler’s Black Church Studies Program will welcome Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein, assistant professor in Black religious traditions and constructive theology and ethics at Brite Divinity School, as the distinguished guest speaker for the 2025 Anna Julia Cooper Lecture. Oredein will present her lecture, “Can African Women Be Womanists?”, on Tuesday, April 1 from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
March 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣 Bear is my dog 🥰🥰
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March 16, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Oh, this is a NASTY lip 🥵🥵🥵
Marielle with a bold purple lip and popping gold earrings Marielle with a sick lip , moisturized face and a peace nobody can take away
March 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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I’m running out of places to put grief. 💔🙏🏾🕊️
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March 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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A couple of years ago, I was so scared to lean into my writing because I felt like no one would want to or even cared to engage with my words. I decided to do it anyway. I’m grateful for every engagement with my words and thoughts 🥹😭 Grateful!
Black words on a white background read: 1,000 subscribers. You did it. Womanist Frequencies with Marielle’s Substack has reached its first thousand subscribers.
March 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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I’m attending our Black Student Caucus’ Black Heritage Ball celebrating the 1st Black student who was admitted to Candler 60 years ago. I am deeply honored and humbled to be receiving the Stellar Staff Award. I love my students down so this is an honor 🥹
Marielle making kissing face 😘 Marielle smiling looking into the camera with a black sequin dress, pearl hoop earrings and fierce red lip 💋
March 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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📚 The Resistance Classroom – A space to keep marginalized voices at the forefront by highlighting books, lectures, art, music, & more from brilliant thinkers whose work is being erased or silenced in this era.
An empty classroom with open books on the desk, posters of marginalized art in various forms lines the wall and the white board reads “The resistance classroom.”
February 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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✨ Altar Diaries – This series explores how Black women’s spirituality is evolving in the 4th wave of womanism. I’ll be discussing how Black women are reclaiming beliefs, rituals, and practices to enhance their lives & communities.
Black woken sit on the floor in a circle. Each have a pen and pad and they are writing in a space surrounded by candlelight and spiritual symbols
February 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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A quote from the essay is in white letters on a black background that reads: “Black women, have time and time again, put democracy on their backs trying to fight for a better American when white women have historically not done their part of the assignment for the group project.” A quote from the essay in white letters on a Black background states, “Black women’s bodies don’t belong to you. And since we’re on the subject, let me take that further, Black bodies period,don’t belong to you! Where we put our energy in this moment is completely and solely up to us.”
February 24, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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New Substack essay is loading based on this rising trend of white women expecting and having the audacity of asking Black women to negate their well being to save a country that never gave a damn about them. Oh, I’m activated TUH - day!!
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February 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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I’m trying to stay as informed as I can during these times to ensure I can support my students to the best of my ability!
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February 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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February 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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My latest essay, “(Black) Art is Dangerous, but Sometimes, That Shit is Fun Too” is live
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February 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Excited to dive into my new read! If you read it, what were your thoughts?
Young Black girl with her hair braided towards the sky and adorned with white and pink flowers both in her hair and around her neck and rocking gold jewelry looks powerful against a light blue background. White words that read Imagination a Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin are placed under her picture
February 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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This is what I’ve been reflecting on
A moment of reflection with a torn American flag against dark skies
February 2, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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The snow is back in Atlanta! ❄️☃️⛄️
January 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM