revogun
@revogun.bsky.social
Award-Winning Writer. Minister. Spiritual & Grief Coach. Activist. Podcaster. Polysexual. Polyamorous. Comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. 🇧🇧🇺🇸
Sometimes it's obvious when I'm in the throes of grief. Other times, it grabs my attention in ways I didn't see coming.
Read FAST FOOD FEELS: ANOTHER STRANGE YET NOT ENTIRELY SURPRISING ADVENTURE IN GRIEVING free for a limited time at necessarytrouble.substack.com/p/fast-food-...
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Fast Food Feels
Another Strange Yet Not Entirely Surprising Adventure In Grieving
necessarytrouble.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Sometimes it's obvious when I'm in the throes of grief. Other times, it grabs my attention in ways I didn't see coming.
Read FAST FOOD FEELS: ANOTHER STRANGE YET NOT ENTIRELY SURPRISING ADVENTURE IN GRIEVING free for a limited time at necessarytrouble.substack.com/p/fast-food-...
Read FAST FOOD FEELS: ANOTHER STRANGE YET NOT ENTIRELY SURPRISING ADVENTURE IN GRIEVING free for a limited time at necessarytrouble.substack.com/p/fast-food-...
Ezra Klein asking his Black friend Ta-Nehisi Coates how do we live now is admitting a woeful ignorance of how Black ppl have been living, surviving, thriving decade after decade. Friend? Really?!
October 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Ezra Klein asking his Black friend Ta-Nehisi Coates how do we live now is admitting a woeful ignorance of how Black ppl have been living, surviving, thriving decade after decade. Friend? Really?!
If you're a movement that teaches love and inclusion, it's not a good idea to learn strategies from hate organizations. Rev Kelly & I break down why -- withloveandjusticeforall.podbean.com/e/ep158-cant...
Ep.158 - Can't Borrow From Hate To Teach Love | With Love And Justice For All
Revs Kelly & Ogun break down why, if you're a movement for love and inclusion, it's not a good idea to learn strategies from hate organizations.
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The Body Is Not An Apology offers radical self...
withloveandjusticeforall.podbean.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If you're a movement that teaches love and inclusion, it's not a good idea to learn strategies from hate organizations. Rev Kelly & I break down why -- withloveandjusticeforall.podbean.com/e/ep158-cant...
It seems, for some, that my Blackness comes after my role as a minister, and that I should demonstrate their version of spiritual mastery/awakening/righteousness. This, too, is white supremacy thinking.
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No Apologies
If My Response To Charlie Kirk’s Death Didn’t Fit Your Pastoral Narrative, Perhaps I’m Not The Problem
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September 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
It seems, for some, that my Blackness comes after my role as a minister, and that I should demonstrate their version of spiritual mastery/awakening/righteousness. This, too, is white supremacy thinking.
Read NO APOLOGIES free for a limited time at necessarytrouble.substack.com/p/no-apologies
Read NO APOLOGIES free for a limited time at necessarytrouble.substack.com/p/no-apologies
You know that silicon valley trope "Move fast, break things?" More of us need to move slow, heal things. 🐢💗
September 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
You know that silicon valley trope "Move fast, break things?" More of us need to move slow, heal things. 🐢💗
So much has happened in the last few days, and there are not a lot of safe spaces to process. If there was ever a week to participate in an Antiracism Affinity Group, this is it.
See you Wed (9/17) 7:30pm ET on Zoom.
More info + free registration at projectsanctus.com/antiracism-a...
See you Wed (9/17) 7:30pm ET on Zoom.
More info + free registration at projectsanctus.com/antiracism-a...
September 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
So much has happened in the last few days, and there are not a lot of safe spaces to process. If there was ever a week to participate in an Antiracism Affinity Group, this is it.
See you Wed (9/17) 7:30pm ET on Zoom.
More info + free registration at projectsanctus.com/antiracism-a...
See you Wed (9/17) 7:30pm ET on Zoom.
More info + free registration at projectsanctus.com/antiracism-a...
Wild that ppl are asking me to prove that Charlie Kirk caused me personal harm, as if knowing me or uttering my name need to be prerequisites. They really don't understand how white supremacy rhetoric and ideology work do they?
September 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Wild that ppl are asking me to prove that Charlie Kirk caused me personal harm, as if knowing me or uttering my name need to be prerequisites. They really don't understand how white supremacy rhetoric and ideology work do they?
If you weren't a target of Charlie Kirk's racist misogynistic transphobia you don't get to police how those of us in his cross hairs are responding to his demise.
September 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
If you weren't a target of Charlie Kirk's racist misogynistic transphobia you don't get to police how those of us in his cross hairs are responding to his demise.
For all you spiritual folk who believe it's a betrayal of your "love & light" values to condemn Charlie Kirk, please refer to this comprehensive biblical list of the times Jesus insulted people.
www.christbible.net/escape-from-...
www.christbible.net/escape-from-...
When Jesus Insulted People: A Comprehensive List — Christ Bible Church
If we want to speak and minister as Christ did, then we must recognize that he often acted in surprising ways. Sometimes, we will need to speak with grace. At other times, we will be required to use h...
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September 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
For all you spiritual folk who believe it's a betrayal of your "love & light" values to condemn Charlie Kirk, please refer to this comprehensive biblical list of the times Jesus insulted people.
www.christbible.net/escape-from-...
www.christbible.net/escape-from-...
They say winning the lottery shows you who a person really is. Apparently, so does the assassination of a celebrity bigot.
September 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
They say winning the lottery shows you who a person really is. Apparently, so does the assassination of a celebrity bigot.
Brazil: Dude who tried to overthrow the government? 27 years in prison.
USA: Dude who tried to overthrow the government? 4 years in the White House.
And some of you still wondering how we got here.
USA: Dude who tried to overthrow the government? 4 years in the White House.
And some of you still wondering how we got here.
September 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Brazil: Dude who tried to overthrow the government? 27 years in prison.
USA: Dude who tried to overthrow the government? 4 years in the White House.
And some of you still wondering how we got here.
USA: Dude who tried to overthrow the government? 4 years in the White House.
And some of you still wondering how we got here.
Three true things before Charlie Kirk's murder that were reinforced in the reactions after:
1. white supremacy lives in religious spaces
2. white supremacy lives in progressive spaces
3. white supremacy lives in Black bodies
1. white supremacy lives in religious spaces
2. white supremacy lives in progressive spaces
3. white supremacy lives in Black bodies
September 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Three true things before Charlie Kirk's murder that were reinforced in the reactions after:
1. white supremacy lives in religious spaces
2. white supremacy lives in progressive spaces
3. white supremacy lives in Black bodies
1. white supremacy lives in religious spaces
2. white supremacy lives in progressive spaces
3. white supremacy lives in Black bodies
With the recent SCOTUS ruling and the threat of Chicago occupation and the revelation the US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China I completely forgot kids got shot and killed in a school chapel two weeks ago. This is Amerikkka.
September 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
With the recent SCOTUS ruling and the threat of Chicago occupation and the revelation the US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China I completely forgot kids got shot and killed in a school chapel two weeks ago. This is Amerikkka.
"Out of hatred for the cockroaches, the ants voted for the insecticide.
They all died... including the houseflies that did not even vote."
This is not a post about insects.
They all died... including the houseflies that did not even vote."
This is not a post about insects.
September 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"Out of hatred for the cockroaches, the ants voted for the insecticide.
They all died... including the houseflies that did not even vote."
This is not a post about insects.
They all died... including the houseflies that did not even vote."
This is not a post about insects.
Happy Sunday ☀️ If the sermon at your church or spiritual community isn't addressing the attempted fascist takeover of American cities (especially if it's your city) it might be time to find a new church. Unless spiritual bypassing is your thing. Also... I see you Chicago ✊🏾
September 7, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Happy Sunday ☀️ If the sermon at your church or spiritual community isn't addressing the attempted fascist takeover of American cities (especially if it's your city) it might be time to find a new church. Unless spiritual bypassing is your thing. Also... I see you Chicago ✊🏾
Not saying that kid would be alive today if his killer had to chase him down on foot and strangle the ever-loving life out of him for disturbing Sunday night dinner for the upteeneth time but ... wait ... that's exactly what I'm saying.
It's the fucking guns.
It will always be the fucking guns.
It's the fucking guns.
It will always be the fucking guns.
September 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Not saying that kid would be alive today if his killer had to chase him down on foot and strangle the ever-loving life out of him for disturbing Sunday night dinner for the upteeneth time but ... wait ... that's exactly what I'm saying.
It's the fucking guns.
It will always be the fucking guns.
It's the fucking guns.
It will always be the fucking guns.
Did you have disbarred lawyer for trying to overturn Presidential election, criminally charged in 2 states, and losing defamation case against election workers as Presidential Medal of Freedom awardee on your bingo card? Me neither.
September 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Did you have disbarred lawyer for trying to overturn Presidential election, criminally charged in 2 states, and losing defamation case against election workers as Presidential Medal of Freedom awardee on your bingo card? Me neither.
Happy Sunday. Please do what you need to do to retain your sanity and stay regulated while booing ICE from your neighborhood and adding rainbow chalk to crosswalks.
Both joy and civil disobedience are acts of liberation.
We will get through this.
necessarytrouble.substack.com/p/we-will-ge...
Both joy and civil disobedience are acts of liberation.
We will get through this.
necessarytrouble.substack.com/p/we-will-ge...
We Will Get Through This
Do What You Need To Do To Retain Your Sanity And Stay Regulated Because Both Joy And Civil Disobedience Are Acts Of Liberation
necessarytrouble.substack.com
August 31, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Happy Sunday. Please do what you need to do to retain your sanity and stay regulated while booing ICE from your neighborhood and adding rainbow chalk to crosswalks.
Both joy and civil disobedience are acts of liberation.
We will get through this.
necessarytrouble.substack.com/p/we-will-ge...
Both joy and civil disobedience are acts of liberation.
We will get through this.
necessarytrouble.substack.com/p/we-will-ge...
When yt ppl say they not racist but then call Black ppl uneducated, they telling us two things:
1. They don't understand what racism is.
2. They racist.
#taylortownsend
1. They don't understand what racism is.
2. They racist.
#taylortownsend
August 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
When yt ppl say they not racist but then call Black ppl uneducated, they telling us two things:
1. They don't understand what racism is.
2. They racist.
#taylortownsend
1. They don't understand what racism is.
2. They racist.
#taylortownsend
Another day, another school shooting but y'know... kevlar backpacks, bullet proof desks, metal detectors, armed teachers, shooting drills, drones, and never ever the guns.
August 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Another day, another school shooting but y'know... kevlar backpacks, bullet proof desks, metal detectors, armed teachers, shooting drills, drones, and never ever the guns.
Another day, another school shooting but y'know... trans and drag and DEI. #minneapolis
August 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Another day, another school shooting but y'know... trans and drag and DEI. #minneapolis
I almost gave in to scarcity consciousness and forgot one of the most important tools we have to dismantle capitilism: GENEROSITY.
Read "Calling Myself In" free for a limited time at necessarytrouble.substack.com/p/calling-my...
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Calling Myself In
HOW SCARCITY CONSCIOUSNESS ALMOST MADE ME BETRAY THE LIBERATION ETHOS OF NECESSARY TROUBLE
necessarytrouble.substack.com
August 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I almost gave in to scarcity consciousness and forgot one of the most important tools we have to dismantle capitilism: GENEROSITY.
Read "Calling Myself In" free for a limited time at necessarytrouble.substack.com/p/calling-my...
Read "Calling Myself In" free for a limited time at necessarytrouble.substack.com/p/calling-my...
It’s time again for my monthly installment of what I’ve been grateful for. What were you grateful for in June? Shared gratitude isn’t just a spiritual practice; it’s how we will survive this hellscape. Read now for free at necessarytrouble.substack.com/p/june-2025-...
June 2025 Gratitudes
A MONTHLY REFLECTION ON WHAT’S GOOD IN MY LIFE AND THE WORLD
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July 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It’s time again for my monthly installment of what I’ve been grateful for. What were you grateful for in June? Shared gratitude isn’t just a spiritual practice; it’s how we will survive this hellscape. Read now for free at necessarytrouble.substack.com/p/june-2025-...