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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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@reluctantheologian.bsky.social, author of "Freeing Black Girls," in @msmagazine.com:
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They Say It's Biblical. I Say It's A Lie. What Conservative Christiantiy Calls Truth--and Why We Must Push Back.

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.

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.

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 4th in the Face of Fascism Moral resources for Americans who know we’ve been betrayed

[...] "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."

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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.

Here is a look at the "riots" in LA.....

"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.

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…

"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."

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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...

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.

Cover of Freeing Black Girls: A Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Motheringby Tamura Lomax. The cover has a teal-blue color scheme with the title in a large, translucent text. A black-and-white photo of a young Black girl is featured in a circular cutout near the bottom right. The subtitle is written in smaller white text at the bottom of the cover.

Check out our wonderful titles coming out this May, including "Freeing Black Girls" by Tamura Lomax @reluctantheologian.bsky.social . #Memoir #BlackStudies
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It’s so relevant and true. America has never admitted it, however. Thus, here we are. Repeating the same colonizing practices again and again.

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.

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.

Wow. This is us. Never say this isn’t America. Say instead this is not the America we want to be.

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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Economist cover: RUINATION DAY

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.

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