Imani

Am I being aggressive or am I just a Black woman who isn't being deferential? Am I being aggressive or am I just a Black woman speaking with confidence? Am I being aggressive or am I just a Black woman who knows more than you? Am I being aggressive or am I just a Black woman?

I will die on my feet before I live on my knees. I will not hide. I will not silence myself. I will be unapologetically, undeniably Black, queer, & leftist. I will not pretend that my ideology & praxis are anything but rooted in the liberation of all oppressed peoples. If that is a crime, so be it.

Atlanta Pride last weekend was literally so fun. I finally got to use my liberation theology knowledge to verbally smack down a homophobic pastor that tried to pray for my friend and me and got to give a big ole fuck you to the counter protesters at the parade

A master's thesis, text reads: Howard University Patriotism As Salvation A Thesis Submitted to the faculty of the graduate school of Howard University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Department of political science By Imani Kayla Bryant Washington, DC May 2024

I can finally say this is a fully published work!
www.proquest.com/dissertation...

Thanks!

I know no one cares and no one is going to read it but my master's thesis has finally been published and my physical copy is coming in the mail today 🥹

Gone and Forgotten What happens when the founders and exemplars of your faith were martyred and you are told to be a good Christian is to be martyred? What happens when your faith, which relies on martyrdom, is the domi...

American Christians have to seriously grapple with the persecution complex inherent in the faith but before we do that let's forget about kirk and his regressive memory
www.imanikbryant.com/post/gone-an...

Founding myths and future nightmares: How Christian Nationalism took root in America - Americans United Christian Nationalists see the expansion of civil rights and liberties to women, non-white people, the LGBTQ+ community, religious minorities and immigrants as a threat to not only their dominance, bu...

Christian Nationalism is a political and theological movement that is not simply authoritarianism, but a belief system that fuses God and government. The result is a modern theocracy cloaked in patriotism.
www.au.org/the-latest/a...

And another thing I think all Christians should be required to take a history of Christianity class because some of y'all don't know the difference between non canonical gospels, the apocrypha, and the writings of early Christian scholars and it shows

Ngl it's really weird that a lot of Protestants don't believe Catholics and Orthodox Christians are Christians. Like girl what are you talking about?? They were literally there first???? I'm not even Catholic or Orthodox. I'm Protestant. I just think some Protestants need to stfu

If you live by the sword you die by the sword

Please do

I'm at my goddamn limit and if one more bad thing happens to me I will be walking into the woods and never returning. Things have been Bad™ in my personal life and the one thing I'm holding on to is that I have to outlive that cheeto motherfucker but even that motivation is wearing thin

I wish one of my friends would find a way to sponsor me getting a free $100k

I hate landlords

Well guess what I don't have to imagine it! I get to live with the soul crushing reality of living in a shitty apartment that I can't escape! I just had my first panic attack in over a year! I'm doing so great 🫠

Further furthermore you don't have the money to move out because you can't get promoted at work and you live paycheck to paycheck. You can't afford to get a hotel room because of the aforementioned reasons and even though you have renter's insurance they only reimburse you on the back end

Imagine this: you've paid nearly $50,000 in rent to a person you've never met and they won't respond when there is mold growing in your air vents and you have asthma. Furthermore the dryer has been broken for nearly 3 weeks and you've had to rely on your friends and partner to wash your clothes

A vacation, $10k, and a bottle of good wine would fix me right now

My goal is to keep getting hotter and weirder

Dropout has to stop telling us how long episodes originally were because I want the 3 hour cute if Rulette now

I'm watching the Gilded Age and if Peggy Scott dies of tuberculosis or something I'm blaming John Green and Everything Is Tuberculosis

If I eat all the table bread is not my fault

Being the first person at a work dinner is so weird 😬

I need whoever made up the rumor that The Killers is a Christian band to come to the front please because you've done irreparable damage to online discourse

Pride Month Mood Board🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

God what I wouldn't give for a Brian David Gilbert unraveled about Baldur's Gate 3. I know he doesn't do them anymore but it would tickle me

Up next: Spelljammer!

In the end they slayed the dragon, his abyssal acolytes, the president of the university (his secret daughter), and saved the university