We do not liberate ourselves. No matter how deeply I pressed into liberation theories and practices these past few weeks, I reached the same conclusion. We cannot be our own agents of liberation. Liberation is the action taken up by an agent of change who often does not even realize their defiant disruption becomes the […]
Willful Ignorance
by on March 12, 2019 Leave a Comment
For a long time, I have suffered from willful ignorance. When the film Straight Outta Compton was released a few years ago, I rolled my eyes. With my whole body. I was positive the last thing the world needed was the glorification of thug cop killers. I just knew this movie was going to justify the […]
What Does the Word “Racism” Trigger in You?
by on March 10, 2019 1 Comment
By Michelle Reyes | Twitter: @dr_reyes2 My eyes twinge and a sharp pain reverberates across the back of my head as the artificial light of my computer screen glazes over me. Tiny, black words hang large within its interface, words that I’ve been staring at now for hours, and each glance, each repeated visualization, feels […]
A Blind Woman’s Reading of Barbara Brown Taylor’s Learning to Walk in the Dark
by on March 3, 2019 Leave a Comment
[image: the sun streaming through the blinds with its shadow cast on the carpet and dark wooden piece of furniture. With the quoted text “I have to remind myself to listen more to the content than the idiosyncrasy of who’s speaking.”] By Ellen Bartlett I have been totally blind for more than three quarters of […]
Though My Voice Shakes
by on October 16, 2018 22 Comments
I’m going to let you in on a little secret: 95% of the time I feel entirely unqualified for the life I’m living. I have an incomplete Political Science/Literature degree. I dropped out of Bible school, I’ve spent the majority of the last 18 years as a stay-at-home mom and pretty much everything I know, […]
