In the documentary Pay it No Mind: The Life and Times of Marsha P. Johnson, Marsha P. Johnson recounts how her faith
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The Gospel reading for this Advent season plunges us into a moment of high tension and profound theological conflict. In Matthew 11 and 12, people are trying to figure Jesus out. The two chapters build to a crescendo when Jesus
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It had been four years since Mom died, and the announcement of my impending gender change from male to female had hit Dad especially hard. He told me that he had spent three whole days with his pastor searching the scriptures to find anything that would support my changes, to
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On December 31, 1862, enslaved and free African Americans gathered for Freedom’s Eve. Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22nd, but it did not become law until January 1st. Gathering in secret, the soon to be liberated, sang songs, told stories and counted down the seconds until their
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On the wall above my desk, a Black transfem draped in blue, pink, and white holds up a hand in benediction, while a similarly robed transmasc figure receives a heavenly crown; a shirtless chest displays a sacred heart tattooed between top surgery scars; a trans angel announces that TO BE
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In the documentary Pay it No Mind: The Life and Times of Marsha P. Johnson, Marsha P. Johnson recounts how her faith is a bedrock of her organizing. At the end of the documentary, Marsha recounts talking to Jesus Christ at a young age about moving to New York City
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I’m scared right now. Government agencies I’ve taken for granted my entire life are disappearing. The sun is darkening. I’m scared when I hear of yet another transphobic law or policy that restricts the rights of trans people to exist in public spaces. Like a bathroom bill, or a policy
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At my grandma’s house was a giant willow tree. It stood at the edge of a small hill in a meadow, its grand curtain of leaves and branches draping round about it luxuriantly. It was easily ten feet across at its base and seemed to be the closest thing to
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The Gospel reading for this Advent season plunges us into a moment of high tension and profound theological conflict. In Matthew 11 and 12, people are trying to figure Jesus out. The two chapters build to a crescendo when Jesus heals a blind and mute man, an act of liberating
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Advent is not a season that rushes. It unfolds slowly, inviting us to pay attention, to hold both hope and sorrow at the same time. And today, on the third Sunday of Advent—Gaudete Sunday—we’re invited to rejoice. That’s what Gaudete means in Latin: “rejoice.” The candles on the Advent wreath
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Throughout history and in the world today, children are among the most marginalized of social groups, but their oppression often goes overlooked or is not taken seriously. Of course, the injustice specific children face will be exacerbated in some children more than others from certain intersections of identity. Black and
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