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Tag: white God

Posted on December 16, 2018December 17, 2018

A colonized spirituality

I prayed all the time when I was younger. And whenever I did, I could not help but imagine a white face to whom I addressed requests and express my gratitude to. A white god. A white Jesus. A white savior whom I felt indebted to for taking the time to listen whenever I brought …

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I felt inspired after rewatching @chimamanda_adichie’s talk on ‘The danger of a single story.’ She notes, “The consequence of the single story is this: It robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult.” I invite you to ponder on the following today: When were the times my assumptions about a person/a community of people were corrected? How did it feel? What were my reflections? How have my default positions about certain communities hindered me from seeing, experiencing, and receiving? When is it difficult for me to welcome other possibilities about a person different from me?
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I am currently reading + writing on xenophobia and the Western church for a speaking engagement this weekend. Although I’m only an hour in, I am already depleted, and my body feels so beat up. For many of us scholars of color doing antiracist and decolonizing work in the academy, we feel pain from engaging collective and systemic oppression in historical, sociological, etc. textbooks and discourse, because what we engage with is NOT theoretical. It is common for us to cry whenever we read scholarly resources on racism and colonization because it is our past and present reality, and we do not have the luxury of separating it from our experiences and our bodies. For some of us, it is unacceptable and even unimaginable to think that our research will only exist on paper. No, our research began with the fiery hope to reform policy, the sciences, education, culture, health care, relationships + friendships, the future of our descendants, and the freedom of our people. Many of us do not have the luxury of solely intellectualizing whenever we study, because the physical burden is real, and perhaps even passed down (for some of us, our ancestors were invasively forced to be experimented on in the name of science and the humanities. So, I’m not surprised that when we, their descendants, participate in academia, their resistance and anger are deep in our bones in the form of exhaustion, disorientation, or one’s inability to concentrate). So to my fellow folx of color in the academy, your labor is multifaceted, and the extent of your capacity has a lot of meaning. You are holding and feeling more than your peers from dominant groups are, so you’re not crazy. More importantly, you’re not lazy. Pace yourself. Take a breath. Listen to your body. I’m proud of us.
There’s nothing more amusing for theology scholars than Judith beheading Holofernes. Cheers to good friendships + new beginnings.
before the day concludes, may this permanent post of you be a testament to how much ily with all my ambivalent heart. missing you here, dear friend. happy birthday
Out on a poetry night date with my favorite Leo 🦁 this photograph is giving me NYC vibes, so I wonder if us TCKS fit well in that city landscape (or London)

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