Real Talk Episode 3: M and Vicki on Whiteness
Rev. Vicki Woods and Rev. M Barclay share an authentic conversation about whiteness, gender, sexuality, spirituality, and betrayal. Their experiences of committing to racial justice with an intersectional lens emphasize starting points of trans community and lesbian identities and justice demands. They call white folx to decenter and critique whiteness, actively refuse to pretend that white power and privilege do not exist, and exemplify how this undertaking must infuse Christian theology, spirituality, and lived practices.
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Real Talk Episode 2: Althea and Kai on the Frictions of Solidarity
Rev. Kai Greer and Rev. Dr. Althea Spencer-Miller discuss the frictions of solidarity across African American and immigrant Caribbean American Black political realities and within the whiteness of LGBTQIA+ church movements for LGBTQIA+ inclusion. This candid conversation dives into the shared cultural resources of blackness that can both fracture and affirm, and the scripture that encourages the queering racial justice movement work of journeying together.
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Real Talk Bonus: Subversion Is Now the New Song
Love rebukes injustice, calls out the oppressor and resists evil in any form of transgression.
Thank you God, “subversion is now the new song.”
A visual poem written by Rev. Carlos Samuel Reyes-Rodríguez.
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Real Talk Episode 1: Paola and Carlos on Radical Disruption
Paola Andrea Márquez Leones and Carlos Samuel Reyes Rodríguez offer frank critiques of the hypocrisies of Christianity’s “love your neighbor” message and harmful adaptations even within racially marginalized communities. They suggest a need for more radical disruption of those patterns and theology envisioning God as an immigrant.
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