In this post, I unpack just one more toxic concept that I (un)learned from church and that is, "My thoughts, my body (my Self) is inherently flawed and not to be trusted".
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I'm not here to debate Ayesha's feelings, because feelings are very natural things and as stated in the interview, she is working with a support & care team (namely, a therapist) to do that inner workBut while folks are talking about feelings... I want to talk about the politics of desirability.
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#Millenialwomanism is a framework and a forum created by Liz Alexander & Melanie Jones
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Also titled: DiShan, the Matrix of Domination, & Deconstructing Binaries of "Holy / Horny"
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On centering Black girls & women through nutrition, herbalism, & garderning, healing as resistance, and cooking intuitively
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On living and grieving. Creating yet surrounded by death.
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In the tension between grief, struggle, and enlightenment, I learned a lot of valuable lessons about inward (and outward) survival and the conditions necessary for life in the times of death.
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Understanding purity culture in Evangelical spaces begs us to dig a bit deeper
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Reflections from my mental health and wellness journey
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In an earlier Pants in the Pew / Pulpit post, I talked about my mother's choice to use her body and style politics as a site of resistance: resistance to being regarded as inferior and in need of more feminization (Weitz, 2011). In KJ's story, there was yet another struggle: a struggle to resist her body being sexualized and objectified in a sacred space... The labor of modesty is often a one-sided labor.
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A story of ongoing healing from the effects of sexism in sacred places such as the heart - the site of intimate relationships - and the physical spaces in which we express our spirituality.
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