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parenting theology violence

Beloved Community is Our Only Security

July 17, 2013April 26, 2020liz4 Comments on Beloved Community is Our Only Security

(My daughter’s birth day was Monday, but this post has taken me three days to write.) Today, July 15, is my daughter’s first birthday. I want to write her a letter filled with tenderness and joy. Instead, as I sit down to write, all I can think of is Trayvon Martin and the verdict announced this […]

violence

‘Art’ as Violence against Black Women’s Bodies

April 20, 2012liz3 Comments on ‘Art’ as Violence against Black Women’s Bodies

The image of a white woman laughing as she slices the genitals on a cake of a black woman’s body went viral yesterday. As the white woman (Swedish minister of culture Lena Adelsohn-Liljeroth) cuts into the cake, the head of the Black woman (Afro-Swedish man Makode Linde in blackface) screams in pain and the white people […]

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