Sexuality
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Shame Based Fun
By Sasha Fisher When I was eight years old, I used to make up stories at night to help me fall asleep. They usually involved...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: From Pernicious Editing to Audacious Rescripting (Benediction)
In her Introduction to Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture (2002), an edited collection of essays engaging the hyper-presence of...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: What’s Next: a Bibliography, a Journal and You
Throughout the #BlackSkinWhiteSin forum I was asked the question, “so sis, what’s next?” The truth is, this work intentionally leads to a variety of openings...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: Sexual Autonomy Ain’t Schizophrenia: Deconstructing Bynum’s Ableist Rhetoric in “No More Sheets Pt. 2”
By Jade Perry Last Monday a good friend sent Juanita Bynum’s “No More Sheets Part 2” via inbox with the caption, “She’s baaaaack.” I clicked...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: Shielding Our Girls From Misogynoir…Even When It Comes From the Church
By Kimberly Peeler-Ringer I was getting a feel for my own preaching voice right around the time Juanita Bynum’s “No More Sheets” came out. I...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: “You’re Jiggling, Baby. Go ‘head, baby.”: Fighting Temptations to Move in the Engineering of Worship
By Alisha Lola Jones Ok, we don’t wear girdles no more, but have you heard of SPANX? Have you heard of something that keeps you...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: Black Feminist Thoughts on No More Sheets and Black Sexual Politics
During my senior year of college, sometime between 2002 and 2003, a good friend of mine—let’s call her Nicole—alerted me to Juanita Bynum’s No More...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: In the Name of Redemptive Self-Love: Stop! The Holyrolling Fashion Police
By Melanie C. Jones Since the European male’s predatory gaze upon African women on precolonial African soil, the Black female body in Western culture has...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: For Those Still Haunted by The Sheets (Why the Counter-Narrative Matters)
By Candice Benbow I remember the first time I watched Juanita Bynum’s “No More Sheets” sermon. Family members had just come back from the Woman,...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: No Redemptive Quality: Black Women’s Bodies, Black Church and the Business of Shame
By Melva L. Sampson In 1996, I sat in an auditorium-styled mega church sanctuary in Washington, DC along with hundreds of other mostly Black women...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: From Free to Freaks: Analyzing Juanita Bynum’s Dilemma of Holy and Ho
By Monique Moultrie When Prophetess Juanita Bynum’s most recent Facebook live video came to my attention it was yet another example of Bynum’s attempts at...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: What Juanita Bynum Gets Wrong: Reflections from A Pentecostal Woman Preacher
By Keri Day I remember encountering Juanita Bynum for the first time as a college student at a Church of God in Christ (COGIC) Jurisdictional...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: Received: Black Women and Our Talking Bodies
By Neichelle Guidry One Sunday during my childhood, a woman in my church approached me with a “gift.” “God has led me to give this...
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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: The Black Church, Black Women and Sexual Discourses of Resistance [Revised]
On Monday January 30th, as America spiraled out into unparalleled capitalist, sexist, hetero-patriarchal, homophobic, ableist, white nationalist, Islamophobic, devilish entropy, discombobulation and corruption, Dr. Juanita...
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Women for Women: Why we should be supporting each other, instead of tearing each other down
By Jordan Washington A few months back, there was an article on Entertainment Weekly about Chloe G. Moretz’s comments towards Kim Kardashians’ naked selfie that...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, When Being Sex Positive Isn’t Enough
By Chloe Sariego Since binaries are so early 2000s, I’m increasingly less interested in “pro” and “anti” porn debates. I’ve been a pro-porn feminist for...
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Becoming Each Other’s Harvest
Let us envision a society that does not empower the carceral state to intervene in the affairs of our families and communities, but instead builds...
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On Moving Forward
Removing the threat of prison is also likely to bolster odds that victims and their families come forward and challenge abusers. The prospect of losing...
