Antiblack and white supremacist religions and practices, then, are deceptively anti-faith. And the consequence of grounding life, existence, and worship…
The just shall live by faith: Living without metaphysical guarantee in an antiblack world
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Neoliberalism and ambient apocalypse
In this dialogue, Courtney Bender and Todne Thomas discuss monumentality, slow violence, and sightlines of neoliberalism and apocalypse; the affective…
A Witness in our spirits
Considering how Black people in America might go on living and loving life, facing seemingly interminable political impossibility, I want…
Bearing witness to testimonies of antiblackness
Social justice movements such as Black Lives Matter highlight the unequal social position afforded Black people and disparities in their…
Distorted mirrors: Toward a clear gaze on Black suffering
Considering that this global pandemic only exacerbates the existing material, psychological, ontological, and metaphysical violence wielded by an anti-Black world,…
A theodicy of the unliving, or, Why I won’t teach my Black Lives Matter class anymore
For the past three years, I have taught a course entitled “#BlackLivesMatter and Religion.” [. . .] But after this…