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Could you not stay awake one hour? Could you not stay woke? You were woke when it was cool but silent when the term was bastardized & became the newest way to say the N-word. When defund the police was too woke, a lot of folk went back to sleep. Could you not stay woke? #Sermon
#PalmSunday All Saints Church, Pasadena 7:30 and 10 am Pacific. Could you not stay awake one hour? Could you not stay woke? Sermon: allsaints-pas.org/live-stream/
Thought of @om3 when I wrote this line for my sermon: Lady Day, our gardenia scented blues prophet... #PalmSunday
Had the pleasure of a couple of encounters now with the brilliant @WilGafney regarding her #WomensLectionary project. I'm extremely excited to see where it goes, and having lots of thoughts about translation and gender and such matters.
I feel like I'm fortunate to have a bunch of friends who do translation in various forms (h/t to @jeannette_ng here, who does fascinating things with Chinese poetry). Yet even for me it's so easy to forget that the Bible as we read it in English is not the original text.
What we're often nowhere near aware enough of are the choices made in translation to masculinise language that was originally neutral or feminine, to tone down or euphemise troubling passages, and generally communicate the text through a non-neutral lens of white patriarchy.
