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
Thought of @om3 when I wrote this line for my sermon: Lady Day, our gardenia scented blues prophet... #PalmSunday
"There was a mama’s boy from Nazareth who came into town like the son of Bathsheba and not like the son of David." ~ #PalmSunday sermon. #WomensLectionary
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A trans person who identifies as male and uses he/him pronouns is male. He might self identify as trans, as a trans man or have his own self identifying language. He might also have acted out one of the most vicious & violent male scripts. Even if he looks like a girl to others.
The horror of this event is neither managed nor mitigated by blaming a person's sexual & gender identity or even difficulty growing up in a world that sees & labels you one way when you know something different about yourself from the time you're too young to have the language.
Easy access to military grade weapons means a person experiencing any emotional or other difficulty can initiate themselves into this particular American death cult by destroying lives and families.
Why #queerthebible? Because of its violent application to LGBTQIA+ folk, particularly kids and role of Bible in anti-gay laws and religious identities of queer folk. Need for new/other interpretive paradigms. @lhuber01