Dispossessed Lives – a Resource for Theo-Ethical Consideration

Dear Colleagues and Friends, Marisa Fuentes' groundbreaking work, Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (2018), provides a vital counter-narrative to the largely androcentric and Eurocentric canon of theological discourse (Cannon 1993). As womanist theology seeks to decenter the pervasive constructs of "Whiteness" and patriarchy within the field, Fuentes' meticulous excavation of the archival … Continue reading Dispossessed Lives – a Resource for Theo-Ethical Consideration

Dispossessed Lives – a Resource for Theo-Ethical Consideration

Dear Colleagues and Friends, Marisa Fuentes' groundbreaking work, Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (2018), provides a vital counter-narrative to the largely androcentric and Eurocentric canon of theological discourse (Cannon 1993). As womanist theology seeks to decenter the pervasive constructs of "Whiteness" and patriarchy within the field, Fuentes' meticulous excavation of the archival … Continue reading Dispossessed Lives – a Resource for Theo-Ethical Consideration

Dispossessed Lives – a Resource for Theo-Ethical Consideration

Dear Colleagues and Friends, Marisa Fuentes' groundbreaking work, Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (2018), provides a vital counter-narrative to the largely androcentric and Eurocentric canon of theological discourse (Cannon 1993). As womanist theology seeks to decenter the pervasive constructs of "Whiteness" and patriarchy within the field, Fuentes' meticulous excavation of the archival … Continue reading Dispossessed Lives – a Resource for Theo-Ethical Consideration

Dispossessed Lives – a Resource for Theo-Ethical Consideration

Dear Colleagues and Friends, Marisa Fuentes' groundbreaking work, Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (2018), provides a vital counter-narrative to the largely androcentric and Eurocentric canon of theological discourse (Cannon 1993). As womanist theology seeks to decenter the pervasive constructs of "Whiteness" and patriarchy within the field, Fuentes' meticulous excavation of the archival … Continue reading Dispossessed Lives – a Resource for Theo-Ethical Consideration

Dispossessed Lives – a Resource for Theo-Ethical Consideration

Dear Colleagues and Friends, Marisa Fuentes' groundbreaking work, Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (2018), provides a vital counter-narrative to the largely androcentric and Eurocentric canon of theological discourse (Cannon 1993). As womanist theology seeks to decenter the pervasive constructs of "Whiteness" and patriarchy within the field, Fuentes' meticulous excavation of the archival … Continue reading Dispossessed Lives – a Resource for Theo-Ethical Consideration

“Are You Still a Slave? Liberating the Black Female Body” – bell hooks

We recently had a conversation with various dialogue partners about citational politics. We noted that many of us were not only trained to privilege the knowledge production of "acceptable" White men, we were also consistently told that other academics were "not rigorous" enough without any evidence of this claim.