[Content Warning: The podcast episode and quotes below contain references to deaths of Black trans women.]
Podcast Rec - Almost Heretical with Christena Cleveland “Getting Free” (Released June 12, 2019)
"At some point, we have to ask ourselves, ‘Do I really want to be free?’ What does freedom look like? At some point, it is getting healed from caring if we are crossing the lines other people are creating for us." -Dr. Cleveland
"Whatever is good news to Black trans women is good news...I'm about as close to being a white man as you could possibly be and still be a Black woman...There are a lot of people lower than me on the ladder, with Black trans women being the lowest. And it all makes sense because the average life expectancy of a Black trans woman is 33 years old. And that's actually lower than was the life expectancy of an enslaved Black woman in 1830...What do Black trans women see as liberating, as humanizing, as affirming, as beautiful? That's the gospel. Any way that I can speak into that, act into that, create spaces that affirm that, call people out who challenge that, that's who Jesus is to me, that's what Jesus is about. Despite everything, despite all the deconstruction I've done, I'm still just so in love with Jesus and who Jesus was and is to the people who are on the margins." -Dr. Cleveland
Dr. Cleveland explained that good news stimulates love. How will we stimulate love today? How will we dismantle systems of oppression?
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