Let My People Go
Mary Lambert, the Christian, queer, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter featured in Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ “Same Love,” sings of trauma and triumph in her latest album, Grief Creature. Abuse, rape, shame, depression: Lambert faces them all. “Sometimes I call it drowning,” she says. “Sometimes I call it Moses.” Tender Heart Records.
I’m Not Yours
It has never been easy to be a black woman in America. In her latest collection We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems, jessica Care moore speaks of the horrors and hurdles she and other black women encounter. In 2020, it’s well past time for black women to own themselves. Amistad.
All Who Labor
Resisting injustice can take a lot out of us. With her book Rest for the Justice-Seeking Soul: 90 Meditations, minister and activist Susan K. Williams Smith, a chair of the Ohio Poor People’s Campaign, hopes to revive our energy by guiding us back to the Holy Spirit. Whitaker House.
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