My work does not exist in a vacuum, and so much of my content has been influenced by others, especially BIPOC women who forged the ideals of liberation so much of today’s religious movements stand on. 

I owe where I am today because these women picked up a pen, sat at their computer, or spoke into a microphone. My hope is their words will equally inspire you in your own liberation. 

In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens, by Alice Walker

Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde

Womanist Midrash, by Wil Gafney 

Sexuality and the Sacred, edited by Marvin M. Ellison and Kelly Brown Douglas

Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God, by Kelly Brown Douglas

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Gloria Anzaldua

Longing for Running Water, Ivonne Gebara

Orishas, Goddesses, and Voodoo Queens, by Lilith Dorsey

The Queer God, by Marcella Althaus-Reid

Additional Influential Sources:

The Cross and the Lunching Tree, by James Cone

Theater of the Oppressed, by Augusto Boal

Other suggested Resources:

The Miricle of Mindfulness, by Tit Nat Han

Pussy a Reclamation, by Regina Thomasaur

Feminist Liturgy: A Matter of Justice, Janet R. Walton