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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 7h

May goodness, protection, and beauty flow around, over, and directly to my trans and gender nonconforming kin. May you know that someone somewhere is holding your glorious being close in their hearts and minds because they genuinely care about your existence, survival, and flourishing.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Never forget there have always been people who trust God enough to fight with God. Some of us are descended from a spiritual lineage of those unafraid to tussle with the Holy so there’s kinship to be found with those willing to wrestle the Divine.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m not a dominionist, give me control over others, justify war & harm in the name of God, and hoard power type Christian.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Even in grief we’ve found a modicum of peace knowing these besties are together again. Daddy Mack became an ancestor 4 years ago today & yesterday Sunni followed him into the eternal. However you pray/emit goodness, please do so for Lex, her ma, & me bc our earthside Mack Pack is a little smaller.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Some people don’t have regard or respect for children on par with what they have for adults and it shows. Children are worthy the same type of honor and care you give to adults because they are people.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’I’m grateful that folks are doing the work to disentangle themselves from toxic religion via deconstruction. AND/ALSO I’m dreaming and yearning to share space with those who are ready to build. Deconstruction is just the beginning!

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You cannot understand & rationalize militancy & resistance for Black US Americans but vilify Palestinians for doing the same damn things under the systemic occupation & apartheid of the Isræli government & settlers w/o naming people’s allegiance to Christian Zionism and US American exceptionalism.

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

AT&T Stadium reportedly is one of the venues that opposed Macklemore being on Ed Sheeran's bill. Worth noting that AT&T is hosting Kanye West in November.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We need to talk about @apple, folks concerned about exploitative labor in the DRC, and (communicative) disconnect between the two.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Being neurodivergent, mentally ill, chronically ill, or disabled doesn’t give you a free pass to be an asshole. You don’t get to use your marginalization as justification for your shitty behavior or mistreatment of others.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I served in CFP’s leadership & it was one of the most meaningful organizing experiences I’ve ever had. Even tho I had to step down, it’s important for folks called to address Christian Zionism & white Christian nationalism to step up. If this sounds like you fill out the interest form bit.ly/CFPLead

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I say Free Palestine because I believe in Land Back, reparations, abolition, and every liberatory project that restores space, power, resources, and wealth to indigenous, descendants of the enslaved, and colonized people everywhere.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I wish there was a way to convey the manifestations or degrees of chronic illness, pain, and disability that stop you from feeling like you.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It’s possible to thank God for the rain and curse the heavens for how storms affect you. I wish this was just me waxing poetric but I mean this literally and metaphorically... We needed rain but eff this wicked pain

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Me/CFS aka chronic fatigue isn’t just tiredness or wanting to nap. It’s waking up and realizing your limbs feel like lead and your face and mouth muscles are strained so you can’t move or talk well if you can do it at all.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

These lawmakers are waxing poetic about a self hating, self serving bigot warmonger who hurt his constituents and Americans of all sorts to cling to power that disappeared in death.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Lindsey Graham is dead. While death is a serious matter, oppressors and the wicked dying can be a source of joy and relief. Let’s forego that “let’s consider his family” mess. He should’ve considered them and chosen to live a better life.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It’s sad when ppl on the wrong side of liberation get spotlights but that can leveraged to talk about our freedom. I’m proud to be queer & for queerness’ subversion & embrace applying to my sexuality, gender, politics, & theology. Fuck normativity in all its forms. All of us getting free matters

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

“They loved us until we began to belong to ourselves.” I wrote these words after talking with my sis and us sharing that we could pinpoint the moment that things changed in our relationships with our fathers.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Happy Juneteenth! Today is a good time to reallocate resources to African American people, projects, and businesses that enrich and bless your life. Too often folks celebrate what Black folks produce without supporting Black people.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

New (progressive) glasses, who dis? Another fun facet of joining the 40+ club is I’ve been upgraded to progressive lenses. It’s an adjustment for sure but at least my glasses are cute.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I really wish all these other Christians who got smoke for me and other LGBTQIA+ folks had this energy to call for the eradication of ICE, trafficking, and detention centers like Delaney Hall.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

When I first came out 10 years ago, I did so because I wanted to be for others who I wished someone would’ve been for me. I didn’t have models of openly queer or pansexual folk coming up and for damn sure didn’t know any who were Christian or were ministers.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

May you encounter something beautiful that makes you smile and celebrate the creative energy that brought it into being. 💛

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Islamophobia is deadly & people failing to confront & root it out is why the Islamic Center of San Diego community now grieves 3 murdered community members & the aftermath of gun violence done by hate filled teens.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

A friend wished me a happy belated bday & I joked that I’m extra & since I turned 40 this year it’ll be my birthday until it’s not lolol. The truth is I believe in celebrating aliveness and want to invite folks to join me by sending me used & new copies of the art they love & helps them feel alive.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Hey beloveds! A family is in crisis and could use some help. They’re facing eviction and need immediate funds to keep their home. They’ve raised some but need $2700 more to catch up.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/05/2026

Our babies deserve/d better and the great hell of being a Black adult is knowing that you can't/couldn't protect them the way you wanted to

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Ahhhh! It’s the Eve of my 40th Birthday and I’m so excited! To turn 40, yes, but also bc I conjured the executive function to make a way for folks to celebrate me lol.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

My toxic trait is that I watch DIY home design and makeover content and think “I could totally do that” despite not picking up a hammer for anything other than to move it for years and depending on my wife to build almost all our furniture 😂

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I turn 40 in a lil over a month & am curious if I gave folk the means to, would you send me books, zines, or vinyls that hold meaning for you, esp things created by marginalized & minoritized folk? I want to learn & experience new things & literally hold in hand work that matters to ppl I care about

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

As a Christian, minister, & theologian, there’s no day I feel more divergent & further from what I was raised to believe like Easter. I see what beloveds not in this tradition can’t access bc everything is closed for our days alongside family chasms, fissures, & loss that makes folks ache.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

This Transgender Day of Visibility I give thanks for & speak protection around all of my kin whose beings are living proof that gender is expansive, evolving, complex, & dynamic.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Eid, Nowrooz, and Spring Equinox are all here. Blessings to all whose hearts and minds are considering what may come from renewal, emergence, and revelation. May you siblings be blessed and restored in the ways you seek and need 💕

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

In this moment where we are collectively grieving the *specific* accounts of sexual harassment, abuse, & assault, I want to offer a gentle reminder.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I’m speaking words of gentleness and peace over all who are impacted by the news of Cesar Chavez’s violence and assaults. For Dolores Huerta who at 95 is speaking about what she survived at his hand. For the women and girls he harmed whose names we may or may not ever know.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I’m writing a piece on doing what we can in this moment and am sending up prayers for the students, recent alum, and those expelled for calling for an end to genocide and apartheid in Palestine.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Thinking about & praying for folks in & in the diasporas of Iran, Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela, & every place or people pained & impacted by war, war profiteering, capitalist exploitation, those wanting to possess & wield power over others, & imperialism…

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Even though we live in a time where monsters and unimaginable evil are being revealed we are also in an age of unparalleled good. Not only do we have access to the wisdoms, ingenuity, and brilliance of our time, we also have tools for survival and flourishing that our elders and ancestors left us.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

There’s something wild and beautiful about the convergence of Ramadan, Lent, and the beginning of the Year of the Fire Horse. When I close my eyes and hold it all I just see strength, movement, and sacred flames.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

What if we started thinking about our rallying cries for justice as prayers & forms of intention setting? Fuck Ice. ICE Out. Fuck 12. Free Palestine. Never Again Means Now. Black Lives Matter. Stop Asian Hate. Protect Trans Kids. Stop Cop City. Land Back. We Shall Overcome.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

There is no Stonewall without our transgender kin. Don’t let your relative privilege as cisgender people stop you from locking arms in solidarity with our trans kin because this administration is trying to hard to literally and metaphorically erase them.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I just wanna gently remind folks that who we were ain’t necessarily who we are. I’m seeing a lot of folks criticizing Bad Bunny for sharing the stage with Lady Gaga & Ricky Martin who’ve previously been identified as Zionists and/or raised money for the IDF. 1/2

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Please stop saying you wanna go watch In The Heights after seeing Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance. LMM and his mess got you sounding foolish because Washington Heights is a predominantly Dominican neighborhood and that project had folks from different diasporas in it.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

One of the most moving images in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show was the scene where he gave a little boy watching his Grammy speech his award. So many of us wept seeing this & questioned if this baby was Liam Conejo Ramos, the little boy used as a pawn and then kidnapped by ICE in Minnesota.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I’ve had other Christians telling me I ain’t “saved” or reverent enough for their liking so seeing 3,666 followers sent me cause somebody is gonna call that a sign 😂. Me and God got jokes and I take my faith with a dab of irreverence and pinch of what others may call heresy.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

As we continue to see the horrors (& lies) unfold from the Epstein Files & the issues around AI deepfakes & image manipulation remember the scaffolding for disbelief was put up years ago. Here’s the flyer from a 2017 panel about #fakenews and #alternativefacts. These moments are connected Beloveds!

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

An essay with resources is coming but here are early morning 💔feels seeing ministry & scholar colleagues (intentionally) generate AI images the week news breaks we’re in “water bankruptcy”. AI can help, harm, or kill & we should be mindful in its use like we are with salt, UV light, or knives.

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Rev. Alicia T. Crosby @aliciatcrosby.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Folks are feeling a discomfort they can’t place re: Jelly Roll’s Grammy speech so I wrote a Substack to explan how that discomfort or ick is an emotional, energetic, & body response to subtle Christian religious violence you sense but have not been taught to see. open.substack.com/pub/aliciatc...

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Feeling the Ick about Jelly Roll’s Jesus Speech? You’re Not Imagining Things, You’re Responding to Subtle Religious Violence You Can Sense But Aren’t Trained to See

During the 68th Annual Grammy Awards, artists offered up one powerful acceptance speech after another and one of them stood out to me for all the wrong reasons.

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