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The Word in Black and Red Pod @twibar.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Cancel your subscriptions to the New York Times and support the journalists actually reporting the news.

Avery 🏳️‍⚧️🫱🏼‍🫲🏾🇵🇸 they/ze @avery-arden.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

A federal agent kills a man & first course of action is to check whether he has a criminal record to use against him. After all, he's a white citizen, can't rely on stereotypes to justify his death. But if powerful people have a vested interest in destroying your reputation, they will find a way.

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Avery 🏳️‍⚧️🫱🏼‍🫲🏾🇵🇸 they/ze @avery-arden.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Just posted an essay on the role of innocence in the defamation & defense of victims of state violence—only to be immediately greeted by another ICE killing. It's been mere hours, and already #Pretti's life is being scoured for fodder to defame him with... medium.com/@blessedaret...

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Renée Good, Queer Faith, and the Issue of Innocence

Good belongs to a multiracial, multi-gendered, multi-faith “sacred lineage” of people who have lived and died for justice. How can we use…

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I ended the night as the guest of queer, observant Jews who have been organizing nonstop against ICE. Observant Muslims fed us and everyone else at protests. An indigenous organizer spoke to us of the creator. Every church we saw had messages of inclusion and antifascism on their marquees.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

But 100 clergy members were arrested protesting ICE yesterday. The vast majority of the people arrested during the general strike were there in the name of their god or gods.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...

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Donate to Help Equip Twin Cities Legal Observers with PPE, organized by Jac Kovarik

I have been involved in rapid response in the Twin Cities area since the b… Jac Kovarik needs your support for Help Equip Twin Cities Legal Observers with PPE

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.

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Hazie @hazie.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I’m guessing I’m in some sort of starter pack about COVID, Long COVID and or masking & mitigations. I have gained over a 1k followers and and somewhat overwhelmed. Thank you to whoever included me. I’ll try to live up to your recommendation. Masks Keep Us Safe. xo

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Avery 🏳️‍⚧️🫱🏼‍🫲🏾🇵🇸 they/ze @avery-arden.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

"If we regard #Isaiah as speaking only of Jesus, as telling only our #Advent story, then what does our interpretation say about our [Jewish] friends and contemporaries? It is vital to affirm that God's presence—Immanuel—takes a different, but valid, form for our faithful neighbors." -Tyler Mayfield

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Avery 🏳️‍⚧️🫱🏼‍🫲🏾🇵🇸 they/ze @avery-arden.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

This #Advent, check out Tyler Mayfield's book on resisting #anti-Judaism when pairing #Isaiah with Mark/Matthew. This article summarizes part 1's exploration of how to simultaneously honor Advent traditions, draw from Isaiah’s wisdom, AND respect Jews' vibrant, living faith. #progressivechristianity

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Adressing Advent Anti-Judaism

Summarizing the opening portion of Tyler Mayfield’s book Unto Us a Child Is Given: Isaiah, Advent, and Our Jewish Neighbors…

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Avery 🏳️‍⚧️🫱🏼‍🫲🏾🇵🇸 they/ze @avery-arden.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Hi there, I’m not sure I understand how your replies relate to my thread.

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Avery 🏳️‍⚧️🫱🏼‍🫲🏾🇵🇸 they/ze @avery-arden.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Even when others try to strip us of dignity, status, or autonomy, Christ brings us into joyous, abundant life. The cross is not the end of the story. - Excerpt from the Blessed Are the Binary Breakers podcast, "A Queer Easter Vigil: resurrection after religious trauma" #transgenderchristians

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Digital art of the risen Jesus, with a glowing cloudy sky behind him. He has brown skin, top surgery scars, and bloody stigmata; he is smiling with one hand raised.

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Avery 🏳️‍⚧️🫱🏼‍🫲🏾🇵🇸 they/ze @avery-arden.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

When we dare to be who God made us to be, society's spotlight may make us feel like one raw wound, exposed & vulnerable. We may even be subjected to social death. But we refuse to be ashamed any longer for being the beautiful embodied spirits, inspirited bodies God calls beloved. #queerchristians

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Avery 🏳️‍⚧️🫱🏼‍🫲🏾🇵🇸 they/ze @avery-arden.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

But through the cross, Jesus transformed shame and death into new life. Though he was the one who was stripped, his execution exposed both the evil of Empire, and Empire's ultimate fallibility.

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Avery 🏳️‍⚧️🫱🏼‍🫲🏾🇵🇸 they/ze @avery-arden.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

In school and at work, at home and in church, we face every manner of violence. And when these evils wound us to the point of suicide, or when we are murdered, our deaths are lifted up as a warning: "see what happens when you refuse to comply?"

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Avery 🏳️‍⚧️🫱🏼‍🫲🏾🇵🇸 they/ze @avery-arden.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Transgender & intersex persons are likewise made into a spectacle. Our bodies & private medical histories are broadcasted. New laws attempt to strip us of our God-given free will, denying us the autonomy to respond to God's invitation to participate in the ongoing creative act that is embodied life.

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Avery 🏳️‍⚧️🫱🏼‍🫲🏾🇵🇸 they/ze @avery-arden.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

If you dared to resist the Roman Empire, you knew what end awaited you: You'd be stripped bare before a crowd and suffocated on a cross, your naked, battered flesh twisted into a warning to others to comply — or die. This is how modern Empire functions as well. #crucifixion #godoftheoppressed

Painting of Jesus being stripped by two roman soldiers, the vertical pole of the cross behind him. Text reads: "Above all else, crucifixion was a spectacle: the Roman Empire making a show of its brutality in order to terrorize dominated peoples into submission.

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Avery 🏳️‍⚧️🫱🏼‍🫲🏾🇵🇸 they/ze @avery-arden.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

…who God made us to be, fully in good relationship w/ creation & other humans, when we Escape capitalism & its endless onslaught of “not enough,” of “work harder or you’re worthless.”) Hope this makes sense & is clear I’m not disagreeing w/ you, just adding on! It is good to be in God, with you. 💚

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Avery 🏳️‍⚧️🫱🏼‍🫲🏾🇵🇸 they/ze @avery-arden.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Thus emerges an extension on our purpose being simply to Be: To be in God. To be exactly who God made us. And to be /in relationship/ —with God, with other created things, and with one another. As you wrote, we can Be in this way without producing a damn thing! (Indeed, we can really only fully be

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Avery 🏳️‍⚧️🫱🏼‍🫲🏾🇵🇸 they/ze @avery-arden.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

However, I’d push that there’s a little more to our “purpose.” We see this by looking to the Being in whose image we are made: Truly, God is God even if God never created a thing! But, being Triune, God is NOT God outside of relationship. So neither are we /us/ outside of relationship.

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Avery 🏳️‍⚧️🫱🏼‍🫲🏾🇵🇸 they/ze @avery-arden.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

You’re absolutely right that Being Productive, especially as capitalism defines productivity, is NOT necessary to fulfilling this purpose. And like all Creation, we do indeed glorify God simply by being whom God made us to be. Simply by /being,/ by resting inside our Creator, who is BEING.

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Avery 🏳️‍⚧️🫱🏼‍🫲🏾🇵🇸 they/ze @avery-arden.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I’m not usually fond of the older Reformed confessions, but I do appreciate Shorter Westminster Catechism on this topic [when edited for patriarchal language lol]: Q. 1. What is the chief end of [humanity]? A. [Humanity’s] chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy [Them] forever.

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queerchurch.bsky.social @queerchurch.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

"Don't fight hate with hate" is gaslighting meant to silence the oppressed and maintain the status quo

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Avery 🏳️‍⚧️🫱🏼‍🫲🏾🇵🇸 they/ze @avery-arden.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Live like a better world is possible. Even — especially — when it seems utterly impossible.

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Avery 🏳️‍⚧️🫱🏼‍🫲🏾🇵🇸 they/ze @avery-arden.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

A prophetic challenge to churches that call themselves affirming and cishet individuals who would be allies — as well as to all of us who claim to support marginalized communities not our own. Read and ponder proactively: How far are you willing to go? how much are you willing to risk?

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Avery 🏳️‍⚧️🫱🏼‍🫲🏾🇵🇸 they/ze @avery-arden.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

To prevent overwhelm, choose just a few of the pressing issues to focus on — or even just one. Just one that you make your passion, devote time and energy to. We all are more helpful digging deep, not spreading ourselves thin. You don’t have to keep on top of it all — that’s what community is for.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Over 50% of nonviolent movements to overthrow governments are successful within one year of their peak. The key is to engage over 3.5% of the country, a cross-section of society—clergy, kids, grandmas, teachers) using DIVERSE & CREATIVE tactics, with women in leadership. We can do this. More:

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On Organizing

time to level up / an early draft of a playbook

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The Word in Black and Red Pod @twibar.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Scream this from the rooftops. The whole thread should be required reading for Christians, but this part especially. The two greatest commandments in Christianity come from the Pharisees. Jesus is literally quoting Rabbi Hillel.

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The Word in Black and Red Pod @twibar.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

We're baaaaack! New episodes drop every Monday. open.spotify.com/episode/7BRz...

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