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Pamela Lightsey

@pamelalightsey.bsky.social
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Theology & Ethics Professor. Chicagoan. 🏳️‍🌈Womanist. Mixologist. Can become ecstatic over brown liquor and a good cigar.

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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I live in Chicago and had the pleasure of visiting the #ObamaCenter yesterday and today. People are there from all across the country. Some folks used the occasion to make the Center the site of their family reunion. Peaceful. Hopeful. Nostalgic. The staff are very kind. Wear very comfortable shoes.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This call for a boycott of “Asian” businesses needs to provide better information and not be driven only by anger. 👇🏾
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
This regime is evil! Trump is milking wealthy donors to help build his $300 million crummy version of the West Wing but won’t allow these workers to keep the gift that Tyler Perry gave them. Couldn’t be me. I wouldn’t give shit back. Gone within hours. www.11alive.com/article/trav...
11alive.com
TSA workers asked to return $1,000 gift cards given out by Tyler Perry at Atlanta airport
The gift was a huge morale booster at the airport, as he tried to ease some of the financial strain on workers during the government shutdown.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Plenty ICE agents at Houston (IAH) basically doing much of nothing except directing traffic. I took the time to talk with one very young agent. I recorded that conversation. As a scholar, I’m curious about why Black and Brown people are willingly doing this work. 1/
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I’m convinced there is at least one word that each of us has a hard time pronouncing or getting right. It’s a different word for each individual but we all have that one word that stunts us. Mines is…👈🏾 😂
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Good afternoon to everyone who woke up this morning, got a glimpse of the news and rolled over in bed while saying, “This muthafuckah!!” IYKYK
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Did Jeffrey Epstein really commit suicide? www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Details of Jeffrey Epstein post-mortem released in latest files - BBC News
Twenty new photos released on Friday show Epstein in the immediate aftermath of his death.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
MAGA will let you know their ignorance in oh so many ways.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Good morning! I’m convinced that the gospel song "Jesus Will Work It Out"is the lengthiest gospel song in the history of the Black Church. You’ll be flat on your back on a pew w/your feet still dancing and the soloist will still be ad libbing. “How you gonna pay your rent? All your money spent.”
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
On January 24, 2025, the Trump administration suspended the USAID program in Nigeria. On December 25, 2025, the Trump administration bombed Nigeria, supposedly to stop ISIS violence against Nigerian Christians. I am reading that the strike was welcomed by some Nigerian government leaders…🧵
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I have invested THOUSANDS on custom made furniture and yet…IYKYK
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I felt like cooking so I started out with something my family always loves me to make.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
This morning as I was thinking about the term “ceteris paribus.” I admit, it is a uniquely beautiful and yet difficult term for me to fully capture. While pondering that term, because I had thought to call her earlier, I began to wonder, “If my sister were not my sister would we be friends?” OMG.🥴
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I love my babies. I just wish they would get to the ask a little quicker. Or maybe I’m just part of the process for helping them learn artistry. 🤣
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
How about my auntie who is beginning to have memory problems just said this about her sister who cooked the meal and told her to come by to pick it up: “Yeah, you know your other aunt act like can’t nobody cook it like them. Sometimes you just have to gon’ head and act crazy. Let ‘em cook it!” #Done
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
This governor needs to get his information correct! But as I recall this GOP governor - endorsed by Trump - is being sued by ACLU for exceeding his authority by deploying the National Guard to DC. So, as far as I’m concerned, him, Trump & the murderer are all responsible. 🤬#NationalGuardShootingDC
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Her & Hershel literally wrapped themselves up in the slimy membrane of white supremacy. Now ol’ boy is telling her she sucked his booty hole and walked around looking like nobody loved her all while he sat back and watched her downfall. Black MAGA are some astoundingly mentally desolate people.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Well, @govpritzker.illinois.gov said what he said! As a Chicagoan, I am glad he is not backing down.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Watch carefully these anti Black culture & ex-gay pronouncements by Black people. Notice how VERY adjacent they become to white leaders. Watch the $ flow. Then remember the wedge white politicians always try to create w/in the Black community OFTEN close to elections using anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The caucasity of some of these white folks on this app. I will apply that block button to every one of y’all Kirk-dookies who take on the spirit of BooBoo the clown by trying to speak ill of THE exquisite revolutionary Dr. Angela Davis in response to my post.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
An orderly society is not indicative of a just society.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
You know today was a pretty good day! I conducted business, spent time with loved ones and remained unbothered by the murder of an evil white man.
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an elderly woman is sitting in a crowd of people and making a sad face .
ALT: an elderly woman is sitting in a crowd of people and making a sad face .
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The man was a GAWDDAMN racists and some of y’all out here once again with a basic “love the sinner hate the sin” style internalized oppression where you suck up bigotry for the sake of your childhood nostalgia. The mofo said what he said!
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
𝖧𝗈𝗐 𝗆𝖺𝗇𝗒 𝗐𝗈𝗆𝖾𝗇 𝗋𝖾𝗆𝖾𝗆𝖻𝖾𝗋 𝗁𝖺𝗏𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗒𝗈𝗎𝗋 𝖻𝗎𝗍𝗍 𝗀𝗋𝖺𝖻𝖻𝖾𝖽 𝖻𝗒 𝖺 𝖻𝗈𝗒 𝗐𝗁𝖾𝗇 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝗐𝖾𝗋𝖾 𝖺 𝗍𝖾𝖾𝗇𝖺𝗀𝖾𝗋? 𝖨 𝗁𝖺𝗍𝖾𝖽 𝗐𝗁𝖾𝗇 𝖻𝗈𝗒𝗌 𝖽𝗂𝖽 𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗍! 𝖲𝗈 𝗆𝗎𝖼𝗁 𝗌𝗈 𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗍 𝖨 𝗍𝗁𝗋𝖾𝗐 𝖺𝗇 𝗈𝗉𝖾𝗇 𝖼𝗂𝗀𝖺𝗋𝖾𝗍𝗍𝖾 𝗅𝗂𝗀𝗁𝗍𝖾𝗋 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝖼𝗎𝗍 𝖺 𝖻𝗈𝗒 𝗐𝗁𝗈 𝗍𝗋𝗂𝖾𝖽 𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗍 𝗐𝗂𝗍𝗁 𝗆𝖾. 𝖠𝗌 𝗁𝖾 𝗐𝗂𝗉𝖾𝖽 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖻𝗅𝗈𝗈𝖽 𝖺𝗐𝖺𝗒, 𝗁𝖾 𝗌𝗍𝖺𝗋𝗍𝖾𝖽 𝗐𝗁𝗂𝗇𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝖺𝖻𝗈𝗎𝗍 𝗁𝗈𝗐 𝗐𝗋𝗈𝗇𝗀 𝖨 𝗐𝖺𝗌 𝗍𝗈 𝗁𝗎𝗋𝗍 𝗁𝗂𝗆. 𝖧𝖾 #𝖥𝖠𝖥𝖮.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Allowing ICE to run around without proper ID was already a step too far. Now we have people running around impersonating police shooting politicians and their family. www.fox9.com/news/melissa...
fox9.com
Rep. Melissa Hortman, Sen. John Hoffman shot in 'targeted' shootings: Sources
Two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses were shot by someone impersonating a police officer, sources confirmed to FOX 9.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Ok. This blue space is about to get daily posts where I share my queer womanist reflections on the state of our nation. Today’s topic: law and order crackdowns on protests. In the history of this nation, its leaders often resort to violence to control the responses of its citizens to oppression. 1/
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
🧵 1/ I’ve been thinking about the history of African Americans (and I’m being intentional because of the diaspora). The years are approximate: Slavery 1619 - 1865 Reconstruction 1865 - 1877 Jim Crow 1870 - 1965 Civil Rights* 1954 - 1968 * I contend that began centuries prior.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Amerikkka is not concerned about ensuring Black liberation.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
100 years ago, el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz was born. This is one of my favorite short interviews he gave. He was so prophetic. This country has still not made progress. In fact, it is regressing. #MalcolmX
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I know there must be some people out there who, like me, would have a difficult time falling asleep looking at this hotel wall. IYKYK
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The way my whole soul is rejoicing by these videos. Those African angels and ancestors are sending a strong message. No more water. Fires this time.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🧵While ICE is helping this administration do irreparable harm to this nation, the felon Trump and other white supremacists in the administration are trying to resolve the impending loss of a white majority population. 1/
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The dumb ass Black people who have been running around talking about “send the immigrants back to where they come from” because they are “taking our jobs.” The ridiculous Latinx folks who voted for Trump proclaiming he was only going to “get rid of people coming into the country the wrong way.” 1/
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First Afrikaners arrive in U.S. under radically redrawn refugee program
The refugees were admitted to the U.S. after an executive order from President Trump, and under an expedited and unconventional process for the U.S. refugee resettlement program.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🧵I’m sharing with strong rebuke. This gay man’s perspective demonstrates the kind of internalized oppression AND uninterrogated bigotry that exists within the LGBTQ community. If you co-sign to this man’s post you tell me you agree with his position. 1/
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
This is on my heart today.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Folks wanted Trump to sit on that third row. But I kind of think the Vatican officials said something like this, “Naw don’t put him that far back. He’s a sleeper. Put him out front.”
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
There’s a major trade imbalance between China and countries in Africa. Like other nations, China extracts a lot of Africa’s natural resources. So, all this talk about getting your designer products cheaper by buying directly from China only means moving the middle-thief out of the process 🧵
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Some days I just feel like messin’ with people. I didn’t get enough sleep last night because my flight didn’t land until 0130 hrs. I am not well behaved when I haven’t had sufficient rest. Ring my doorbell when I’m tired and I just can’t guarantee which one o my personas will greet you.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I firmly believe what happens in American churches is a key to understanding what’s happening in American politics. The crisis in the Democratic Party shouldn’t be reduced to simply a generational disagreement. Neither is it simple right vs. left politics. 🧵
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Talk to the righteous elders and the ancestors. They will guide us.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
A lot of you all won’t follow me after this but my work as a theologian is about the liberation of oppressed people. This sermon contains the kind of harmful rhetoric LGBTQ people hear every Sunday. Attacking sex workers and trans people is the dirty work that supports white supremacy.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
At its root, Project 2025 seeks to build a nation run by wealthy white men with a sprinkling of people from other contexts. They have no concern for competence. Therefore, what is being established is a kakistocracy that effectively threatens our national economic, medical & military security.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Maine’s Governor Janet Mills is a real one. It’s the body language for me. Look at how she sips water after she coolly tells him, “See you in court.” Then when he tries to scare her about her future in politics she just waves him off as if to say, “Boy please! I’m not thinking about you!”
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Malcolm X was assassinated 60 years ago. Actor Ossie Davis called him, “our Black shining prince.” White people at the time tried to do what many white supremacists continue trying to do: demonize him. Yet his legacy and Black peoples’ love for him remains strong.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
What Trump is exhibiting is not dementia. It’s called “the will to ignorance.” Folks calling him “clever as a fox” have missed how stunningly ignorant he has been for decades. Q: How does he get away with it? A: His sycophants who don’t have a GAWDDAMN spine.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
My new writing goal is to be published by @haymarketbooks.org. May it be so.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
We can’t afford describing this political system with niceness and ambiguity. Call it what it is or shut up.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
In my best southern ebonics: Sumtymes, I jes get curious ‘bout what folks be wearing. No criticism. No jealousy. Just curious. Serena Williams Superbowl 2025. Now…Y’all can leave me and my little Apple Watch alone.
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Pamela Lightsey @pamelalightsey.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I hate to see Black people play into the hands of racists who have never accepted us as human beings. I’m sure he had his reasons, but I wish he had a proper team of consultants who would have warned him about the consequences of making that commercial. And during Black History Month! WTH!!!
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