Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Be Careful With AI...substack.comBe Careful With AISchool has begun and I’ve noticed students doing something that I never really paid attention to before. 010
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 04/09/2026“Will you choose moral apathy and the death of the heart or something new and more emancipatory for us all? There’s no gray area. Only fire or oxygen.”tamuralomax.substack.comThe Burning HouseOr is it burnt? 020
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“The miseducation of America is not a passport but rather a prison sentence. It ensures a greater socioeconomic, sociopolitical, and cultural divide.”tamuralomax.substack.comHigher Education is the EnemyOnly to those who hate critical thinking, a plurality of thought, and connected criticism 020
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 24/08/2026"I’m Black. Black with a capital B. Always. Period."tamuralomax.substack.comIs it Black or black (or Black or African American)?Lessons from an “author’s note” *This version is significantly edited.* 020
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 21/08/2026[...] "North American notions of merit are rooted in a myth of inherent white superiority, which determines laws, attitudes, outcomes, and otherwise. It’s used to erase and diminish Black and brown contributions while pretending to emphasize fairness."tamuralomax.substack.comI’m Going to Hold Your Hand When I Say This…DEI existed because meritocracy is a lie… 032
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026sigh...open.substack.comProject 2025 Performance Review: How Trump Achieved Every Goal of the White AgendaIn less than two years, the Trump administration has fulfilled every aspect of the Heritage Foundation’s plan to make America white again. 010
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 19/08/2026We are not the same.tamuralomax.substack.comOn Christine Wells-Wonsley and Mothering from the Other AmericaHow does a grieving mother to a lifeless and throatless son become the enemy? 031
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I had to break (because this world is so ugly and such ugliness impacts our mental health). The limited word count here is not enough for me. Please also follow me on Substack. 000
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 18/08/2026"Black scholars and scholarship present an intervention on modernity’s patterns of suppression and registers of legitimation...which has a history of dismissing black intellectual production as less than..."tamuralomax.substack.comPlease Get From By Me, Measuring Black Intelligence and Fitness with Uncritical Social Scientific MethodsThis isn’t the "gotcha!" you think. 010
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 17/08/2026tamuralomax.substack.comIs Antiblack Racism Not Exhausting?On Black Intelligence, Morality, and Humanity... 010
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Happy first week of school chirrun...substack.comOn #duragsandbonnets at HBCUsHappy first week of school chirrun... 000
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Yes, Jim Crow is here. And Yes, White Supremacy is the Problem. But it's more complicated than that...substack.comLomax Unhinged (@tamuralomax)We have to face the monster. 000
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Follow on Substack! tamuralomax.substack.com 000
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 01/08/2026We discussed Loving Black Boys on Marc Lamont Hill’s show, “Office Hours.” It was wonderful and necessary! www.youtube.com/live/ugkCTrk... @dukepress.bsky.social @marclamonthill.bsky.socialyoutube.comOFFICE HOURS: Black Feminist Perspectives on Racism & Revolutionary Mothering w/ Dr. Tamura LomaxYouTube video by Marc Lamont Hill 054
Reposted by Reluctant TheologianDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Our author events in August include one with Tamura Lomax @reluctantheologian.bsky.social, author of "Loving Black Boys" in Richmond, VA. Hope you can make it! buff.ly/FzXi3Z8 132
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 20/05/2026TONIGHT at 8pm!! If you were ever a Black girl…join us. If you care about Black girls…join us. If you love Black girls frfr…join us. If you want to engage how to make this world better for Black girls…join us. (linktr.ee/watchbeyondt...) 101
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Happening tonight! If you're wondering what Loving Black Boys and men in the most powerful and revolutionary way could look like...Please join us. If you're asking what black feminism has to do with black love and Black boys and men...Please join us! @dukepress.bsky.social 011
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Thank you @msmagazine.com for including Loving Black Boys in your “must read” list! @dukepress.bsky.social 042
Reposted by Reluctant TheologianDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 01/05/2026On the blog today we preview May’s new titles, including "Loving Black Boys" by Tamura Lomax @reluctantheologian.bsky.social. Check them out and don’t forget to use code SPRING26 for 40% off! buff.ly/SUBI9Zq 086
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Loving Black Boys takes an unexpected turn to Black boy's and mens' emotional health. In this chapter on "the talk," my son asks where is God and why do Black folks continue to experience what we experience after the murder of George Floyd... www.dukeupress.edu/loving-black.... Use code E26LOMAX. 010
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 27/04/2026What does it mean to be endangered and yet seen as a danger to the state and community? That’s what this book explores. #blackboys #blackfathers #blackmothers #revolutionarymothering #blackwomenwriters @dukepress.bsky.socialyoutube.comTamura Lomax, PhDNew Book Alert! Loving Black Boys 052
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 26/04/2026If you have ANY interest in Black boys and men... If you wish to be IN COMMUNITY with Black women and girls (across genders and sexualities)... Please pick up Loving Black Boys! www.dukeupress.edu/loving-black.... Use code E26LOMAX for 30% off. @dukepress.bsky.social 094
Reposted by Reluctant TheologianDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 05/03/2026In "Loving Black Boys," a love letter to her own sons as well as all Black boys and men, Tamura Lomax @reluctantheologian.bsky.social writes with understanding and urgency about the role of Black feminism in Black collective safety and survival. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/Grm6Diq 194
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Loving Black Boys is available for presale!! For 30% off, please use the code E26LOMAX. @dukepress.bsky.socialdukeupress.eduLoving Black Boys: A Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Mothering 054
Reposted by Reluctant TheologianDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Check out our Spring 2026 catalog, featuring titles by @reluctantheologian.bsky.social, @nancyhelicopter.bsky.social, @storti.bsky.social, @emilygdoucet.bsky.social, @iansociologo.bsky.social, @kirisanter.bsky.social, and @biidaasamose.bsky.social, among others! buff.ly/eAbC27z 0126
Reposted by Reluctant TheologianDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Read an interview with Tamura Lomax @reluctantheologian.bsky.social, author of "Freeing Black Girls," in @msmagazine.com: msmagazine.com/2025/10/23/b...msmagazine.com'Freeing Black Girls' and 'Loving Black Boys': Tamura Lomax on Revolutionary Mothering During Troubled TimesBlack Feminist in Public: Author of Freeing Black Girls and Loving Black Boys Tamura Lomax in Revolutionary Mothering During Troubled Times 185
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Good Sunday reading from womanist biblical scholar, Dr. Weems.rjweems.substack.comThey Say It's Biblical. I Say It's A Lie.What Conservative Christiantiy Calls Truth--and Why We Must Push Back. 051
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 15/07/2025I’m shocked at the depravity daily. But then I recall the 10 years I spent studying slave archives and testimonies and I am no longer surprised. 040
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Let us never forget that people voted for this. Forgetting is how we got here. And sadly, we are only in month seven. 050
Reposted by Reluctant Theologianjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/07/2025oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... 1311226664938
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 12/07/2025"The democrats are too orderly...they're almost too orderly for fascism." --@joyannreid.bsky.social 010
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 04/07/2025[...] "t would be a betrayal of our moral inheritance to not remember the true champions of American freedom on this day. Indeed, to forget them would mean losing the moral resources we need to revive American democracy."ourmoralmoment.substack.comJuly 4th in the Face of FascismMoral resources for Americans who know we’ve been betrayed 010
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 04/07/2025On this 4th of July I want to remind us that nothing is new under the sun. Baiting alligators with humans and/or using alligators to dehumanize, threaten, and torture humans isn’t novel. What also doesn’t seem to change is the depravity of a certain sector of people. 162
Reposted by Reluctant TheologianDrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Here is a look at the "riots" in LA..... "Who's got the power? People Power." Peaceful. No National Guard or Marines needed. #FreedomToDissent 27090533064
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 07/06/2025It's been a while. This world has been stressing me out. It's very hard to inspire hope. Sadly, that's the point. 120
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 13/05/2025"We are good because we love ourselves and others. Good black mothering, specifically, teaches Black children, amongst many things, self-love, mutuality, and to resist racist, heterosexist, heteropatriarchal, classist, and imperialist oppression everywhere."dukeupress.wordpress.comQ&A with Tamura Lomax, Author of Freeing Black GirlsTamura Lomax is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Michigan State University, author of Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture, and founder of The Fem… 030
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Listen to women. Listen to @msmagazine.com. We're seeing how white supremacist heteropatriarchy is working out. Nobody wins. Read a book. Start a book club. And begin with these books.msmagazine.comMay 2025 Reads for the Rest of UsEach month, Ms. provides readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. It’s finally springtime in the Midwest, the grass is turning green and flowers a... 052
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Sinners, the movie, explains so much. 031
Reposted by Reluctant TheologianDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Check out our wonderful titles coming out this May, including "Freeing Black Girls" by Tamura Lomax @reluctantheologian.bsky.social . #Memoir #BlackStudies buff.ly/BWX6cDK 082
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 24/04/2025We don't have to look at The Handmaid's Tale to understand how concerning it is for a nation, which refuses to protect and support children, to deploy women's wombs as a unit of labor or gross national product. We can look at Black slave women whose bodies were directly tied to the slave market. 192
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 24/04/2025America: We don't want a better world! We want a world where white men can win. Sit with that. 151
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 21/04/2025What I’m reading. If you care about Black women and girls you should too! 062
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Dear America, Never ever complain about oppressed populations holding you accountable for historical violations. Somehow you've managed to refurbish and merge racial segregation and holocaust mechanisms in one in the 21st century -- while denying the sheer demonarchy of each. 082
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Wow. This is us. Never say this isn’t America. Say instead this is not the America we want to be. 041
Reposted by Reluctant TheologianAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Crockett: It has taken Texas’ largest measles outbreak in 30 years with more than 500 confirmed cases and the deaths of two children for the secretary of health and human services to say what we already knew. The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the vaccin 447280327045
Reluctant Theologian @reluctantheologian.bsky.social · 07/04/2025New book alert. Let's get free! 30% off coupon code is E25LOMAX. @dukepress.bsky.social www.dukeupress.edu/freeing-blac... 074
