Have you heard about #MillennialWomanism?
Millennial Womanism is an emerging concept developed by Liz S Alexander and Melanie C Jones that seeks to draw upon a unique womanist epistemological and methodological framework utilizing a millennial lens. Rooted in the work of womanism in religious studies, millennial womanism centers the voices of Black women of faith and justice born between the years of 1980-2000.
Millennial womanism offers a contemporary platform that makes space intentionally for doing womanism in the age of social media, Black Lives Matter and Say Her Name movements, trap music, mass incarceration, Afrofuturism, religious pluralism, a kaleidoscope of gender and sexual identities, and multi-dimensional realities of oppression (i.e. at the crossways of race, gender, sexuality, class, abilities, religion, etc.), to name a few.
Launched June 2017, The Millennial Womanism Project (TMWP) founded by Liz S. Alexander and Melanie C. Jones is an enterprise committed to enhancing the wellbeing of Black millennial women of faith and justice. Follow TMWP via Facebook, Twitter or our E-list for forthcoming initiatives!
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Every month, The Millennial Womanism Project features a Millennial Womanist to Watch (MWTW) doing incredible work in ministry, the academy (across disciplines) or social justice activism. Check out MWTW profiles on The Black Theology Project.
The Millennial Womanism Project and The Black Theology Project by Jamye Wooten of Kinetic hosts a digital miniseries Womanists Taught Us (WTU) hosted by Ministers Gabby Cudjoe Wilkes and Estee Nena Dillard to engage womanists across generations about their individual work, womanism, and pressing societal issues.
Last year, incredible preachers, professors, activists, and pastors from WomanPreach! Inc. and The Millennial Womanism Project wrote pieces reflecting on Gospel texts to celebrate Holy Week. This year, we'd like to share these writings with you. We share these un-updated pieces out of respect for our womanist beliefs about the harm of compulsory productivity. The women who wrote these pieces have been and continue to be on the frontlines in their communities and families. We strongly encourage you to follow their current work, organizations, and faith communities as well. They have been inspiring and comforting voices in these very difficult weeks. May their words be a blessing, a resource, a devotion, a study for you. As we both lament and celebrate this Palm Sunday, we hold onto the hope of The Good News. #womanishgospel #womanpreachnation #millennialwomanism See Here: https://www.womanpreach.org/womanishgospel