Brown Eyed Amazon Love Jesus, Seek Justice, Wear Cute Shoes. Thu, 14 Feb 2019 20:32:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 My Body. My Valentine. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/browneyedamazon/2019/02/my-body-my-valentine/ Thu, 14 Feb 2019 20:32:06 +0000 https://admin.patheos.com/blogs/browneyedamazon/?p=283 I’ve been looking at this photo a lot recently. I love myself in it. I remember with such perfect detail the moment in which I took it. It was May 2017 and I was preparing to give my first keynote at a conference. It was by no means my first time publicly speaking but a […]

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]]> When the Risk Of Hope Is Too Much https://www.patheos.com/blogs/browneyedamazon/2018/12/when-the-risk-of-hope-is-too-much/ Mon, 03 Dec 2018 16:55:37 +0000 https://admin.patheos.com/blogs/browneyedamazon/?p=252 Yesterday began the Advent season. I have the pleasure this year of contributing to an Advent tradition, the New Dawning Light journal. Some of the other contributors this year are Onleilove Alston, Shawn Casselberry, Corey Pigg, Jose Humphreys, Britney Winn Lee, Bruce Reyes-Chow, Hugh Hollowell, and Shawn Casselberry. The journal is an initiative of Walking […]

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]]> I Want To Throw My Scale Away And Buy More Crop Tops https://www.patheos.com/blogs/browneyedamazon/2018/10/i-want-to-throw-my-scale-away-and-buy-more-crop-tops/ Sat, 06 Oct 2018 22:02:08 +0000 http://admin.patheos.com/blogs/browneyedamazon/?p=225 “You can’t make me feel uncomfortable in my ancestors’ skin” – Elk Bone No single relationship in my life has ever been as tumultuous as the one I have with my own body. My struggle with my body and my relationship with food began quite young. Some of my most vivid memories as a child […]

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]]> Hotheaded Peter, Unrestrained Cardi, and Overwhelming Me. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/browneyedamazon/2018/09/hotheaded-peter-unrestrained-cardi-and-overwhelming-me/ Mon, 10 Sep 2018 21:48:26 +0000 http://admin.patheos.com/blogs/browneyedamazon/?p=192 When you’re brown, Latina, fat, a woman, and grew up lower-class you can’t speak. You can’t feel. Every instinct to express yourself is weighed against these questions: What stereotype am I fueling? Will I “intimidate” myself out of a job? a friendship? a relationship? Will this prove I really am too much? Not enough? Part […]

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]]> Traumatizing Children Of Color Is Written Into Our Country’s DNA https://www.patheos.com/blogs/browneyedamazon/2018/06/traumatizing-children-of-color-is-written-into-our-countrys-dna/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 19:04:20 +0000 http://admin.patheos.com/blogs/browneyedamazon/?p=182 There is this cyclical injustice where trauma is inflicted, the traumatized lay their wounds bare attempting to awaken the abuser to what they have done, the abuser momentarily awakens but subsequently forgets, and trauma is inflicted once more. Again and again… like clockwork. The collective pain of the brown community cannot and should not ever […]

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]]> Weekend Friendship Retreat: Better Than A Year of Therapy https://www.patheos.com/blogs/browneyedamazon/2018/05/friendships-and-chosen-family/ Mon, 21 May 2018 19:25:23 +0000 http://admin.patheos.com/blogs/browneyedamazon/?p=143 Our Maker is a relational being. Creator, Son, and Spirit. Like them, we are made to be in intimacy with one another. We crave companionship, understanding, loyalty, and love. For many, those needs are met from the moment we are born and placed into the safety of a parent’s arms. That child is surrounded by […]

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]]> Home Is About Who You Are When You Are There https://www.patheos.com/blogs/browneyedamazon/2018/04/home-is-about-who-you-are-when-you-are-there/ Mon, 30 Apr 2018 21:39:18 +0000 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/browneyedamazon/?p=125 Home is a difficult concept for me. Immigration, failed adoption, rehoming, and being a ward of the state make it impossible to know the permanence or security of a home in the way most do. I aged out of the system when I was 17 years old. By that time I had lived in approximately […]

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]]> #ChurchToo – Honoring the Experiences That Reside In the Gray https://www.patheos.com/blogs/browneyedamazon/2018/04/churchtoo-honoring-the-experiences-that-reside-in-the-gray/ Sun, 22 Apr 2018 22:49:23 +0000 http://admin.patheos.com/blogs/browneyedamazon/?p=77 As we begin to hear more accounts like the events between Grace and Aziz Ansari and numerous women and Bill Hybels, how do we engage these experiences in light of the greater conversation surrounding gender-based violence and sexual assault? In the midst of the #MeToo and #ChurchToo movements, how do we honor the stories of […]

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]]> Cachapas, Iconoclasm, and Identity https://www.patheos.com/blogs/browneyedamazon/2018/04/cachapas-iconoclasm-and-identity/ Thu, 12 Apr 2018 20:27:12 +0000 http://admin.patheos.com/blogs/browneyedamazon/?p=35 I speak endlessly on identity. The audience and the details vary but at the heart of everything I do, personally and professionally, there is most often some study of identity. The spirituality I practice, the posture I take when pursuing justice, the art I create, and the very name I call myself are all connected […]

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