#BlackSkinWhiteSin: No Redemptive Quality: Black Women’s Bodies, Black Church and the Business of Shame
In 1996, I sat in an auditorium-styled mega church sanctuary in Washington, DC along with hundreds of other mostly Black women anxiously waiting for then Prophetess Juanita Bynum to make her way to the stage. After experiencing a shady love triangle, a gentle, socially conscious and lasting love entered my life. I invited My Love to attend service with me that night but he declined. He always looked perplexed by my invitation to attend church. He couldn’t understand how a woman, who in his opinion was so open-minded in others area of her life, was so tethered to the oppressive theology and doctrines often found in the Black Church.