Valleys of Bones, Tears, and Broken Bodies

As a Black Unitarian Universalist and one of the few Presidents of color serving at a Theological School, it is hard to described how cathartic of an experience it is to read Alexis Pauline Gumbs, “Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals.” The underlined lined in the image make me feel like wailing. They filled me with immense grief over the stories that many of us BIPOC leaders and scholars cherish and carry in our hearts but that are not necessarily ours to tell (would they even be believed?).