all up in your mind puts lumi on high alert and it’s so unintentionally funny 💀💀💀 she has not stopped looking around like somebody is breaking into our place since it started playing and she always does this
individualizing her actions only works for so long. after the viral tweets and tiktok videos end, the church’s violence does not. and she, and others just like her, get to continue on as violent because we refuse to reckon with the fact that the church is irredeemable.
kim burrell was produced by the same church that produced many of us, our parents, our grandparents, their parents, and their parents. unless and until we are committed to the destruction of the church itself, kim burrell will always exist—even if only by another name.
kim burrell is no more than a product of the church, which is no more than a vehicle through which antiblack violence is created, spread, and sustained. it is a culture and a global structure.
i always tire of the conversation around kim burrell eventually because it always stays about *her* and rarely makes its way to being about christianity being the violent, subjugating structure that produces/d kim and millions more like her.
many straight black folks can consume a show depicting (queer) black death, but a show depicting (queer) black love is too much to stomach?
they should interrogate that.
my ankle is still busted, my hair is 8 business days past due, and yet i am seriously sitting here considering going to renaissance night. priorities are in the pits of hell
even though this procedure to save my tooth is covered by my insurance, i just found out that i’m still gonna pay $1700 for it. very grateful for my job though, the receptionist was telling me i’m really lucky cuz most employers opt out of implant coverage