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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 6h

“I know the world I would like to live in. It’s in my head, but I try my best to live it now.”

Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Lived a Long, Beautiful Life

One of our most influential and remarkable trans queer elders — Miss Major Griffin-Gracy — has died at the age of 78.

www.autostraddle.com

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 9h

It's bitterly ironic that I missed this. Miss Major was a hero of the trans liberation movement but was forgotten and abandoned to poverty her entire life.

RIP. You'll always fucking be here. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Miss Major, trailblazing US trans rights activist and Stonewall veteran, dies aged 78

Longtime organizer and founder of House of gg earned reputation as champion for liberation of Black trans women

www.theguardian.com

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 10h

AND ITS GONNA BE SO GOOD

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 10h

Please sign up! We're punching *way* above our weight here lmao

Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 10h

Insanely excited about this - one of the most important Womanist theologians in the world talking about the power of storytelling in oppressed communities.

Online, 28.10.25, 19:00-20:30 (UK)

londonjesuitcentre.churchsuite.com/events/eigp7...

Story Telling: A Sacred Act of Justice & Hope (Black History Month Lecture, Dr Kelly Brown Douglas) (28-Oct-2025)

Join us for our annual Black History Month lecture, featuring the trailblazing Womanist theologian, Rev Dr Kelly Brown Douglas.Story Telling: A Sacred Act of Justice and Hope"What happens when people'...

londonjesuitcentre.churchsuite.com

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 10h

Insanely excited about this - one of the most important Womanist theologians in the world talking about the power of storytelling in oppressed communities.

Online, 28.10.25, 19:00-20:30 (UK)

londonjesuitcentre.churchsuite.com/events/eigp7...

Story Telling: A Sacred Act of Justice & Hope (Black History Month Lecture, Dr Kelly Brown Douglas) (28-Oct-2025)

Join us for our annual Black History Month lecture, featuring the trailblazing Womanist theologian, Rev Dr Kelly Brown Douglas.Story Telling: A Sacred Act of Justice and Hope"What happens when people'...

londonjesuitcentre.churchsuite.com

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 11h

They've got away and have three nights of accommodation, but are obviously still incredibly vulnerable and desperately need more support

Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨This Ugandan LGBT group have been raided and urgently need to relocate. You can help by donating to their GoFundMe - it's for a recently completed project, but includes an update about the situation. DM @theatremonk.bsky.social for further verification. www.gofundme.com/f/purchase-h...

Donate to Purchase House of Grace as a Center for LGBT People in Jinja, organized by Cole Matson

In Jinja and across Uganda, LGBTQ+ individuals face growing i… Cole Matson needs your support for Purchase House of Grace as a Center for LGBT People in Jinja

www.gofundme.com

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Br. Christian Matson @theatremonk.bsky.social · 23h

We’re about halfway through the amount we need to raise to cover the evicted LGBT community members’ temporary lodging for the next 5 days. $320 left to raise. Thanks for your help and for continuing to spread the word!

Br. Christian Matson @theatremonk.bsky.social · 1d

I’m in touch with this group I’ve been mentoring, and was sent footage this morning of today’s raid. They’re not being allowed back to the house they purchased last month. $650 will cover all 12 people for 5 days in the temporary rooms they’ve found. I’m sending GoFundMe donations directly to them.

Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨This Ugandan LGBT group have been raided and urgently need to relocate. You can help by donating to their GoFundMe - it's for a recently completed project, but includes an update about the situation. DM @theatremonk.bsky.social for further verification. www.gofundme.com/f/purchase-h...

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Br. Christian Matson @theatremonk.bsky.social · 1d

I’m in touch with this group I’ve been mentoring, and was sent footage this morning of today’s raid. They’re not being allowed back to the house they purchased last month. $650 will cover all 12 people for 5 days in the temporary rooms they’ve found. I’m sending GoFundMe donations directly to them.

Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨This Ugandan LGBT group have been raided and urgently need to relocate. You can help by donating to their GoFundMe - it's for a recently completed project, but includes an update about the situation. DM @theatremonk.bsky.social for further verification. www.gofundme.com/f/purchase-h...

Donate to Purchase House of Grace as a Center for LGBT People in Jinja, organized by Cole Matson

In Jinja and across Uganda, LGBTQ+ individuals face growing i… Cole Matson needs your support for Purchase House of Grace as a Center for LGBT People in Jinja

www.gofundme.com

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨This Ugandan LGBT group have been raided and urgently need to relocate. You can help by donating to their GoFundMe - it's for a recently completed project, but includes an update about the situation. DM @theatremonk.bsky.social for further verification. www.gofundme.com/f/purchase-h...

Donate to Purchase House of Grace as a Center for LGBT People in Jinja, organized by Cole Matson

In Jinja and across Uganda, LGBTQ+ individuals face growing i… Cole Matson needs your support for Purchase House of Grace as a Center for LGBT People in Jinja

www.gofundme.com

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 1d

She's just so playful and fun! I want to make my own fake dictionary and stuff

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 1d

My most cancellable feature is that, despite everything, I still fucking love reading Mary Daly

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 2d

"No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ."

Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 2d

News article about the event
www.americamagazine.org/dispatches/2...

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 2d

News article about the event
www.americamagazine.org/dispatches/2...

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 2d

I think he actually cites her!

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 2d

If you want to read the book, you can get secondhand copies for a reasonable amount. It can also be found for free on archive.org (while it lasts) archive.org/details/tort...

Torture and Eucharist : theology, politics, and the body of Christ : Cavanaugh, William T., 1962- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

xi, 286 pages ; 24 cm

archive.org

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 2d

The Eucharist is Christ's victory over sin, and its communion is a foretaste of this victory. It brings into the present God's eventual overcoming of evil, and reminds us that the Kingdom will come when every barbed wire fence is ripped down and every torturer thrown from the seat of their power.

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 2d

While they may neither physically reach the victims, nor free them, they nevertheless witness to the limits of government power, the capacity of the people to defy it, and the divine judgment that stands over it.

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 2d

Cavanaugh's insight is that the protestors are victorious even though they do not get past the gates. It is the very act of their trying that asserts a counter logic to the cruelties they oppose.

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 2d

It's horrifying to see this directly repeated in the US today. Here you have a congregation standing outside a contemporary torture site, trying to extend their communion to those inside by taking them the sacrament. They are turned away by govt agents who want to keep their victims isolated.

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 2d

He finds this logic at the heart of activism against the Pinochet government and their use of torture. Congregations would stand before the gates of Pinochet's torture sight at Villa Grimaldi and perform liturgies. In doing so they would assert the presence of this communion and its counter logic.

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 2d

Cavanaugh's book argues that the Eucharist provides a counter-logic to torture, inscribing people in a communion that holds within the uncertainty of disappearance, passes through the walls of government compounds, persists amidst fear, and refuses to deny the presence of the victim.

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 2d

The effect then goes beyond the isolation of prisoners, atomising society by breaking up families and communities, and making people afraid to band together in resistance.

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 2d

Cavanaugh talks about how torture isolates its victims. You are disappeared suddenly by secret police, interred in a hidden location, or one that the govt denies is a place of torture, then pain takes away your capacity for language and selfhood as it leaves you screaming.

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 2d

Time to dig out William Cavanaugh's 'Torture and the Eucharist' again (thread)
www.instagram.com/reel/DPuL_Q8...

jamesmartinsj on Instagram

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 6d

Flavour text: "You are a poor researcher and I recommend your paper be rejected"