Nicole Symmonds is the visiting assistant professor of Christian ethics at the McAfee School of Theology and a Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research interests include Christian anti-trafficking work, womanist responses to commercial sex work, sexual ethics in popular culture and society, and Christian social ethics and ethnography. Her current research explores the role of Evangelical Christian whiteness in anti-trafficking work. She received her Ph.D. from Emory University’s Graduate Division of Religion, an M. Div from the Candler School of Theology, and a B.S. in journalism from Florida A&M University.
Psalms for Black Lives focuses on how its Black readers can speak a new world into being — and gives them a soft place to land as that world forms. This soft place is essential for Black people who often feel nothing but the world's harshness.
Rihanna's pregnancy is a celebration of life that encourages us to consider how to celebrate Black pregnant joy as Catholics and fight for the representation of Black pregnant women in our society, especially within our churches.
Tweeting through Lent has meant holding space for people and taking their words seriously. It has helped me make sense of how flesh uses words to make sense of its place in the world.
