What  is  internalized  homophobia?  How  might  it  manifest  as a part of one’s spiritual or religious experience?

Can  you  imagine  a  spiritual  or  religious  space  that  would  be  safe  for  queer individuals? What would it look it? 
What might a safe spiritual or religious space look like in therapy?

when individuals see no alternatives.

Creative alternative ways to live, be, and act will come into being only when there is mass education for critical consciousness—an awakening to the awareness that collectively black male survival requires that they learn to challenge patriarchal notions of manhood, that they 

claim nonviolence as the only progressive stance to take in a world where all life is threatened by patriarchal imperialist war."

—bell hooks, 

We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity

-E. Patrick Johnson, “Black Performance Studies: Genealogies, Politics, Futures”

1.Discard Linear Structure 

There is no beginning, middle and end. Time is experienced cyclically. 

Music, rhythm and movement are 

important aspects in Black Ritual. 

Repetition is an ancient method to aid in total spiritual involvement. 

Unlike traditional European performances, the fourth wall is blurred and the audience is expected to engage. 

Used to build participation and repetition.
 

There is no hierarchy once ritual has begun. 

Black Ritual Theatre is never about one person.

8. Achieve Transformation 

The ritual should transform its participants. 

This text was written by and belongs to Lindsay A. Jenkins