#paulimurray — Public Fediverse posts

The #FederalGrant awarded to the #PauliMurrayCenter in 2024 has been cancelled. Would someone explain to me how commemorating someone whose innovative legal arguments are the bedrock of all #CivilRights cases/laws in the 20th Century, & the first #AfricanAmerican #Black #multiracial #female #AFAB #priest of the #EpiscopalChurch who was added to our list of saints in 2018, is not anti-Christian or un-American? https://episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/04/24/pauli-murray-center-says-federal-grant-authorized-in-2024-has-been-withdrawn/

#PauliMurray

Asking all #Episcopalians to contact their Senators, Congresspersons, other elected officials, members of the administration, media & anyone/everyone else about the removal of Pauli Murray, the #Episcopal Church’s first AFAB #lesbian African American priest from the National Park Service website https://episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/03/10/pauli-murray-center-denounces-removal-of-the-priests-biography-from-national-park-service-website/ #PauliMurray #TEC #TheEpiscopalChurch #NationalParkService #women #BIPOC

My daily spiritual practices ebb & flow inconsistently. Lately, they’ve ebbed more than flowed as I’ve been caught up the the “news” and anger at the actions of 🍊 & SpaceBaby. In #Lent I am trying to stop that & and turn away from the anger. In addition to the #ForwardDaybyDay I have taken praying the hours back up using #DailyPrayerforAllSeasons & I am reading #TheDisciplesWay with my sisters. My hope is that diving into the deep end of my faith pool (I’m also doing #EfM & a course on #PauliMurray while reading #NadiabolzWeber ) will help me discern the path God has set me on. I’m not sure what that path is. I certainly don’t know where it leads. What I do know is that I need to be receptive to it. It would be nice if I could recognize it when I see it too. That, however, requires clearer sight & far less anger than I have right now. So I’m diving into study, not as a solution, but as a means of changing my focus & growing my awareness of God in my life & the world.

#LettersAndPolitics' Mitch Jeserich explores the history of #BirthrightCitizenship, from the #ColoredConventionsMovement to the #14thAmendment, and interviews Pedro Rios, director of the AFSC's US-Mexico Border Program about #Trump's #ExecutiveOrders on #immigration

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-january-21-2025/
#USpol #USpolitics #ImmigrantRights #UShistory #BlackHistory #PauliMurray #BrownVsBoardOfEd #LatinoHistory #xenophobia #RacializedCommunities #AntiMigrantRacism #MassDeportations

Ever since I learned about Pauli Murray, from a history PhD student friend of mine (who wanted to be more than a friend, but that's another story), about 10 years ago, I make it a point to post about them during #BlackHistoryMonth.

Yeah, Pauli used she/her pronouns when she was alive, but they also wrote about their acute sense of gender dysphoria, talked about feeling like a man in a woman's body, and even sought (without success) a doctor who would prescribe testosterone to them.

So, yeah, one of Dr. Martin Luthor King's big influences was a member of the LGBTQIA+ community. Pauli Murray also co-founded NOW, and was the first female person to become an Episcopalian minister. They had relationships with men and women, but their relationships with women, particularly "bisexual" women--by which they meant women who were attracted to both their femininity and their masculinity--were the most stable and fruitful for them. They lived an extraordinary life.

And, finally, their queerness is beginning to be recognized by mainstream historical organizations, such as the National Museum of African American History and Culture, from whence this brief article.

#PauliMurray #history #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth2024

https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/pauli-murray-lgbtq-historical-figure