Whitney A. Bauman

Authenticity and Imagination in the Face of Oppression

History & Biography

“Drawing from her embodied, experienced memories growing up black and male, and eventually as a transgendered black female in a hetero-normative, white supremacist society, the Reverend Monica Cross invites us into a story of healing, liberation, and embracing differences so we all might learn to de-colonize our bodies from the straight jackets of hetero-normativity, racism, sexism, and CIS-genderism. This is a book about the multitudes each of us contains beyond dictated societal norms, if we only would allow ourselves to be something different.”

Edible Entanglements

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“The political, religious, and philosophical thinking surrounding issues of food production and distribution are of the highest importance in the face of continued neo-liberal globalization and the return of nationalisms. Anyone concerned about food justice should read this book. S. Yael Dennis interrogates the theological and philosophical understandings of ‘sovereignty’ and ‘anthropology,’ and human-earth relations, bringing nutritional science into the discussion as well, in order to interrogate the violence of the contemporary corporate food regimes and lift up the more egalitarian food regime of the food sovereignty movements, which recognize that we are all dependent upon (and thus vulnerable to) the rest of the planetary community which sustains our lives on a daily basis.”

Exploring Earthiness

Theology

“Anne Primavesi has written an important, thoughtful, and timely book. . . . Our context as thinking creatures does not give us justification for thinking ourselves apart from the planet, but rather [it] urges us to think about how our thoughts emerge from the planetary community and return to affect that community. Primavesi helps us think about our 'earthiness' as bodies among other bodies on an evolving, living planet.”

Meeting the Enemy

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Kevin O'Brien has laid out a systematic case for blessed rage toward the fossil fuel industry. The intersectional forces of domination that have led to colonialism, racism, sexism, heterosexism, and ableism, and that reinforce anthropocentrism, are today exacerbated by fossil-fueled atmospheric defilement. Rather than placing the blame on our daily lives, even though we must recognize our complicity to varying degrees, O'Brien argues we ought to join forces against a strategic enemy, the fossil-fueled industrial complex, which exacerbates injustices on a global scale.”

Preaching Black Earth

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“This text brings together leading academicians, activists, and religious leaders who care about justice for people and the earth and shows how justice for people and justice for the earth are intimately connected. Bringing together the wisdom from environmental justice, earth justice, ecowomanism, and liberation and black theologies among others, the sermons, interviews, and poems in this book help us to look at the intersectional issues involved in eco-injustice faced by peoples, nonhuman life, and the planetary community. Most importantly, the writings in this text not only appeal to our rational selves but also appeal to the deep affective realities that lie in the wake of colonization, slavery, and ecological degradation.”