Christena Cleveland

Sep 12, 2023 | reckon.news | Anna Beahm |Christena Cleveland

Sign up for Reckon’s latest weekly newsletter covering the three topics never to be discussed at the dinner table. Enter your email to subscribe to Matter of Faith. From snappy podcast interviews to TikTok gardening videos, content creator and public theologian Ciarra Jones is spreading the gospel of authentic, radically accepting theology in the places where people need hope-filled spirituality the most.

Mar 21, 2023 | audible.com | Clarkisha Kent |Jonathan Metzl |Sesali Bowen |Christena Cleveland

In this disarming and candid memoir, cultural critic Clarkisha Kent unpacks the kind of compounded problems you face when you’re a fat, Black, queer woman in a society obsessed with heteronormativity. There was no easy way for Kent to navigate personal discovery and self-love. As a dark-skinned, first-generation American facing a myriad of mental health issues and intergenerational trauma, at times Kent’s body felt like a cosmic punishment.