Unlearning the Gendered, Racist Oppression of Purity Culture | Resource List

Essays & Articles
4 Reasons Why Black Women Should Reject Purity Culture, Crunk Feminist Collective, 2016
Sunday Kind of Love: Sex and Spirituality in the Black Church, Tamara Winfrey Harris, Bitch Media 2018
Purity Culture’s Racism Robs Women of Color of Their Reproductive Agency, Dianna Anderson, Rewire.News, 2015
#BlackSkinWhiteSin: Sexual Autonomy Ain’t Schizophrenia: Deconstructing Bynum’s Ableist Rhetoric in “No More Sheets Pt. 2, Jade T. Perry, The Feminist Wire, 2017
#BlackSkinWhiteSin Article series by The Feminist Wire, curated by Dr. Tamura Lomax
A PRAYER FOR YOU WHEN SILLY RELIGIOUS DOGMAS ARE TRYING TO KILL YOUR AROUSAL, Ev’yan Whitney, 2014
proheauxism: a working definition* [dome version] | a sex positive manifesta for black /brown women & femmes, suprihmbé (Supreme Bae), 2016
ON BLACK CHURCH(ED) WOMEN EMBRACING THE EROTIC, Jade T. Perry, Sexkiki.net 2019
Queer Black Folks Talk about Masturbation, Confront Shame, & Affirm Their Right to Self Pleasure, Sherronda Brown, BlackYouthProject.com, 2019

Books
Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture, Tamura Lomax, 2018
Passionate and Pious: Religious Media and Black Women's Sexuality, Monique Moultrie, 2017
The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America, Tamara Winfrey Harris, 2015
Eroticism, Spirituality, and Resistance in Black Women’s Writings, Donna Aza Weir-Soley, 2017

Sexuality & the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective, Kelly Brown Douglas, 1999

Media Movements & Hashtags:
#BlackChurchSex, created by Ahmad Greene Hayes
No Shame Movement, created by @seelolago

Artistic Projects & Experiences
Embodied Rituals Project | Description | 18+ Content
Reclaiming Your Sexy 101 & The Messy Movement Lab Experience by Rashida KhanBey Miller
Sex Kiki | Sex-positive multimedia sanctuary activating erotic arts, culture, and education