by Starlette Thomas | Jun 15, 2026 | Opinion, Opinion|The Raceless Gospel Initiative
“Martin, don’t let anybody ever tell you you’re not a Somebody.” It’s Martin Luther King Jr.’s foundational childhood story. His grandmother instilled a core belief in his own worth, which remains a critical teaching in the African American community....
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 8, 2026 | Opinion
White-body supremacy demands silence. Not to be confused with a genuine fear of saying the wrong thing, a lack of knowledge or the desire to avoid social conflict, this silence extracts, consolidates and directs all conceivable benefits towards whiteness. This...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 1, 2026 | Opinion
The politics of white-body supremacy make existence insufferable for marginalized people groups racialized as black and brown. That’s the point. Systems of white-body supremacy create an untenable environment by deeply embedding trauma into our physiological,...
by Starlette Thomas | May 25, 2026 | Opinion
If we’ve ever needed the writings of Toni Morrison, it is now. With political turbulence that threatens to bring down the right and left wings of American democracy, its citizens can only prepare for the crash, the fallout of this young empire. True to its capitalist...
by Starlette Thomas | May 18, 2026 | Opinion
I am not afraid of a labor-replacing future. Instead, I repeat the anti-capitalist refrain: “I have no dream job; I do not dream of labor.” I dream of creating art in all its forms—not to be consumed but relished. I dream of moving slowly and not in blocks of time...
