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NAOMI
WASHINGTON-LEAPHEART
• A progressive, black lesbian minister from Detroit, Michigan who is affiliated with the
Fellowship of Affirming Ministries and the United Church of Christ.
• Married to her wife, Kentina, a chaplain and religious educator. And together they
have a daughter named Sophia..
• Earned a Master of Divinity from Lancaster Theological Seminary.
• Naomi is the Faith Work Director for the National LGBTQ Task Force
• Professor in the Theology and Religious Studies department at Villanova University.
• Passionate about fighting oppressive systems of racism and homophobia through
preaching truth to power and building an inclusive and affirming Christianity.
FRIERE NAOMI
• Pedagogy- a system of instruction, teaching. • Nontraditional Politics using creativity to fight systems of
oppression.
• Liberation- level of freedom through thought or action and
rejecting certain images and replace with another image. • Traditional Politics rallying marginalized communities to
vote.
• Praxis- action that follows a particular theory and creates
political and economic change. • Sermons that challenge the ideologies of the oppressor.
• Autonomy- defining one’s self independently of outside • “Revolutionary Mothering” parenting praxis through
influences. which we work to end white supremacy, patriarchy,
homophobia, transphobia, and economic exploitation
• Encouraging marginalized communities that they define who
they are and own their power.
WHY NAOMI?
• Influential Black Queer Christian
Activist
• Exposes systematic oppression
• Rebuilder or people
• A message of hope, not fear
Image Source: OldFirst UCC
HOW DOES IT
RELATE TO MY
BLOG?
It brings the intersections of race,
sexuality, and religion together.
• Kentina, & Washington-Leapheart, N. (2018, June 07). What We Cannot Do is Be Revolutionaries Except When We're Mothering. Retrieved from
http://religiondispatches.org/what-we-cannot-do-is-be-revolutionaries-except-when-were-mothering/
• Leapheart, N. (2015). A Strategy In the Struggle. In From Generation to Generation: A Commemorative Collection of African American Millennial Sermons from the Festival
of Preachers 2010-2015 (pp. 278–284). Chalice Press.
• London, E., Siddiqi, M., & Wallis, L. (2019, September 09). 9 LGBTQ Faith Leaders to Watch in 2019. Retrieved from
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/religion/news/2019/09/09/474156/9-lgbtq-faith-leaders-watch-2019/
• Schmit, T. (2019, April 09). LGBT clergy, representing the new face of faith, speak out dangers of systemic spiritual abuse. Retrieved from
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news/lgbt-clergy-representing-the-new-face-of-faith-speak-out/article_4e51792a-5a22-11e9-be32-cbb474fcc359.html
• Staff Bio: Rev Naomi Washington-Leapheart. (2018, April 11). Retrieved from https://www.thetaskforce.org/staff-bio-naomi-washington-leapheart/