The Optative Mood

@theoptativemood.bsky.social

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Recovering social scientist, aspiring theologian. Lover of queer, postcolonial, liberation, process theologies. Birding newbie. What if I told you I was America's Sweetheart?

Beautiful ginger tabby yawns during Dr. William Barber's sermon at Middle Church in 2017 on the laptop.
Small tuxedo cat is sitting on the lower shelf of a tall bookshelf, looking up at the many books above her
A ginger tabby flops over a laptop showing a PDF of Gerald Horne's 2015 book, "Confronting Black Jacobins". The laptop is propped up against a red and orange pillow on a bed with a pink, yellow, and white bedspread.
Ginger tabby rolls herself on the back side of the book "Sexualness", by Akshay Khanna, which is on a laptop on top of a pink bedspread
Ginger tabby cat rolls herself on a copy of Sexualness, by Akshay Khanna, on a pink bedspread, next to a laptop
Two classics by Ambedkar, Federation Versus Freedom, and Castes in India, on a pink and red pillow on a bed
A small tuxedo cat stands atop a pile of books on a bed with a red, blue, and white bedspread. The books are: Christ & Empire, Making a Way Out of No Way, Other Dreams of Freedom, Circuits of the Sacred, Postcolonial Theologies, and my personal favorite, To Be Cared For: The Power of Conversion and Foreignness in an Indian Slum.
Ginger tabby cat plops herself on a copy of Erik Davis' "High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies". Both book and cat are on a red and blue bedspread with pillows behind.