By Dr. Herukhuti UPDATE: Dr. Herukhuti will be guest editing a special issue of the Journal of Bisexuality on the life and work of Shaykh Dr. Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajajé. For more information, please visit the journal’s website here. To those who wondered why we’ve been silent the last several weeks, this will shed some light onContinueContinue reading “In Memoriam for a Dear Mentor and Friend: Shaykh Dr. Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajajé”
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What’s Happening at CCSS – Winter 2016
2015 Recap Last year was an incredibly productive period for the Center for Culture, Sexuality and Spirituality (CCSS). Our webjournal reached tens of thousands of people in 113 countries, territories, and nations around the world with articles by activists, thought leaders, artists and healers such as Andrea Jenkins (poet, oral historian, and trans activist) andContinueContinue reading “What’s Happening at CCSS – Winter 2016”
Collard Greens, Christianity and Colonization
By Dr. Herukhuti Millions of Black folks will be eating black-eyed peas and collard greens over the next 24 hours as a part of the new year African tradition in the Americas. We do this to maintain our connection with our ancestors and elders, heritage and as a ritual of positive attraction i.e., drawing forthContinueContinue reading “Collard Greens, Christianity and Colonization”
Christianity Is Un-African, Homosexuality Isn’t
Erotic Sun Group Caribbean Cruise – Oct 25 – Nov 1 NYC to The Bahamas
CENTER FOR CULTURE, SEXUALITY AND SPIRITUALITY presents EROTIC SUN GROUP CARIBBEAN CRUISE – NYC TO THE BAHAMAS ON THE NORWEGIAN CRUISE LINE’S BREAKAWAY OCTOBER 25 – NOVEMBER 1, 2015 The Erotic is “the open and fearless underlining of my capacity for joy; those physical, emotional, and psychic expressions of what is deepest and strongest andContinueContinue reading “Erotic Sun Group Caribbean Cruise – Oct 25 – Nov 1 NYC to The Bahamas”
Lotus in the Mud: Blackness, Decolonizing Yoga and Tai Chi and My Teaching Practice
By Dr. Herukhuti I started learning yoga, pranayama, tai chi chuan and chi kung when I was 14. Our school, the Temple of the White and Gold Lotus, Shrine of Amen-Ra, was housed in the parlor floor of a pre-gentrification, Bedford-Stuyvesant brownstone that our teacher had reclaimed from abandonment by squatting in it with his family. The tightly-woven,ContinueContinue reading “Lotus in the Mud: Blackness, Decolonizing Yoga and Tai Chi and My Teaching Practice”
Why I Stopped Teaching Yoga – My journey into spiritual, political accountability
Another reason for the existence of http://sacredsexualities.org/sspoc-network/
New Study: Religious Counseling Underserves Suicidal Black Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals
by Dr. Herukhuti Black people don’t do therapy. It’s an often held belief rooted in reality. For many reasons, people of African descent consume mental health services from psychologists, psychiatrists and other psychotherapists at lower rates than white folks i.e., people of European descent. Because we disproportionately experience greater levels of economic violence and inequality, weContinueContinue reading “New Study: Religious Counseling Underserves Suicidal Black Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals”
The United States of Hoodoo: A Documentary (full film)
National Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS
Our Embodied Selves: Where We Meet by Dr. Herukhuti in BlaqOutDallas.com March 2013 In 1994, I returned to New York City after four years at the University of Southern California. While finishing up a few last minute independent study courses, I needed an income. My girlfriend had a side gig as a nutritionist at aContinueContinue reading “National Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS”