Recently I’ve been exploring the website and substack of Black Modern Mystic, where you can find articles, interviews, videos, and conversations. I have been inspired by their “core commitments and rule of life based in discernment, not dogma.“
To quote from Dr. Tamice Spencer-Helms: “Black Modern Mystic is a space where scholarship, social transformation, and spirituality meet through a Black queer liberation lens.
This project is rooted in the belief that knowledge should be both rigorous and livable. Drawing from theology, cultural criticism, Black studies, and spiritual practice, Black Modern Mystic translates academic inquiry into accessible essays, audio-visual conversations, and reflections grounded in radical truth-telling.
At the heart of this work is a concept called Resurrection Technology—the practices, intuitions, communities, and creative forms Black people have used to generate life under impossible conditions. From hush harbors and hip-hop to ritual, friendship, and fugitivity, this project traces how freedom has always been practiced long before it was ever declared.
Black Modern Mystic is also relational. The work grows out of real conversations with thinkers, artists, organizers, and creatives—people I love learning with and who are modern mystics in their own right.“
mystical friend 