Rediscovering God
Katie Pruitt’s debut album, Expectations, explored growing up gay and Catholic in the American South. On her new podcast series, The Recovering Catholic, she speaks with comedians, religious leaders, and other artists about how they see God and what spirituality means today. Osiris Media.
Living with Dignity
Travis Lupick’s Light Up the Night: America’s Overdose Crisis and the Drug Users Fighting for Survival centers activists organizing to decrease overdose deaths through harm reduction strategies. As users, they understand that to improve health outcomes, they must challenge policies that criminalize them. The New Press.
Resisting Inheritance
In Undoing the Knots: Five Generations of American Catholic Anti-Blackness, Maureen O’Connell uses her family history to illuminate how American Irish Catholics and others chose whiteness over racial justice. She looks at how to dismantle white Catholic identity and the social structures it created. Beacon Press.
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