LIT Womanism: An Intergenerational 20 Year Retrospective of Living in the Tenets of Womanism Distilled in Deeper Shades of Purple

This session is designed as a constructive conversation about method, accountability, mentorship, and movement-building, centering intergenerational exchange among senior, mid-career, and emerging scholars to assess the enduring contributions of Deeper Shades of Purple to religious studies, ethics, theology, and social analysis, while also naming its unfinished questions. Together panelists will consider how womanist approaches illuminate contemporary struggles around anti-Black gendered violence, reproductive justice, ecological crisis, diability justice, queer and trans religious life, and global Black feminisms.