Abstract
At the ripe old age of 15, I found my vocational calling in the title of the Alice Walker essay from which the quote above is taken: “The Unglamorous but Worthwhile Duties of the Black Revolutionary Artist, or of the Black Writer Who Simply Works and Writes.”2 At that time, I had no interest in the definition of the term “womanist,” which appears in the front of In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens. I simply wanted to be black; revolutionary; artist; or writer. And the truth be told, throughout my vocational journey, I have continued to look and listen for the call of vocation (often unconsciously) in ways that are “revolutionary”! In my current teaching context, I have learned from my students that my vocation as a womanist theologian and my embodiment of womanist pedagogy in the classroom is often concerned with what appears to be the “least glamorous stuff,”3 while it remains transformative and revolutionary.KeywordsAfrican American CommunityBlack GirlhoodBlack ChurchBlack Panther PartyRadical CreativityThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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