Fund for Racial Justice Teaching and Programming

October 2016

Atheist blogger, speaker and author, Greta Christina discussed how the sexual morality of traditional religion tends to be based, not on solid ethical principles, but on a set of taboos about what kinds of sex God does and doesn’t want people to have. And while the sex-positive community offers a more thoughtful view of sexual morality, it still often frames sexuality as positive by seeing it as a spiritual experience. What are some atheist alternatives to these views? How can atheists view sexual ethics without a belief in God? And how can atheists view sexual transcendence without a belief in the supernatural?

March 2018

Dr. Maria Cotera is a scholar of Latina/o Studies whose work focuses on women of color feminist genealogies, social movements, digital studies, and public humanities.

September 2018

In 1978, over 900 members of the predominantly African American Peoples Temple church died in the Jonestown Guyana massacre. In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the tragedy, CERCL hosted a screening of Sikivu Hutchinson’s film short, White Nights, Black Paradise, followed by a panel discussion with black women survivors, Leslie Wagner Wilson and Yulanda Williams on the black experience in the Jonestown diaspora.

November 2018

Panel discussion, organized by students in the “Religion and Black Lives Matter” course, with Houston-based Black Lives Matter activists, including students from Rice’s campus, artists, educators, and organizers from around the city. Featured dance performance choreographed by panelist Harrison Guy.