The 2025 EdWARD BAIlEY KeynotE: Dr. Monique Moultrie

Rooted Resistance: Lessons from Black Women’s Sextifying, Authority, and Advocacy
‍The 2025 Bailey Keynote lecture explores the religious and spiritual motivations of Black female religious leaders and activists. Through amplifying and theorizing Black women’s sexual stories/lives, I will interrogate moral lessons gleaned from their testimony, authority, and advocacy. The talk will also investigate my chosen womanist ethnographic methodology as a lens for highlighting the benefits of studying living texts providing both the pitfalls and benefits of using autoethnography, oral history, and digital humanities as guiding methods in my career.

ABOUT Monique Moultrie

Monique Moultrie's scholarly interests include sexual ethics, African American religions, and gender and sexuality studies. Her published books include Passionate and Pious: Religious Media and Black Women’s Sexuality and Hidden Histories: Faith and Black Lesbian Leadership. She is the co-principal investigator for “The Garden Initiative for Black Women's Religious Activism"”

https://moniquemoultrie.com/