The “Disinherited” podcast was dreamed of, talked about and blueprinted before we even knew what it was or could be. And in many ways it is still very much a dream, a possibility, a glimmer of light into what it means to be Black and Brown Catholics grounded in radical action in 2021.
We were both raised in the Catholic Church, and for years, we have been tired of the many failures of the institutional church, especially in its rejection of movements and struggles that center Black liberation. Amid this disillusionment, we had a lot of offline conversations. We talked about how we, like so many Black, Brown, Asian, Indigenous, marginalized Catholics, could grow so detached from the church that shaped us. We talked about the moments that radicalized us.
These moments, especially the last year, have challenged us to ask ourselves: What does it mean to live as radical followers of Jesus in this exact moment in time?
We are now taking these offline conversations and our own commitment to being in solidarity with the most oppressed in our world and church and publishing them as the “Disinherited” podcast.
