Tehom Center

Dr. Angela Yarber. Award-Winning Author. Feminist. Publisher. Q***r. Learn more at www.tehomcenter.org

Tehom Center is a press publishing feminist and q***r authors, elevating BIPOC writers, and offering author coaching, while also nurturing a vibrant and inclusive q***r ministry. Tehom Centers empowers marginalized women by teaching about revolutionary women through art, writing, retreats, and courses on Hawai'i Island.

06/13/2026

Every word is an act of defiance.

For decades, our stories were erased, our histories burned, our voices silenced. But we kept writing - in journals hidden under floorboards, in love letters passed in secret, in manifestos that sparked revolutions.

Writing our truths is how we claim space in a world that told us we didn't exist. It's how we tell the next generation: You are not alone.It's how we transform pain into power, silence into song.

This Pride, write your story. Share your truth. Exist loudly.Because every q***r narrative is resistance.

Every memoir, every poem, every post is a refusal to be forgotten.We are here. We have always been here. And our words will outlast the hate.

06/12/2026

Would ya look at that?!

A clergy collar no matter what the DOD says. Or Southern Baptist Convention.

With matchy matchy Pride earrings, hella big
glasses, and a READ Q***R BIPOC WOMEN t-shirt as added pizzazz ✨

Cause that’s how we roll in Tehom Center’s Ministry from the Margins Books. And registration for our final summer cohort is now open to a limited and intimate group of 10 📚

So, if your religious denomination was dropped by the DOD and you’re q***r, BIPOC, disabled, and/or a woman spiritual leader who yearns to write a book and raise a middle finger, we’re probably the cohort for you ✊🏽

As one past participant put it, “In any other space, we’d be tokens. Here, we’re community.”

Join us in a beloved writing community ❤️

This is the LAST time we’re offering a summer cohort before transitioning from 4 annual cohorts to 2 ☀️

Learn more and secure your spot before it fills at: https://mailchi.mp/.../ministry-from-the-margins-books-2024

06/11/2026

Pride Spotlight:
Skating Out of the Vault: A Trans Woman's Escape from the Game of Masculinity
by Brianne Brinker,

As an athletic five-year-old daydreaming under the bed, Brianne Brinker thought she was maybe a girl. But that truth was locked deep inside a vault as she grew up navigating the hyper-masculine world of Division I men's hockey-as a player, coach, husband, father, and college athletic administrator.

Skating Out of the Vault is her powerful memoir of identity, resilience, and late-in-life transition. With raw honesty and hard-won grace, Brianne reveals how she broke free from the game of masculinity-and what it really means to win.

Order here:

https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=XftLEU1tSEGdVu5CprUzsWv3KLrhUMgKRl7BRG0BKQs

06/10/2026

We love to see Tehom Center Publishing books in the wild!

Visiting Bellingham? Stop by Village Books in Fairhaven and pick up your copy of Fill the Room by Joyce Parry-Moore from their psychology section!

06/08/2026

The work of Ministry from the Margins Books has been among the most meaningful work of my life. Witnessing marginalized spiritual leaders transform their wisdom, scholarship, and lived experiences into books that change lives continues to be an incredible privilege.

And yet, if I'm being honest, offering four cohorts every year—nine cohorts in the past 2.5 years serving over 100 writers—is so exhausting that it’s no longer sustainable.

Meaningful work can still be exhausting work.
And sustainable movements require sustainable leaders.

So after this summer, Tehom Center Publishing will move from offering four annual Ministry from the Margins Books cohorts to two: one each fall and one in the late spring.

This shift will allow us to continue to serve as many writers, but more intentionally, creating the spaciousness necessary for this work to thrive for years to come.

In many ways, this feels like practicing exactly what these three books teach us.

Finding joy in the work.
Acknowledging grief when change is necessary.
Holding ourselves accountable to the realities of our own capacity.

Because of this transition, this summer's Ministry from the Margins Books cohort will be the LAST summer cohort we offer.

In other words, the summer cohort is a once-in-a-blue-moon opportunity.

Registration closes July 6, and space is limited because we're intentionally limiting the cohort to only ten participants to create an intimate, supportive environment for writers who are ready to devote their summer to bringing a book into the world. If you've been carrying a book inside you, perhaps this is your season.

Perhaps this is your invitation.

And if not, we'll be here again in fall—still building movements, still elevating voices from the margins, and still believing that stories can change the world.

I'm grateful for the wisdom these three authors have offered and for the reminder that sustainable revolution isn't built by doing more and more.
It's built by discerning what matters most and giving it our fullest attention.

May we have the courage to do the same.

Deeply,
Dr. Ang

06/07/2026

What if the greatest threat to justice isn't the people fighting against it, but the good people who looked away?

This question is at the heart of Tehom Center’s May release, The Absence of Light: Radical Accountability and a Way Forward.

Author Christie Hardwick had the career, the causes, the spiritual practices, and the best of intentions. She wrote checks to nonprofits, voted in every election, and believed love would prevail. But when the cracks in democracy widened, she was forced to confront an uncomfortable truth: good intentions are not the same as action.

The Absence of Light is a raw, unflinching self-inventory, a confession from a Black woman, ordained minister, former tech executive, and leadership coach who examines how privilege, comfort, and spiritual bypassing kept her from showing up when it mattered most.

This is not a book about shame. It is a blueprint for what comes next: how comfort zones and echo chambers quietly erode civic engagement, why "checkbook activism" soothes our conscience but fails our communities, how spiritual practices can shield us from the very pain meant to wake us up, a practical framework for radical accountability without self-destruction, and the path from remorse through self-forgiveness to renewed, meaningful engagement.

For anyone who has ever wondered: Am I doing enough? Did my silence contribute to this? And what do I do now?

Beloveds, can you think of anything we need more now than ever?!

06/06/2026

In the Napa area? You are invited to an evening with TCP author of Q***r Joy, Bethany Meier-Evans!

This "paint and sip" style experience will be a super fun celebration of q***r joy with a few readings from Bethany's book and an interactive workshop where participants create their own Mosaics of Q***r Joy together (while sipping a delicious beverage!)

06/04/2026

It’s officially Pride season! This seems like the perfect time to remind you to support your favorite drag artist (that’s Miss Terra Cotta Sugarbaker! 😉) and buy some merch or a copy of her book!

Links are in her bio here: ! The book and a tee make a great gift for your favorite alphabet friend, or you can buy it as reparations for homophobic past deeds! 🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️📚

06/03/2026

Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈

I’m q***r all year!

And today I’m relishing the memory of kicking off my Pride Book Tour and launching this book into the world 2 years ago today.

Forbes called it “a thoughtful examination of privilege, otherness, and the notion of the American Dream.” Sounds pretty apropos in our country right now, doesn’t it?
Since its release I’ve been dedicated to championing the books of other q***r writers at Tehom Center and I find myself returning to my publication with renewed hope and dreams as a screenplay adaptation is in the hands of a Hollywood producer while I cross my fingers and wish and hope and manifest that this revolutionary project finds the backing to become a reality!

Because the world needs more q***r stories that subvert the American dream!
If you haven’t read it yet, snag your copy at https://tinyurl.com/kkv5kvk9

06/02/2026

Congratulations to Hillary Kimsey on her book launch today! TCP is so excited to invite you to read The Well is DEEP.

What happens when the helpers need help?

Critical care chaplain Hillary Kimsey was working in a downtown Seattle hospital when the first U.S. COVID-19 case appeared just miles away. For the next four years, she walked into rooms where families said goodbye over iPads, where nurses held back tears between codes, and where patients died without anyone who loved them by their side. By December 2020, she was diagnosed with PTSD.

The Well is Deep is a frontline memoir structured around the imagery of baptism-sinking, submersion, and surfacing. With unflinching honesty and unexpected humor, Kimsey tells the truth about what it cost to be the person in the room when no one else could be there.

Walk the hospital halls with her through:

The eerie silence of empty ferries crossing the Puget Sound in the earliest days of lockdown
An ordination as an Episcopal priest in a nearly empty cathedral, wearing hiking sandals under her vestments
The Delta wave and the hardest day of her career
The moment her therapist said, "You can't self-care your way out of constant trauma"
Anti-vaccine protests outside the hospital while patients died inside
The slow, sacred work of surfacing-leaving the hospital, finding a parish, and learning to live with what she carries

Each chapter ends with reflection questions for personal journaling or group discussion, making this not just a memoir but a tool for processing your own pandemic grief.

For anyone who has carried the weight of caring for others. For anyone who lost someone to COVID and hasn't fully grieved. For anyone who suspects the pandemic changed them in ways they haven't yet named. This book says: you are not alone, and your well is deeper than you know.

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