Mixtape Methodology and the R.E.S.T. Mixtape: A Freedom-Centered Framework for Outcast Christianity

In the face of imposed binaries and rigid epistemologies that fail to account for the lived realities of marginalized communities, Mixtape Methodology emerges as a liberative hermeneutic. This framework treats cultural creativity—hip-hop, film, music, and Black cultural production—as sacred text, offering a remixable, intertextual approach to theological reflection. Rooted in Outcast Christianity, Mixtape Methodology foregrounds enby epistemology, the hush harbor tradition, and hip-hop’s remix culture as tools for meaning-making in a world that demands new paradigms.

At the same time, the R.E.S.T. Mixtape builds on the legacy of hush harbors—spaces that existed both within and beyond institutional structures—as models for freedom-centered frameworks. These fugitive spaces allowed for the flourishing of an Outcast Christianity, a form of faith practice tethered to radical ethical spirituality and ethnographic tradition. Outcast Christianity thrives in the margins, rejecting the invulner…