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Stranded — Karmen Michael Smith
Stranded 2025
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STRANDED

Why Modern Dating Is Rigged And How to Beat the Game

Modern dating isn't broken. It's working exactly as designed — to keep you searching, circling, and never quite arriving. The apps, the algorithms, the advice — all of it is built to sustain the search, not end it.

Stranded names what you've been feeling and gives you the framework to finally move. This is not a self-help book. It's a diagnosis — and a direction.

"You are not the problem. The system is. And once you see it, you can't unsee it."

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Holy Queer — Karmen Michael Smith
02

2023

Holy Queer

The Coming Out of Christ

What does it mean for God to be queer? Not as provocation — as theological precision. Holy Queer is a prophetic examination of divine queerness, the politics of the Black church, and what full inclusion actually demands of a community that claims to love all people.

Drawing on the words of bell hooks — "queer not as in who you are sleeping with, but queer as in at odds with everything around you" — Karmen makes the case that Jesus himself was the original outsider. And that the church has spent centuries trying to domesticate what was never meant to be tamed.

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The 4 Laws of Disruption — Karmen Michael Smith
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2025

The 4 Laws
of Disruption

For Everyone Navigating a Reset They Didn't Ask For

Written before the great disruption of 2025 — and more necessary because of it. The 4 Laws of Disruption is for people who are fed up. And fed-up is when your spirit stages a protest.

This book is for people who are experiencing a reset. The life you've known is gone. You are navigating disruption — not as a concept, but as a lived reality. Karmen gives you the four laws that govern what happens next and how to move through it with intention, not just survival.

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