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For this colloquium, Dr. Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones will present work and discussion from her new monograph,听Immaculate Misconceptions: A Black Mariology听(Oxford University Press, 2025).听Immaculate Misconceptions听begins with the claim,听Mary is Black,听to ground how Christian-colonial imaginaries of salvation and identity are challenged when we rethink assumptions about race, gender, and divine significance through the lens of the Virgin Mary, and specifically, through a return to the Black Madonna. Staged as a Black feminist and womanist theological conversation, the book offers a layered journey through art, church history, theological inquiry, and Black studies to consider a theology听partus sequitur ventrem鈥攁rising听from听the condition of the Black Mother,听following听the condition of the Black Madonna, and听for听the consideration of all those who pursue justice and life at the spiritual intersections of the world. The book questions the 鈥榣egislative doctrine鈥� around our perceptions of Mary as the Mother of God, and considers how Christian collusion with colonialism, capitalism, and anti-Blackness have worked theologically to deny Blackness from the realms of the sacred. Through the lens of the art and theology of the icon, the treatise thinks through Black women鈥檚 reproductive legacies theologically, and revisits the figure of the Black Madonna as fugitive, the womb as hush harbor, birth as liturgy, and Black life as holy.