The Gentrified City of God: Queer & Medieval New York from 9/11 to COVID-19

FORTHCOMING Fall 2024

The United States is a spiritual wasteland—a two-party dictatorship that worships money and that eats human beings alive, where racial and gender oppression attack the body, and where partisan polarization stifles the mind. In this dreary context, A.W. Strouse pursues a life of sin and salvation. As a queer scholar of the Middle Ages and[…]

The(y)ology: Mythopoetics for Queer/Trans Liberation

Published: 06/01/2023

Every body contains multitudes, but no body is immune to the ideology of oneness: one true self, one sexuality, one gender, one vision of the world, one true God. For many who identify (or who have been named by others) as transgender, queer, and nonbinary, the refusal to fit within the illusion of one set[…]