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Kerry Spencer Pray
Autore di I Spoke to You with Silence: Essays from Queer Mormons of Marginalized Genders
Opere di Kerry Spencer Pray
I Spoke to You with Silence: Essays from Queer Mormons of Marginalized Genders (2022) — A cura di — 12 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- female
- Luogo di residenza
- Owings Mills, Maryland, USA
- Attività lavorative
- writing instructor
- Organizzazioni
- Stevenson University
Brigham Young University
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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- Opere
- 2
- Utenti
- 13
- Popolarità
- #774,335
- Voto
- 5.0
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 3
Well, hells. Or perhaps, heavens??
When I picked up this book, I approached it from the stance of queer elder and sometimes scholar, advocate and academic. I've worked in the world of queer identity and advocacy long before I claimed the identity for myself. As a collection published by an academic press and on a population so different from my own lived experience, I expected my curiosity and desire to understand all that exists at the intersections to lead me into these narratives of queer Mormom experiences.
I must admit to how unprepared I was for what I found, both in the text and in myself.
This book came to me at the same time I found myself stepping away from a life on the road and stepping into queer communal living. It came to me as I was starting replacement hormone therapy and all the weird self-shifts that come to it. Which is to say, it has arrived just as I'm in a place to really reflect on my own gender and queer journey.
One of the really stunning threads throughout this book is the way the editors and the authors hold the tensions that come when acknowledging one core part of your indentity is likely to result in the loss of community, family, geography, and core narrative. To be Mormon and queer is to be divided in yourself, and the high costs of navigating that resonate throughout the collection. In an age where queer authenticity and "outness" are celebrated and encouraged, where despite setbacks we are in one of the most open and safer times in modern history to be queer, this collection invites reflection on *not* speaking out, or speaking, and on the decades long journey for some of reconciling hope and salvation with your human peers deciding you are wrong.
It is a hard read at times, with stories that do not shy away from the worst of the costs, including suicide and loss of community. It is also incredibly hopeful, in the small acts of living and loving that these courageous authors tell.
Let them speak to you. We all have something we can learn.… (altro)