Queerly There

  Dispatches from a radical genderqueer, body positive, neurodiverse minister in a rural American town   

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Moral Imagination and Evil, or How to Honor Victims of Injustice by Working for Reconciliation with their Oppressors

Moral Imagination and Evil, or How to Honor Victims of Injustice by Working for Reconciliation with their Oppressors

I’ve been reading my colleague Nate Walker’s new book, Cultivating Empathy, all about using the moral imagination to open the path to greater compassion, empathy, and connection with those we disagree with. The moral imagination, for those who don’t know, is the idea that we can use our imagination to perceive what is true or not. Essentially, it is a different take on the old cliche to, “Always…

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Embracing Dichotomy: Police Violence and Violence Against Police

Embracing Dichotomy: Police Violence and Violence Against Police

I have a complicated relationship with the police. Coming of age in the Louisville gay scene in the early 2000’s, it was hard not to. Police harassment of the gay community is something that’s always been around. Hell, the Stonewall Rebellion, usually credited as the event that launched the gay liberation movement, was an uprising against police harassment in New York in 1969. My own experiences…

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On a City Person Moving to the Country

On a City Person Moving to the Country

    What’s it like to be a radical queer in America’s rural Midwest? When I moved to the rural Upper Peninsula eight months ago, I didn’t quite understand how isolating of an experience it could be. The media portrays rural life as the ideal to shoot for, where your neighbors are your friends, life is slow and quiet, and crime is down. The city, on the other hand, is supposed to be dangerous,…

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