This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Making name tags ahahahah

Families left reeling after hospitals in blue states drop transgender care for youth Massachusetts passed laws and joined lawsuits to protect access to gender-affirming care for minors. But faced with the Trump administration's threats, some hospitals voluntarily stopped care.

Right now where you live healthcare for trans kids is either being made literally illegal by your state or made functionally illegal by the unlawful threats of the federal government and a care infrastructure glad to sacrifice trans kids on the altar of appeasement.

www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...

I am thinking of teaching some online courses through Homodoxy...

Oh, that's a good idea! Some of these could for sure be reading groups. Yeah, I'd love to talk about your experience with it

email me! mr / at / homodoxy / dot / com

I've been wanting to spend some time with Florensky bc I haven't much yet

Some of them haven't published much yet, though. Which is EXCITING FOR THE FUTURE but also not very helpful for your question

I would take that class!

Wendy Mallette's book on lesbian feminist killjoys and sin isn't quite out yet, but she has published articles from it! Siobhan Kelly on trans- and intersexuality. Colby Gordon's Glorious Bodies. I am happy to send whatever I can find PDF-wise

The people I'm thinking of mainly aren't on Bluesky, or on social media, generally, in a professional capacity. Another goal in teaching these would be to build spaces where the more and less online of us can talk together hahaha

and to make some money, as I will soon be losing my Yale stipend.

to increase awareness of the longer history of gay/lesbian/queer/trans theologies and the breadth of genres that ought to be considered within those categories;

My goal would be to foster conversations about queerness, sexuality, and theology that begin from other starting places besides apologetic/antiapologetic arguments (i.e., what does scripture say, should queer people be allowed to do X);

WELL a course on Linn Tonstad's work to date

surveys of lesbian and trans theologies would also be great. either by me or some of my brilliants friends

Queer Episcopal Theologians

oh, well yes, a course on sodomy

HA a course on Imagining Gay Utopias: gay male nationalisms, Sodom, ecclesiology, urbanism/anti-urbanism, and Zionism. Something in there...

a course on post-supersessionist theology and varities of Christian anti-Zionism

a course on the theology of horrors: the Holocaust, the bomb, the Nakba, and AIDS

I have not yet read enough to do it, but eventually, I'd like to teach something on Jewish gay male literature of the 70s through 90s/today—writers like Daniel Mendelsohn, Seymour Kleinberg, Lev Raphael, Larry Kramer

gay/queer/trans imaginings of Jesus Christ / Christology

a course on nonreligious queer writers who draw on religious themes and aesthetics

theologies of HIV/AIDS

oooooo a course on New Narrative and queer theology—that would be niche but so fun and probably a good setup for an article...

a course on the writing of Mark D. Jordan

something about the way gays imagine future lovers, or a greater cloud of lovers, and the Christian doctrine of the communion of saints

I want to teach courses that line up with upcoming books I publish, where we read material surrounding the book and, when it's ready to print, the book itself

but that seems general