Description of S1620, and a depiction of its sponsor, Christopher Murphy.

S1620
A bill to amend chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, with respect to prohibited financial transactions, and for other purposes.

📢 Introduced in Senate

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@IMC_Leeds @MxComan @ladymede @SophieKelly59 @chantermestuet @thiscreatur @romaiophron Big thanks also to our receptive audiences & valiant livetweeters sharing the #s1221 #s1620 #s1720 joy

Huge thanks to speakers on #s1221 #s1620 & #s1720 at @IMC_Leeds - proud to have been involved in these exciting, important conversations

Closing #imc2017 #s1720 with response from Mathilde van Dijk, drawing together 4 key motifs across #s1620 & #s1720

@chantermestuet MN: Brother Joseph's deadname = Hildegund of Schonau, identity w which he is celebrated as a saint, listed in collections #s1620 #imc2017

@chantermestuet MN: Brother Joseph story 1st set down by Cistercian Engelhard of Langheim (BHL 3936) #imc2017 #s1620

@chantermestuet MN: her full argument for this is set out in forthcoming book, The Sacramental Imagination of Engelhard of Langheim #imc2017 #s1620

@chantermestuet MN: argues Engelhard of Langheim wrote for Cistercian nuns & monks who did not fit C12th gendered social binaries #imc2017 #s1620

@chantermestuet MN: Circulation of Brother Joseph story shows tale "plausible, exemplary & to be admired" #imc2017 #s1620

@chantermestuet MN: specifically adding nuance to her reading of the Story of Brother Joseph, now incl trans identities #imc2017 #s1620

@chantermestuet Finishing our lineup for #s1620 #imc2017, Martha Newman reflecting on developments beyond gender binaries, revising earlier article

@chantermestuet AO: See in partic the concluding epilogue of Eufrosine's Life - model of transcending gender for all #imc2017 #s1620

@chantermestuet AO: Not just saints exhibiting queerness, but also lay people around the saint eg St Eufrosine's father #imc2017 #s1620

@chantermestuet AO: cites scholarship by Karma Lochrie & Emma Campbell on need to recognize non-heteronormative nature of hagiography #imc2017 #s1620

@chantermestuet Now up: Amy Ogden, "Imitating Saints' Transgressive Genders" #imc2017 #s1620

@chantermestuet . @chantermestuet offers nuanced reading of St Fanuel as trans man, based on linguistic traces & diegetic affective details #imc2017 #s1620

@chantermestuet . @chantermestuet deploys "anamorphic & trans gaze" to look back at medieval texts to restore trans genealogy & history #imc2017 #s1620

@chantermestuet . @chantermestuet "What we now call trans identities are by no means solely a modern phenomenon" #imc2017 #s1620

@chantermestuet . @chantermestuet emphasises the important political work inherent in establishing an authentic history of trans lives & experience #s1620

@chantermestuet . @chantermestuet draws on Kathryn Bond Stockton's 2009 book, The Queer Child #s1620 #imc2017

Guest Post by Blake Gutt - Medieval Trans Lives in Anamor... In a Medieval, She Wrote first, it's my great pleasure ...

@chantermestuet View @chantermestuet slides at http://bit.ly/stfanuel #s1620 #imc2017

So excited for 1st Hagiography Soc panel today #s1620 #imc2017, kicked off by @chantermestuet speaking on trans saint & "backwards birth"

Delighted to say that @IMC_Leeds 2017 will feat 2 panels on trans & genderqueer sanctity - #s1620 #s1720 - sponsored by Hagiography Soc