I’m looking over past blog entries and realizing that I didn’t yet have a landing page for curriculum options. I’ve already posted about several options, but there are more that I’ll be adding as this isn’t yet a complete list! Most (but not all) of these are oriented toward Christian audiences. I would love to learn about additional resources to support conversation in other traditions!
Continue reading “Transgender and Religious Curriculum Guide”
I began formally using the term “OtherWise-gendered” in OtherWise Christian: A Guidebook for Transgender Liberation (now available in hard cover!). However, framing an anthology around the term “OtherWise” is a different play. Rather than take up space up front unpacking the term, I created an Appendix that talked about it. It is excerpted here:
By Mx Chris Paige
Excerpt from OtherWise Christian 2: Stories of Resistance, edited by Mx Chris Paige
Continue reading “OC2: What is “OtherWise-gendered”?”
Continue reading “OC2: Ms Rebecca Kerns”If you want to walk with us, you need to recognize our strength and power. … Before you use us as a talking point, please stop to speak face-to-face with an intersex person.
Ms. Rebecca Kerns in
“Dear Pastor”
OtherWise Christian 2: Stories of Resistance
Continue reading “OC2: Chaplain Mir Plemmons”I could not find rest in the Bible, but I clung to it until from this same book leaped this eunuch, powerful and strong and politically savvy… claiming his place in Jerusalem’s Temple to worship.
Mir Plemmons in
“The Ethiopian Eunuch–and Me”
OtherWise Christian 2: Stories of Resistance
Continue reading “OC2: Ms Lianne Simon”I knew that my Redeemer loved me, and that was enough for me. Nothing was impossible for God.
Ms. Lianne Simon in
“Resurrected Bodies”
OtherWise Christian 2: Stories of Resistance
Continue reading “OC2: Mr Nick Manchester”
After my third suicide attempt, a therapist finally told me that I was not the only one like me in the world. … I finally knew that others existed, and it was a balm for my soul.Nick Manchester in
“Doctrine”
OtherWise Christian 2: Stories of Resistance
Continue reading “OC2: The Rev Dr Donovan Ackley III”Living enslaved to the cultural expectations of others is not required of us in Christ.
The Rev Dr Donovan Ackley III in
“Every Body Is Good. You’re Welcome.”
OtherWise Christian 2: Stories of Resistance
Foreword by the Rev Victoria Kolakowski (retired)
Preface by Mx Chris Paige
Introduction by Mx Chris Paige
I’m honored that the producers invited me to screen Stories of Intersex and Faith, but I’ve been struggling to put appropriate words to what I feel about this important film. The contrast that I am struggling with is that it is both accessible and deep, simple and insightful. So, I am going to break my review down into two parts in order to try to do justice to both aspects without trivializing the other.
Continue reading “Review: Stories of Intersex and Faith (film)”
There is an article going around talking about how people are increasingly understanding gender as a spectrum. Of course, that’s an improvement from thinking of gender as two and only two mutually exclusive options.
Still, it’s like popular thought moving from one-dimensional thinking to two-dimensional thinking when there are other people busy exploring the time-space continuum and quantum physics (at least four-dimensions!). In other words as a culture, we are finally buying into “Newtonian” gender when “Quantum” gender is already in our midst.
Gender is not just one spectrum. It is not an orchestrated migration from one end of congruent “more masculine” traits towards “androgyny” and on to “more feminine” traits. Such a framework is still going to lead to mis-gendering and pathlogizing people. A proper framework for gender would eliminate “gender non-conforming” as a category altogether–by affirming that none of us are expected to comply with the way someone else constructs gender in their mind.
I prefer to think of gender as a Koosh Ball because there are so many aspects to gender.
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