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Reading Scripture Event, Sept 14

Published on August 15, 2019August 24, 2019 by Mx Chris PaigeLeave a comment

If you’re in the Greater Charlotte, NC area, you should really try to join the Ministries Beyond Welcome team for “Reading Scripture across Trans-Queer Experience!”

This is exactly one of the reasons that I want to have OtherWise Christian Ambassadors (OCA) across the country (and perhaps around the world!). I can’t be in North Carolina that week, but our Ambassador, The Rev Debra Hopkins, will be present with copies of OtherWise Christian: a Guidebook for Transgender Liberation available for sale (please bring $25 cash)! Continue reading “Reading Scripture Event, Sept 14” →

Same-Gender-Loving

Published on July 22, 2019August 31, 2019 by Mx Chris Paige1 Comment

I don’t much use words like “lesbian,” “gay,” “bisexual,” “queer,” or even “homosexual” in OtherWise Christian: A Guidebook for Transgender Liberation, except for when I am quoting other people. Instead, I use “same-gender-loving.” Continue reading “Same-Gender-Loving” →

TransSaints

Published on July 18, 2019August 31, 2019 by Mx Chris Paige3 Comments

In 2009, Bishop Yvette Flunder contacted me about this idea she had for a formal transgender ministry of the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries (TFAM). She was calling it TransSaints.

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The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries (TFAM)

Published on July 17, 2019August 31, 2019 by Mx Chris Paige5 Comments

This week, I will be gathering with the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries (TFAM) in Atlantic City, NJ for the TFAM Convocation. The Convocation is an annual gathering of TFAM folk from across the country and around the world.

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Ballroom Community

Published on July 14, 2019August 31, 2019 by Mx Chris PaigeLeave a comment

In chapter 25 of OtherWise Christian: A Guidebook for Transgender Liberation, I wrote about ballroom culture, but with some fear and trembling. My knowledge of ballroom is mainly derivative, through friends/colleagues and through media. In an earlier time, the Philadelphia Trans Health Conference held Friday night ball events. In short, I know enough to know how little I know–and I know enough to know that it’s important to get it right.

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Ebed-melech: The “Other” Ethiopian Eunuch (CORRECTED)

Published on July 9, 2019September 9, 2019 by Mx Chris Paige3 Comments

CORRECTION: While the “other” Ethiopian eunuch DOES ~~n’t~~ appear in Transfigurations: Transgressing Gender in the Bible, I DIDN’T REALIZE IT!!

Here’s my advice watch BOTH the lecture version AND the performance version. There is some overlap, but you’ll miss some important insights if you only take the time to do one or the other.

Peterson Toscano has also done important work bringing this story to light. Ebed-melech wasn’t in the original performances (back in the day), but Toscano tells the story on the Transfigurations DVD in the lecture version, chapter 7, which debuted in the live performances around 2010 (according to Peterson).

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Queering the Ethiopian Eunuch: Strategies of Ambiguity in Acts, 2013

Published on July 3, 2019August 31, 2019 by Mx Chris Paige6 Comments

Queering the Ethiopian Eunuch: Strategies of Ambiguity in Acts by Sean D. Burke was a surprise winner for me. I stumbled on this book as I was doing an internet search for something else. I went on to cite Dr. Burke’s work in four chapters (4, 11, 15, and 20) of OtherWise Christian: A Guidebook for Transgender Liberation. Continue reading “Queering the Ethiopian Eunuch: Strategies of Ambiguity in Acts, 2013” →

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Published on June 28, 2019August 31, 2019 by Mx Chris Paige

Miss Major Griffin Gracy is a Black transgender woman and elder. She is a veteran of the Stonewall riots (which are credited with “kicking off” the modern “gay liberation” movement). Miss Major is a transgender icon, but perhaps an unlikely OtherWise Christian icon. However unlikely, she emerged as just such a figure in the final section of the final chapter of OtherWise Christian: A Guidebook for Transgender Liberation. Continue reading “Miss Major Griffin-Gracy” →