A Quirky Queer Quaker performance artist and scholar
Playfully exploring the serious worlds of gender, religion, and Climate Change
From the Blog
The challenges of coming out from conversion therapy
While it feels like ancient history to me, my long and winding odyssey in what was called the Ex-Gay Movement, still informs a lot of...
LGBTQ + Hurricane = HELP!
Like most Americans, I have been transfixed and horrified by the size and scope of Hurricane Harvey, this mega storm that hit Texas and Louisiana...
So you want to be a transgender ally?
More and more I hear faith communities, schools, and organizations declare they want to do the work needed to stand in solidarity with transgender and...
A Queer Connecticut Quaker in Pennsylvania Amish Country
I just published a piece in Liturgy journal. When the editor first contacted me over a year ago, he wanted to know if I could...
The Need to Transgress the Bible
In his review of my new film, Transfigurations–Transgressing Gender in the Bible, Erik Hanson writes about his own need to transgress the Bible when he...
You are freaked out about Climate Change. Now What?
Regardless of how you might feel about David Wallace-Wells’ terrifying article about climate change, I have to admit, it has gotten some people talking. In...
A Conversion Therapy Story: Truth through Fiction
I have written an essay for the next edition of The Porch. It is about storytelling and how it is sometimes difficult to figure out...
My Sources of Inspiration–past and present
Marta Rusek interviewed me for her regular column, Words By Friends, the FGC Quaker News. Marta had questions about my Transfigurations presentation, which is now...