"Anti-Gender" Discourse in the Twenty-First Century Polycrisis: Queer Theological Responses
The past few years have seen the proliferation of an "anti-gender discourse" unfold as a deeply concerning crisis for LGBT+ people. In this article, I explore the salient details of this crisis in the core Anglosphere countries of the United Kingdom and the United States. I outline how thi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Zygon
Year: 2025, Volume: 60, Issue: 3, Pages: 905–19 |
| Further subjects: | B
Queer
B polycrisis B Gender B LGBT+ B Crisis |
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| Summary: | The past few years have seen the proliferation of an "anti-gender discourse" unfold as a deeply concerning crisis for LGBT+ people. In this article, I explore the salient details of this crisis in the core Anglosphere countries of the United Kingdom and the United States. I outline how this discourse is a concern not only for LGBT+ people and their allies but, through its place within the twenty-first century "polycrisis," a concern for everybody. Because this discourse has its roots in Christian theological frameworks, I argue that responses from within Christian theology are likely to be particularly effective in countering the harmful knowledge it produces. Thus, I explore two directions of queer theological work that offer responses to this crisis: direct contestations of the claims made by this discourse about non-normative gender identities and expressions, and theologically driven reconfigurations of relationality for all people in which new approaches to gender can emerge. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zygon
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.16995/zygon.17590 |
