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This thesis looks at how black church communities address ongoing violence against transgender and queer people in the United States. It posits criticism of religious intolerance from transgender and queer perspectives do not always mean skepticism of Christianity itself. Critic…

This thesis demonstrates that Britten’s works were intended to arouse examination of the tension between queerness and tradition as a reflection on the cultural climate in postwar Britain. I address the enduring fixation with Britten’s “symptoms” as they permeate existing schola…

The Candlemaker is a hybrid novel that explores the intersection of queerness, archives, and history in the rural South.

This collection of poetry, “Hold Me While We Burn,” centers on several facets of my identity as a queer woman raised in the southwest. Primarily, the project serves as a literary space where I vacillate between the most engaging and pleasurable aspects of queerness/lesbianism an…