Marc David Baer and Sarah Imhoff discuss each other’s works and the ways they intersect.
Practices of relation: Baer and Imhoff
sexuality
Divine!
I am interested in mothers that are fathers, fathers that are mothers, and other forms of queer gestation and parenting.
Time, gender-bending, and the medieval church
There is undoubtedly an element of drag in contemporary women wearing quasi-clerical garb—drag charged with coquettish sacrilege. These women are…
Sexy celibates and unmanly men?
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heavenly Bodies features stunning haute couture and trendy prêt-à-porter garments staged with objects from medieval…
The American romance of the not-so-little black dress
The focus on nuns in Heavenly Bodies highlights the historical oddness—really, the queerness—of nuns in the American imagination. It is…
Patriarchy without fatherhood in the Nation of Islam
In this forum’s considerations of fathers as God-like and God as father-like, the NOI, as well as the Black American…
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, something dead
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, which opened this past spring and will…
Trafficking as terror
The “war on terror” and the “war on trafficking,” two seemingly separate discourses, have become interwoven in recent years, castigating…
Islamic law from below: Between trust and distrust
Rumee Ahmed’s Sharia Compliant begins with a letter to his Muslim readers. The Arabic term for “letter” is risala, a…
Camp conviction and the politics of religion: Or, that naked public square’s really a drag
Discussions of religion in public life usually presume two things about religious conviction: it focuses on a set of beliefs…