Whiplash Podcast: Identity, Transformation, and Naming Harm
Recent chat about how sacred defiance undoes the fear-driven worldview of fundamentalism
On the Whiplash Podcast hosted by
and , we talked about the “Transforming Power of Queerness.”Fundamentalism — ranging from new religious movements, to high-control Catholicism, to gender essentialism — creates a “culture industry” that traffics in fear, repression, and a hatred of creativity and difference. However, queer identity can serve as an antidote to these negative systems.
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As we learn about ourselves, we in turn learn more about our neighbors, our world, and the divine — and so, accepting and appreciating identity draws us into a way-of-being that is truly generative, from a place of intrinsic and internal consolation.