Queer Ministry's Reading Collection
Scroll to read books, articles, and research findings that impact the community.
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
Sonya Renee Taylor
"As we awaken to our own indoctrinated body shame, we feel inspired to awaken others and to interrupt the systems that perpetuate body shame and oppression against all bodies."
The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community
Malidoma Patrice Somé
"West African Elder, world-renowned author and teacher, came to the West to share the ancient wisdom, technologies and practices which have supported his people for thousands of years."
Jesus and the Disinherited
Howard Thurman
"The gospel may be read as a manual of resistance for the poor and disenfranchised. Jesus is a partner in the pain of the oppressed and the example of His life offers a solution to ending the descent into moral nihilism. Hatred does not empower—it decays. Only through self-love and love of one another can God's justice prevail."
Black Facts Survey: Increasing Shared Fate and Support for Black LGBTQ+ People
NBJC, HRC, the National LGBTQ Task Force, NCLR, Family Equality, and GLSEN
"To our knowledge, this survey is one of the first to seek explicitly to gauge attitudes among Black people on Black LGBTQ+ people and issues, making this both a groundbreaking study in that regard and also an introduction into fertile ground for more research."
2024 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People
The Trevor Project
"Amplifying the experiences of more than 18,000 LGBTQ+ young people across the U.S., these data underscore the harmful impact that anti-LGBTQ+ bullying and politics can have on youth mental health, while also giving us a roadmap to better support and uplift the LGBTQ+ young people in our lives."
Trans-Affirming Schools Project Resource Guide
Advocates for Youth
"This guide was developed as a direct response to the onslaught of anti-transgender disinformation and legislation in the U.S. This resource guide uses the theory of intersectionality – coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 – to refer specifically to the intersection of identities facing oppression."
Gender schema theory: A cognitive account of sex typing
S. L. Bem,
Psychological Review, 88(4)
"Gender schema theory is a cognitive theory to explain how individuals become gendered in society, and how sex-linked characteristics are maintained and transmitted to other members of a culture. The theory argues that there are individual differences in the degree to which people hold these gender schemata."
Social Role Theory
Alice H. Eagly & Wendy Wood,
Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology: Volume 2
"What causes sex differences and similarities in behavior? At the core of our account are societal stereotypes about gender. These stereotypes, or gender role beliefs, form as people observe male and female behavior and infer that the sexes possess corresponding dispositions."
Queer Bible Hermeneutics
Dr. Susanne Scholz,
Professor of Old Testament
Perkins School of Theology Southern Methodist University
"Queer biblical hermeneutics is a way of looking at the sacred text through the eyes of queer people. This blog site contains selected essays that students produced to educate the interested public about the ongoing scholarly discussions on reading the Bible."
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