Queer Youth Suicide as Disruptive Revelation of God
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14948705 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Marie Grovijahn, Jane Grovijahn (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 255-266 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0966-7350 • E-ISSN: 1745-5189 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0966735018756251 |
| OpenAlex | W2800277236 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This work positions queer youth suicide as deviant aperture into scandal within divine life through an ‘indecenting’ of kenotic agency located in the Incarnation itself. Refuting a heteronormative gaze that defines queer youth suicide as an expression of pathology, I present a disruptive coming out of God who redeems through scandal by posing these suicides as deaths for others. Drawing from two liberation theologians, I offer a construct of martyrdom within historical contexts of an excess of death that is capable of carrying the weight of their agency within a destructive heteronormative reality. Applying Althaus-Reid’s method of ‘indecenting’ within their last deviant act, both vitiated and vindicated in this kenotic agency of God, queer youth suicide becomes a preferred vehicle of divine delight and reclamation. Although disruptive, this divine eloquence spills out everywhere, cracking open a theological praxis where no one ever falls outside of God, especially in death
Criminology · Political science · Praxis · Queer · Revelation · Sociology · Theology · Gender Studies · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Theological Perspectives and Practices
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |