Pride @ Phillips 2025 Bibliography
Recovering Absent Pasts, Repairing Foreclosed Futures: Queer Stories for Survival
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Cody J. Sanders
Exhibition by Kristin Hoover Gentry
"Our lives are made of stories. When queer and trans people come into being in the world, we often do so with little to no connection to the queer and trans ancestors who have come before us. We are cut off from the stories of our trans and queer histories – sometimes intentionally, and sometimes simply because the stories aren’t circulating in our communal sphere. With absented pasts, we often have difficulty imagining possibilities of persisting in the present or striving for flourishing futures. The “chrono-stress” of living in temporalities that cut us off from our pasts and preclude vision of possibilities for flourishing futures must be met with (re)connecting our stories to the narratives of queer and trans ancestors to whom we are related across time and space. We need the stories of our trans and queer pasts to survive and thrive in a present often intent on our erasure. And we need narratives of futurist possibility to resist the traumatic temporalities that foreclose potential futures." — Cody J. Sanders, PhD
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