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Emma Cieslik

Emma Cieslik (she/her) is a queer, disabled religious scholar and museum worker based in Washington, DC. She studies the intersection of religion, gender and sexuality, and material culture. She founded and currently directs Queer and Catholic: A CLGS Oral History Project based out of the Pacific School of Religion.

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Religion Dispatches

Rebranded as 'Biblical Counseling,' Conversion Therapy is 'a Colonizing Effort' — A Q&A With The Author of 'Shame-Sex Attraction'

Last December, the evangelical organization Alliance Defending Freedom filed a lawsuit challenging Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy, claiming that it violates freedom of speech. Conversion therapy…
Emma Cieslik
Q&A
Religion Dispatches

'Saint Luigi, Patron Saint of Healthcare Access for All' — Enraged by Corporate Health Care Some View Assassin as a Folk Hero

When Luigi Mangione was arrested for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson he had in his possession a handwritten document in which he described healthcare corporations as “mafiosa have…
Emma Cieslik
Article
Religion Dispatches

Amid Growing Legitimacy Challenges from its Right and Left, Vatican Seizes Control of the Supernatural — to Prevent 'Abuses'

On May 17, the Vatican overhauled its process for evaluating and verifying supernatural phenomena, from apparitions of the Virgin Mary to her statues weeping tears or blood. The guidance released by…
Emma Cieslik
Article