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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
Over the past few years purity culture has become a hot topic in the secular press. The harm it inflicts on White women has been explored by a number of scholars and survivors in books (both popular…
Q&A
Religion Dispatches
When the summit on the future of the Catholic Church began on October 9, I allowed myself for the first time in many years to feel optimistic. I smiled at pictures of Pope Francis welcoming LGBTQ…
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Religion Dispatches
Over the last several years, there has been growing attention to the role of cultural appropriation in Halloween traditions . And yet, costumes based on religious clothing—such as the sexy nun—seem to…
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