In Monterrey, where Jenni had just performed what was to be her final concert, fans processed the streets carrying candles and images of her, just as in the religious processions that have occurred throughout Latin America since the arrival of the Spanish over five hundred years ago. From Mexico to California, shrines in her honor have surfaced in neighborhoods and lawns.
Listen up, conservative pundits. You can’t say that because God isn’t in a classroom, that we have reaped what we’ve sown—and then ask for guns in schools at the same time.
The recent spate of mass killers all sought to solve their problems with a certain expression of gun violence that maps easily onto the masculinist roots of Christianity and other religious traditions—particularly in more conservative expressions.
Gregory Bottoms is an English professor at the University of Vermont. He is the author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction, including the memoir “Angelhead: My Brother’s Descent Into Madness” (U…
Violence against queer people runs much deeper than physical bullying, verbal harassment, or even hate-crime murder. It is a violence that takes place at the level of the psyche, the soul—at the very level at which our sense of “self” is constructed within our relation to society.