Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources for Adults, June 2023
prepared by Alvin R. Blount
Diocese of East Tennessee
Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity
-Rev. Elizabeth M. Edman
-Kindle $13.99
-hardcover $24.90
-paperback $17.00
-216 pages
-Beacon Press
-2016
-description: The Reverend Elizabeth Edman, also an advocate for LGBTQ justice, says that her queer identity taught her more about being a good Christian than the church. The author proposes that queer experience should be celebrated as virtuous and calls allChristians to a more robust understanding of their faith. She says that Christian love is not just tolerance, but queer people can help others understand a sacred space where queer Christians are recognized as gifts to the church.
Edman, E. (2016). Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity. Beacon Press.
A Burst of Light: and Other Essays
-Audre Lorde
-Jen Keenan, illustrator
-Kindle $9.99
-hardcover $12.79
-144 pages
-Ixia Press
-2017
-description: This Columbus Foundation National Book Award is a collection of essays where Lorde sends out a call to build communities that can only nurture our spirit. One of her quotations, “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare,” a mantra of many who practice social justice activism and see the need for radical politics.
Lorde, A. (2017). A Burst of Light: and Other Essays. Ixia Press.
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
-Audre Lorde
-Roxane Gay, editor
-Kindle $8.98
-paperback $16.95
-384 pages
-W. W. Norton & Company
-2020
-description: Audre Lorde is a self-described lesbian, mother, activist, and poet. She highlights her contributions of feminism, queer theory, and critical race theory in essays such as “I am Your Sister” and poems such as “Sister Outsider” and “A Litany of Survival.”
Lorde, A. (2020). The Selected Works of Audre Lorde. W. W. Norton & Company.
Beyond a Binary God: A Theology for Trans* Allies
-Tara K. Soughers
-Kindle $12.99
-paperback $16.95
-128 pages
-Church Publishing
-2018
-description: Soughers, an Episcopal priest, parent, and trans ally, reminds us that God is beyond all our categories and gender, and we are made in the likeness of God and not in just ways that we have in common with others.
Soughers, T. K. (2018). Beyond a Binary God: A Theology for Trans* Allies. Church Publishing.
Podcasts
For People with Bishop Rob Wright. (2023, June 2). Pauli Murray with Rosita
Stevens-Holsey [Audio]. https://www.buzzsprout.com/952672/12949903
Strengthening the Heartland. (2021, January 21). How to Affirm LGBTQ+ Youth
[Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/y_U_c87eoJc