CrossCurrents: Trans-Spiritualities

CrossCurrents connects the wisdom of the heart with the life of the mind and the experiences of the body. The journal is operated through its parent organization, the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL), an interreligious network of academics, activists, artists, and community leaders seeking to engage the many ways religion meets the public. Contributions to the journal exist at the nexus of religion, education, the arts, and social justice.

In the March 2025 issue of CrossCurrents:

“Introduction: Being Trans, Being Religious, and a Few Other Things Besides” by S.B. Rodriguez-Plate

“A Praise Hymn for My Pronouns” by Micah Bucey

“Afro-Diasporic Dance, Queer Kinship, and the Praxis of Care: Sociopoetic Forces of Embodied Liberation” by Damien Pascal Domenack

“Incomprehensible Presences: On the Blessings of Not Fitting Binary Categories” by Joy Ladin

“Your Body” and “Body Painting” by Joy Ladin

“A Catholic Sister’s Quarter-century of Walking in Faith with Trans People” by David Van Biema

“You Were the Only One I Ever Wanted to Marry” by Bonnie Rose Marcus

“Aleph Mem Tav”, “H/our Glass (After Shakespeare Sonnet #18)”, and “I Conjure Horse!” by Bonnie Rose Marcus

“Beyond a Teleology of Transition: Re-Imagining gender transition through a trans Buddhist auto-ethnographic account” by Ray Buckner

“Looking up to Women in Transtheistic Faith and Practice” by Petra Peter Gardella

“Pour Out Your Rage on the Nations” by Max Strassfeld

“Stephanie A. Budwey, Religion and Intersex: Perspectives from Science, Law, Culture, and Theology”, reviewed by Shin Cheng

Resources for Trans Religious and Spiritual Life