For this week’s #ThrowbackThursday, lets honour #TransDayofRemembrance and look back at our 2021 author interview with Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt about their collection titled, 'Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography.'
Link: https://rb.gy/mrjm82
Their work explores the complex ways that gender and disability were understood in the sphere of Medieval hagiography. Through this collection, the authors challenge historical perspectives on the cis, white, and male-dominated genre of historical study.
“Sanctity and queer genders just go together in the Middle Ages.” Says Gutt in our interview, “The holier an individual was, the less bound they were to the earthly gender binary.”
Mystical notions of saintly divinity actually allowed the performativity and fluidity of gender to become an inevitable feature of the subject’s self in this era of humankind. Spencer-Hall expresses that by creating this collection the editors ultimately seek to restore trans and genderqueer histories, dismantle white-supremacist cis-heteropatriarchy, and spread general trans and genderqueer joy.