{"id":13718,"date":"2021-07-08T11:19:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T15:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=13718"},"modified":"2021-07-08T11:19:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T15:19:59","slug":"velvet-and-pus-im-in-commonweal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2021\/07\/velvet-and-pus-im-in-commonweal.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Velvet and Pus&#8221;: I&#8217;m in Commonweal"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>queering:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And only now, decades later, I\u2019m realizing how much \u201cthe Catholic imagination\u201d and one familiar form of queer imagination have in common. These traditions don\u2019t simply overlap because Oscar Wilde and Steven Patrick Morrissey happened to be baptized in the Church (if such a thing could \u201chappen to be\u201d). They overlap because queer culture preserved and exemplified countercultural truths and unwanted beauties. What I found in the Church was at once strange and familiar\u2014and the familiarity, more than the strangeness, was the result of my experience in queer cultures. You may shape your tongue to Church Latin only to find that the words come out in Polari.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealmagazine.org\/velvet-pus\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>queering: And only now, decades later, I\u2019m realizing how much \u201cthe Catholic imagination\u201d and one familiar form of queer imagination have in common. These traditions don\u2019t simply overlap because Oscar Wilde and Steven Patrick Morrissey happened to be baptized in the Church (if such a thing could \u201chappen to be\u201d). 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