Elizabeth Pyne, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Mercyhurst University (Erie, PA). Her research and teaching focus on how traditions of faith intersect with questions of social and ecological justice.
The call to abolish the family sounds bad – really bad; then again, so does the end of the world. In a moment rife with talk of “environmental apocalypse,” the position of negativity and non-futurity assigned to queer people in Catholic environmentalism becomes a starting point for rethinking the role of “the family” in a genuinely integral and sustainable ecology.
