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Jules Leslie Webb

Jules Leslie Webb is a Catholic transqueer scholar and visual artist living in Nashville, TN. She graduated from her undergraduate studies at Belmont University with a Bachelor's of Arts in Faith and Social Justice. Webb has created numerous educational comics and zines focusing on theologically-informed anarchist political paradigms (and praxis). She is the mind behind 'Feast of My Flesh', a deeply researched exploration of Flannery O'Connor's story 'A Temple of the Holy Ghost' and its modern political significance through the lens of her personal conversion narrative. You can find more of her work at xiantifa.itch.io and xiantifa.substack.com.

Essays

Flannery O’Connor’s Carnival Purity: A Question for Political Theology

The Catholic Southern Gothic author Flannery O’Connor’s short story A Temple of the Holy Ghost explores the contradictions of incarnation in ways relevant to contemporary discourse between Catholicity, political theology, and transfeminism. By engaging with the carnivalesque and Freud’s uncanny, I will apply the story to conversations about trans inclusion in Catholic communities.