![Transgressing ‘white’ Transfiguration](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Dalit-drum-600x450.jpg)
A political theology of the transfiguration of Jesus has to expose and transgress the elevation of whiteness as divine, as a norm and as something superior to multi-coloured local expressions of faith. It also calls us to celebrate the mystery of transfiguration as trans-figuration of the body ethic of Jesus and of all humanity.
![Butler, Norms, and Mystical-Political Hope](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/3525799414_8ac2f251f5_o-600x450.jpg)
Judith Butler’s work in queer theory inspires Catholics to consider the material relations of the body and contributes to a mystical-political, eschatological hope.
![Immersions in a Contagious Summer](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Mikvah_-_goldberg-600x600.jpg)
Given the history of othering and control of women’s bodies, it may surprise you to learn that the mikveh has become a central site of Jewish feminist, and more recently, queer and trans activism. Across the United States, Canada, and Israel, participants in a grassroots Modern Mikveh Movement have been collectively reclaiming what many have considered to be among the most irredeemable misogynistic forms of bodily disciplining.
![Embodying Compassion: the Theological and Political Content of Disability](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/5184878703_5f75709b77_o-600x600.jpg)
…theologies of disability can aid human flourishing, because caring for people of varied abilities made in God’s image allows us all to create more just and compassionate political systems
![Peeing in Public is Never a Crime](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/4611753482_1efdbda123_o-e1520512209723-600x600.jpg)
The necessary elimination of fluids from the body shouldn’t be the pretext for the unnecessary elimination of immigrants from the body politic.