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References

Bynum, Caroline Walker. Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages. Berkley: University of California Press, 1982.

DeVun, Leah. “The Jesus Hermaphrodite: Science and Sex Difference in Premodern Europe.” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 69, no. 2 (2008): 193-218.

Harl Sellew, Melissa. “Reading the Gospel of Thomas from Here: A Trans-Centred Hermeneutic.” Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, vol. 1.2 (Spring 2020): 61-96.

Sexon, Sophie. “Gender-Querying Christ’s Wounds: A Non-Binary Interpretation of Christ’s Body in Late Medieval Imagery.” In Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, ed. Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blak Gutt, 133-153. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2021.

Skoda, Hannah. “St. Wilgefortis and Her/Their Beard: The Devotions of Happy Wives and Non-Binary People.” History Workshop Journal, (April 2023): 1-24.

Further Materials

Betancourt, Roland. Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.

Hall, Susanne DeWitt. “Jesus: The First Transgender Man.” Huffpost, The Blog, May 16, 2016. Web.

Harwood-Jones, Markus. “Replying to @nyka251 there’s about as much evidence for my take on this as any other so [shrug emoji][male gender sign].” TikTok. Web.

Jones, Jude. “The Queer Body of Christ.” The Cambridge Language Collective, 2022. Web.

Spencer-Hall, Alicia, and Blake Gutt, eds. Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021.

Credits

The Queering the Collection series of highlights provides a platform to publish various interpretations of works in the collection that disrupt the traditional production of art canons.

Sebastian De Line is Associate Curator, Care and Relations at Agnes Etherington Art Centre.

Agnes thanks Dr Jennifer Awes Freeman for her contribution to this highlight.

Digital Project Coordinator: Danuta Sierhuis
Copy Editing: Alicia Boutilier
Photography: Bernard Clark
Audio: Danuta Sierhuis
Wordmark Design: Vincent Perez
Motion Graphic: Tara Pelow
Design: Kelsey Blackwell with Jessica Atkinson and Jonathan Gallivan

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