Introduction: Queer Political Theologies

Ricky Varghese is a psychotherapist and art writer based in Toronto. He is a candidate in training to become a psychoanalyst at the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis and is the inaugural Tanis Doe Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender, Disability, and Social Justice at Ryerson University (2020–22). He is currently working on two monographs, one about suicidality, the ethics of risk/risk-taking, and the death drive, and another about sexual difference and bodily comportment as represented in the socialist realist cinema of Kerala. He is also compiling an edited collection tentatively titled “Sex and the Pandemic.”

David K. Seitz is a critical geographer based in Los Angeles. His research investigates the cultural, political, and affective dimensions of geographic processes including gentrification, immigration, and queer community formation. He is assistant professor of cultural geography in the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, and extended faculty in the Cultural Studies Department at Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of A House of Prayer for All People: Contesting Citizenship in a Queer Church (2017) and recent articles in Antipode and Social and Cultural Geography.