Dodging the Sisters: Why Queer Nuns Keep Going Viral

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence went viral in conservative media in June 2023 when the L.A. Dodgers announced plans to honor the local house of the order at the team’s annual Pride Night. Reporting on the ensuing scuffle focused largely on sports, politics, and culture wars, not on religion, and it largely misrepresented or overlooked the international order of queer and trans nuns at the heart of the story. In this program, Melissa M. Wilcox, Professor and Holstein Family & Community Chair of Religious Studies at UC Riverside, talks about who these nuns are and why they keep rankling the right and delighting the left. Series: "Ethics, Religion and Public Life: Walter H. Capps Center Series" [Humanities] [Show ID: 40374]

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Dodging the Sisters: Why Queer Nuns Keep Going Viral is an episode from Walter H. Capps Center (Audio) by UCTV.

This episode is 01:24:17 long.

This episode was published on Feb 3, 2025.

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