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Published in October 2021, my first book Feminism, Queerness, Affect, and Romans: Under God? brings to life not only ideas and words but the feelings and sensations that moved in-between some of the earliest Christ-followers. It shows how queer wo/men were there in ancient Rome and the assemblies to whom Paul wrote.

Paul’s letter to the Romans arguably contains the Bible’s strongest condemnation of queer wo/men. But that is not the full story—or the full horror—lurking around this epistle and its audience of first-century queer wo/men. In the book, I move beyond the passages in Paul’s letter to the Romans where sexuality (1:18-32) or gender diversity (16:1-16) are explicit. Instead, I turn my feminist and queer gaze toward Paul’s conception of faith (especially in 3:21-31) and ethics (13:1-14). I make explicit how Paul’s theology throughout Romans has been affectively motivated by imperial notions gender and sexuality. Moving beyond Paul’s singular voice, I engage a feminist and queer praxis of assemblage to proliferate plausible ways queer wo/men of Rome interacted with this epistle.

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