Dylan Damore
Dylan Damore
Stations
Jesus, your journey has been long. You fall again, beneath your cross. You know your journey is coming to an end. You struggle and struggle. You get up and keep going.
[Source: catholic.org, Station 9: Jesus falls a third time.]
These are the words I spoke every Friday during Lent when I was growing up; words that have since suffocated me. Just as Jesus struggled to carry his cross on the last days of his life, I struggle to bear the cross of my identity in a religious space that is unlikely ever to accept me. Being queer in the Catholic church is sinful, yet it is only sinful because the powers that be have ordained it to be so. Stations redresses the Stations of the Cross. It mocks the fourteen stations, from Jesus’ persecution to his being laid in the tomb, just as, in my experience, the Catholic church has made mockery of me, of my identity. My work lays bare the loneliness and hardship that I and others like me endure at the hands of the church because we openly embrace our queer identity.
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