Attached Paper In-person November Annual Meeting 2026

The Spiritual Care of Queer Abolition Geography

Abstract for Online Program Book (maximum 150 words)

This paper makes two main interventions. First, I will elaborate a new method for theological reflection rooted in Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s Marxist geography: what I am calling queer abolition geography. Second, to demonstrate the affordances of this geographical method of theological reflection, I will present a case study from my work as a spiritual care provider at a community hospital in San Francisco: hospital chaplaincy as queer abolition geography.