Ethics of Resistance from the Margins of Liberation: Affect, Temporality, and Activism in Latinx Queer Theologies

In this paper, I examine how Latinx Queer theologies reimagine ethics as affective and temporal resistance to the geographic inequalities sustained by colonial Christian traditions. Drawing from Marcella Althaus-Reid, Mayra Rivera, Hugo Córdova Quero, Anderson Fabián Santos Meza, and Enrique Vega-Dávila, I explore how affect and temporality shape Christian responses to ecological and political violence amid the global resurgence of fascism as a modern colonial inheritance. Through an analysis of these thinkers’ critiques of power and embodiment in Latin America and the United States, I argue that extending their insights to contemporary fascism reveals and unsettles the uneven geographies of belonging caused and upheld by the Trump administration and their consequences for Latinx Queer Christian communities. In this way, I attempt to contribute to scholarly-activist discourse of reimagining eschatological and soteriological interventions that assert collective, intersectional notions of livability against colonial Christian traditions.