A queer & disabled lens on the Passion â Palm Sunday's campiness, the cross's folly, and becoming fools for Christ
"Palm Sunday isnât just a protest; itâs campy queer spectacle. And it follows in a holy tradition of prophetic pageantry...
[W]e remain in Holy Week, reenacting the foolishness of the Passion of Christ:
The Last Supperâs foolishness of eating and singing with friends when your world is collapsing around you; and the absurdity of the Son of God kneeling to do the work of women and enslaved persons;
Gethsemaneâs foolishness of refusing to flee those who would kill you while you still can, and of accepting a traitorâs kiss;
and, of course, the foolishness of the cross, where Life itself died. The recklessness of the women who followed after Jesus even to the foot of the cross, though they risked social death in doing so. The hope-against-hope of wondering whether maybe, just maybe, the miracle worker whoâs spoken time and again about rising from the dead might do just that â even while youâre rolling a stone that shuts his lifeless body up in the darkness of the tomb.
