%0 Journal Article
%T Queer Youth Suicide as Disruptive Revelation of God
%A Jane Marie Grovijahn
%J Feminist Theology
%@ 1745-5189
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0966735018756251
%X This work positions queer youth suicide as deviant aperture into scandal within divine life through an ¡®indecenting¡¯ of kenotic agency located in the Incarnation itself. Refuting a heteronormative gaze that defines queer youth suicide as an expression of pathology, I present a disruptive coming out of God who redeems through scandal by posing these suicides as deaths for others. Drawing from two liberation theologians, I offer a construct of martyrdom within historical contexts of an excess of death that is capable of carrying the weight of their agency within a destructive heteronormative reality. Applying Althaus-Reid¡¯s method of ¡®indecenting¡¯ within their last deviant act, both vitiated and vindicated in this kenotic agency of God, queer youth suicide becomes a preferred vehicle of divine delight and reclamation. Although disruptive, this divine eloquence spills out everywhere, cracking open a theological praxis where no one ever falls outside of God, especially in death
%K Youth suicide
%K God
%K Althaus-Reid
%K deicide
%K queer
%K martyrdom
%K indecenting
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0966735018756251