Queering the American Dream: The Radical Imagination of Revolutionary Women
(By Angela M. Yarber)
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In Queering the American Dream, Angela Yarber ferociously reclaims women's and nonbinary people's place in history, legend and myth. With intelligence, warmth and humor, she weaves these stories into her own narrative of leaving her ministry, selling her home, and taking to the road with her wife and toddler. Joys, challenges and grief pervade the journey. The book illuminates a lineage of non-conformists who empower us through their example. And it's a road trip through an America whose dream is ripe for queering.
— Kate Evans, author of Call It Wonder and winner of the Bisexual Book Award
With moments of great beauty, wit, and grief, Yarber delivers a full-hearted affirmation of our common humanity.
— Kimerer L LaMothe, PhD. Author of Why We Dance
More than a memoir. More than a travelogue. More than a spiritual pilgrimage. Rev. Dr. Angela Yarber’s latest book, Queering the American Dream, is an interior adventure on an exterior territory leading to permanent, deliberately cultivated, choices meant to change herself, yes, but which also, through the generosity of her evocative prose, change us. The reclamation of her genuine vocation as a mediator for the grace of the world beams off the page with insight, wonder, and the touch of magic that all true transformation harbors. Read this book, and be forewarned—you will be changed for the better.
— Rev. Dr. Susan Corso, spiritual director and novelist
An adventurer’s guide to traveling from the heart. Chock-a-block with arresting beauty and facts, Yarber’s work documents a time and place in American history from her own unique perspective. As she travels the U.S., she asks the important questions about gods, the patriarchy, and her own privilege, all against a backdrop of the feminist icons whose stories she tells, and whose images she totes along the way.
— Lisa Kirchner, author of Blissful Thinking
“Queering the American Dream is a deep look at how powerful the tools of myth, legend and belief are in the crafting of our cultural dreams, and how those have historically been co-opted by the patriarchy. Through one woman's journey, with her beautiful, modern American family, we understand how her story, and all of our unique stories, fit into the greater picture of our national legends and the promises of America. The reader will experience a beautiful promise of what our nation can and will be, if we are brave enough to tell all the stories.”
— Daniella Mestyanek Young, Author of UNCULTURED: A Memoir of Cults, War and Belonging
“Queering the American Dream manages to be both fun and serious, visionary and achingly down-to-earth all at the same time—one minute you’ll be contemplating deeply about ecofeminism or microaggressions and the next minute you’ll be laughing about the peskiness of mosquitos. With unflinching honesty, Yarber weaves the complexity of life’s grief, injustices, and beauty into a captivating story of personal evolution that remains grounded in global revolution. Bolstered by the legacy of fierce women and goddesses from a myriad of faith traditions, Yarber’s creative courage to forge her own life inspires us all to dream, to adventure, to queer convention and explore.”
— Kyndall Rae Rothaus, author of Thy Queendom Come: Breaking Free from the Patriarchy to Save Your Soul
“This book is a narrative toolbox for dismantling an American Dream that is nightmarish for all who exist outside the restricting dictates of the white supremacist cisheteropatriarchal status quo. Yarber’s is a project of ‘queering’ at its best, invoking a pantheon of revolutionary women and provoking radical imagination for a more just and beautiful way of being. She helps us to summon courageous rage in the company of these subversive sister saints who have felt it before us, and, through their wisdom and hers, invites us to cultivate the precarious hope to go on in the revolution of radical imagination.”
— Rev. Cody J. Sanders, Ph.D., American Baptist Chaplain to Harvard University and Advisor for LGBTQ+ Affairs in the Office of Religious, Spiritual, & Ethical Life at MIT”
