CrossCurrents connects the wisdom of the heart with the life of the mind and the experiences of the body. The journal is operated through its parent organization, the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL), an interreligious network of academics, activists, artists, and community leaders seeking to engage the many ways religion meets the public. Contributions to the journal exist at the nexus of religion, education, the arts, and social justice. In the December 2 8 issue of CrossCurrents: "Editorial" by Stephanie Y. Mitchem "Ribs Like Starfish" by Katie Horowitz "Toward a Black Femme Fugitive Poetics" by Joy Priest "Free to Be Me" by Brett Harris "Quare/Kuaer/Queer/(E)ntersectionality: An Invitational Rhetoric of Possibility" by Amber Johnson "Praying for Pieces: A Practice in Building the Trans Body" by K. J. Cerankowski "Being More Than an Ally" by Todd C. Shaw "Not Here: Catholic Hospital Systems and the Restriction Against Transgender Healthcare" by Eric Plemons "Embodiment, Gender, and Re-ligion" by Stephanie Y. Mitchem "Proclaiming the Truth of God's Transgender People" by Sister Luisa Derouen "Let a Hundred Pieties Bloom!" by Peter Heinegg "How the Bad Guys Won" by Peter Heinegg "Christendom, A Planetary Sketch" by Peter Heinegg
