S. Hicks – författare

This study is based upon original research carried out with lesbian, gay and queer parents and explores how genealogy, kinship, family, everyday life, gender, race, state welfare and intimacy are theorized and lived out, drawing upon interactionist, feminist, discursive and queer sociologies.

This study is based upon original research carried out with lesbian, gay and queer parents and explores how genealogy, kinship, family, everyday life, gender, race, state welfare and intimacy are theorized and lived out, drawing upon interactionist, feminist, discursive and queer sociologies.

This study is based upon original research carried out with lesbian, gay and queer parents and explores how genealogy, kinship, family, everyday life, gender, race, state welfare and intimacy are theorized and lived out, drawing upon interactionist, feminist, discursive and queer sociologies.

Hope has rotted.What remains is something colder.The Raven: Odes of Desolation is a descent into ruin—where faith fractures, silence festers, and something ancient begins to take shape in the dark.These poems do not offer comfort.They linger in the aftermath of collapse, tracing the quiet moments where everything once held sacred is stripped away. What follows is not redemption—but transformation.Where The Dove whispered of survival, The Raven speaks of what comes after.When hope is gone,something else answers.

Hope did not arrive. It survived the ruin.The Dove: Hymns of Silence is the first cycle in Psalms of Ruin and Rebirth, a dark poetic series tracing faith, destruction, and endurance through mythic imagery and quiet defiance.These poems follow the symbolic figure of the Dove — not spared from suffering, not protected from collapse — but shaped by it. Through ash, silence, and fractured belief, the Dove learns what it means to persist when hope is no longer gentle.This collection is written for readers drawn to dark poetry, spiritual struggle, and survival without false promises. It is not a book of easy comfort — it is a hymn for those who endure.