Queering Contemplation: Finding queerness in the roots and future of contemplative spirituality

By Cassidy Hall

by Magnus Ramage 3rd January 2025

Quakers are a queer people. Cassidy Hall defines ‘queer’ in two ways: one relates to sexuality, the other relates to ‘the ways we find ourselves subverting the status quo, forgoing norms, and engaging one another with open hearts and hands’. Both are areas where Friends have a long history.