Emma Cieslik

2 months ago | whitehotmagazine.com | Emma Cieslik |Danielle Wilde

By EMMA CIESLIK February 18, 2025This past February 8th, Yorkshire lesbian poet Danielle Wilde performed her sonnet cycle  “Saint Joan of BFD”(Wild Pansy Press, 2025) at Holy Trinity Church in Islington, London. The event, hosted by the Florence Trust and The Writers’ Room, featured Wilde alongside artist and curator Hang Zhang. In the early hours of the evening, The Writers’ Room welcomed visitors into Danielle’s Open Studio where they could see her collection of teen magazines from the 1990s.

Jan 7, 2025 | religiondispatches.org | Emma Cieslik

When Luigi Mangione was arrested for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson he had in his possession a handwritten document in which he described healthcare corporations as “mafiosa [that] have gotten too powerful,” and declared that he was “the first to face it with such brutal honesty.” His image has since proliferated on saint candles, prayer cards, posters, while frequent RD contributor Ed Simon notes in “The Canonization of St. Luigi” that “authorities inadvertently...

Dec 19, 2024 | 100daysinappalachia.com | Emma Cieslik

Under fluorescent stage lights at a bar outside of Louisville, Baby St. Jane strips off her burgundy gown to reveal a black lingerie bodice. The room shakes with hoots and hollers from the audience as the Appalachian drag queen — born and raised in rural Kentucky — seems to glimmer on stage in her electric blue wig. St. Jane lives in Louisville now, but she was born and raised in Clay County — a small Eastern Kentucky county with a population of just over 20,000.

Dec 12, 2024 | hyperallergic.com | Emma Cieslik

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. On December 7, Pope Francis attended the opening of Nativity of Bethlehem 2024, a nativity scene exhibition in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. One scene featured olive wood sculptures of Mary, Jesus, and Joseph designed by Johny Andonia and Faten Nastas Mitwasi, two Palestinian artists from Bethlehem.

Nov 29, 2024 | msmagazine.com | Emma Cieslik

Right after the election, Pastor Joel Webbon, president of the Right Response Ministries, said that half of his vote was stolen from him by the 19th Amendment—that would be the 1920 amendment that enshrined women’s right to vote. As Webbon noted in his podcast, he does “allow” his wife to vote so that half of his “stolen” vote can be returned to him.