A curious wondering stretches throughout this dissertation, about the scholars, writers, and thinkers—activists, poets, mystics, freedom dreamers, and heretical schemers—who reside outside of Theology, who are beyond done with what Theology has claimed and insisted on as God, and yet who generate a critical and creative discourse of the sacred. Turning toward these dissident spiritual offerings, subjugated epistemologies, and queer ontologies, I trace a queer poetics of the sacred—an otherwise intervention of 'love as lifeforce,' in order to subvert patterns of domination within and beyond Theology. Drawing connections between different experiences of enfleshed life without collapsing, homogenizing, tokenizing, or appropriating such differences, opens possibilities for coalitional mobilizing and kinship connection necessary for collective survival, and liberation.

This dissertation articulates a queer theopoetics of collective liberation, practiced through sacred enfleshment. Each chapter emphasizes a lineage of sacred wisdom, unearthing the offerings generated from intentionally living otherwise. Such offerings breathe life into even the most suffocating conditions. From Black feminist wisdom, to the wisdom of transqueerness, to mysticism, magic, and the heretical, then through a final chapter on movements enfleshing the contemporary practices of these wisdoms, I trace a queer theopoetics of collective liberation that encourages survival and nourishes joy. By confronting the homogenizing forces that have ensnared so much of the history of Theology, and turning toward more radical, indecent, and wayward possibilities, I explore new patterns and pathways of politicized spiritual practice that can sacralize and salvage the preciousness of entangled life.