God and Other Lost Causes

The Catholic church is a corrupt organization bent on oppressing women and queer people. Before I came out, I started praying.

The Lord is a sucker for a festive color scheme. Photo by Shot by Cerqueira on Unsplash

In the year before I transitioned, I started sending prayers to the shrine of Saint Jude.

Jude, for those unfamiliar, is the hardest-working of Catholic saints, and the reason for this…