On Wholeness and Devotion

The Progressive Step

Abstract

The authors use the progressive step of currere to explore their conceptions of wholeness and devotion. Ren Dawe’s imagined futures as a trans person wrestle with identity, humor, and hope. Wholeness in the queer experience shows the necessity, through a progressive lens, of both learning how to cope and learning how to hope. Parker’s Progressive Devotions are based on an understanding of devotion as an intense and deep commitment or love that is expressed through action and ongoing practices. These Progressive Devotions, that explore understandings of facts, words, and imagination, taken separately and as a whole, attempt to contribute to a more complete, if still tentative, understanding of his present moment.