“To God, I Was Visible, and I Was Beautiful”: Parody and religious organizational resisting within (UN)CHANGED online narratives

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COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1080/01463373.2022.2046622

Katie Kassler, Amorette Hinderaker

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ABSTRACT Evangelical Christian groups have forwarded ex-gay rhetorics since the 1970s, shaping grand narratives of LGBTQIA+ exclusion within Christian spaces. Using a dialectic approach to organizational resistance, the current study traces the textual discursive interplay between narratives of the ex-gay Christian organization, CHANGED, and of the parody pro-LGBTQIA+ Christian organization UNCHANGED to uncover how LGBTQIA+ Christians resist exclusionary heteronormative grand narratives. We conducted a microstoria analysis of 108 personal narratives from both groups and found four emergent themes central to UNCHANGED members’ resistance processes: (a) narrated identity dissonance, (b) proclamation of God’s Truth, (c) mechanisms for resistance, and (d) rewards for living out God’s Truth. This study advances two important theoretical considerations: the utility of parody as an online resistance strategy and a reconceptualization of resistance as chronic (i.e., organizational resisting). Further implications, limitations, and future directions for research are discussed.

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“对上帝来说，我是可见的，我是美丽的”:模仿和宗教组织抵制(UN)改变了网络叙事

自20世纪70年代以来，福音派基督教团体一直在传播脱同修辞，塑造了基督教空间中LGBTQIA+排斥的宏大叙事。本研究采用组织抵抗的辩证法，追溯了前同性恋基督教组织change和仿拟支持LGBTQIA+基督教组织UNCHANGED的叙事之间的文本话语相互作用，以揭示LGBTQIA+基督徒如何抵制排他性异性恋规范的大叙事。我们对来自两组的108个个人叙述进行了微观故事分析，发现了四个新兴的主题，这些主题是“不变”成员抵抗过程的核心:(a)叙述的身份失调，(b)宣讲神的真理，(c)抵抗机制，(d)活出神的真理的奖励。本研究提出了两个重要的理论考虑:模仿作为在线抵抗策略的效用和抵抗作为慢性(即组织抵抗)的重新概念化。进一步的影响，局限性和未来的研究方向进行了讨论。

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