Theresa Zoe Williams

@theresazoe.bsky.social

Bisexual Catholic writing emo gospel + saints reflections. Punk rock, babies, and Jesus. Going through it right now, with appearances by rum. http://theresazoewilliams.substack.com

We have raised enough money to get Emmy a home nurse until Monday morning and are halfway to getting that nurse through Monday evening! Her doc has submitted the emergency request for a free at home nurse but that won’t start until later in the week. If you have any pocket change, everything helps!

Theresa Zoe Williams@theresazoe.bsky.social · last wk.

You might remember our friend Emmy from WCT. She is in a medical crisis caused by insurance. They’re trying to kill her. Info in the graphic. Venmo me and every cent goes to her. venmo.com/u/theresazoe

We have raised enough money to get Emmy a home nurse until Monday morning and are halfway to getting that nurse through Monday evening! Her doc has submitted the emergency request for a free at home nurse but that won’t start until later in the week. If you have any pocket change, everything helps!

Theresa Zoe Williams@theresazoe.bsky.social · last wk.

You might remember our friend Emmy from WCT. She is in a medical crisis caused by insurance. They’re trying to kill her. Info in the graphic. Venmo me and every cent goes to her. venmo.com/u/theresazoe

Emmy is still in a really precarious and dangerous spot. Pls keep the prayers coming and spare some change if you can. We’ve got an emergency fund for her to cover any expenses that come to keep her safe!!

Theresa Zoe Williams@theresazoe.bsky.social · last wk.

You might remember our friend Emmy from WCT. She is in a medical crisis caused by insurance. They’re trying to kill her. Info in the graphic. Venmo me and every cent goes to her. venmo.com/u/theresazoe

We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.

In honor of Dolly, who always said to be authentically yourself, I dressed in my most audaciously punk outfit today. As it turns out, it also honors Tim Curry, as this would be an outfit I’d wear to Rocky Horror. May God rest their souls and give us strength

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

This remains one of my favorite quotes from the encyclical "Quadgragesimo Anno." There are those men who call themselves Catholic while undermining Catholic Social Doctrine to such a degree that workers and the poor think the Church is on the side of the rich. The Lord hears the cry of the poor.

 125. It is certainly most lamentable, Venerable Brethren, that there have been, nay, that even now there are men who, although professing to be Catholics, are almost completely unmindful of that sublime law of justice and charity that binds us not only to render to everyone what is his but to succor brothers in need as Christ the Lord Himself,[57] and - what is worse - out of greed for gain do not scruple to exploit the workers. Even more, there are men who abuse religion itself, and under its name try to hide their unjust exactions in order to protect themselves from the manifestly just demands of the workers. The conduct of such We shall never cease to censure gravely. For they are the reason why the Church could, even though undeservedly, have the appearance of and be charged with taking the part of the rich and with being quite unmoved by the necessities and hardships of those who have been deprived, as it were, of their natural inheritance. The whole history of the Church plainly demonstrates that such appearances are unfounded and such charges unjust. The Encyclical itself, whose anniversary we are celebrating, is clearest proof that it is the height of injustice to hurl these calumnies and reproaches at the Church and her teaching.