The Sisters are an order of self-named queer nuns who parody Roman Catholicism, and at the same time make an earnest and very serious claim to be nuns—just not Roman Catholic ones.
Melissa Wilcox
Melissa M. Wilcox is Professor and Holstein Family and Community Chair of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author or editor of several books and journal issues, and numerous articles, on gender, sexuality, and religion. Her latest book, Queer Nuns: Religion, Activism, and Serious Parody, is forthcoming from the Sexual Cultures Series at New York University Press in May 2018.
