Exit Strategy (For My Grandmother,Margaret Gingrich)

Abstract

This autoethnographic essay, based upon the author’s performance of the same name, details a nexus of political and personal events that fostered suicidal ideation in the face of religious homophobia, as well as how an artifact of his late grandmother’s helped him move past that ideation. It uses the phrase “exit strategy” in multiple ways to reveal the limits of thinking that resistance to oppression can ever rest.