At the upcoming Catholic Theological Society of America.
Hispanic/Latin@ Consultation
Alimento para la lucha: Retrieving a Prophetic Voice from Latina AmÈricaConvener & Moderator:
Carmen Nanko-Fernandez, Catholic Theological Union
Presenter: Neomi DeAnda, Loyola University, Chicago“Transgendered Images of Breast Milk: Recovering the Voice of MarÌa Anna ¡gueda de San Ignacio”
Leaders of religious orders of men and women throughout church history have used the image of breast milk. This presentation will retrieve the specific contribution of MarÌa Ana Egueda de San Ignacio’s (1695-1756), a Mexican Dominican nun. Her development of this image set in the backdrop of Latin American Catholicism expands the canon of creative and prophetic perspectives emerging from Latina America.
Respondent: Pamela Kirk Rappaport, St. John’s University, New York
I wonder what the Catholic parallel to Jumping the shark is? Oh yeah, heresy. 
Via Dawn Eden
Somehow I wonder if this is connected with this story.
Rehoboth Beach in Delaware isn’t a topless beach – but a few transgender men caused a stir by treating it like one.
Police say passers-by complained after the men removed their tops and revealed their surgically enhanced breasts over Memorial Day weekend. A lifeguard asked them to put their tops back on. The men initially refused, but covered up before police arrived.
Even if they hadn’t, though, Police Chief Keith Banks notes the men were doing nothing illegal. Since they have male genitalia, they can’t be charged with indecent exposure for showing their breasts. Banks says there’s no need for a specific law to address the issue.
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What the hell does transgenderism have to do with breast milk?
I know many of the mystics use images of breast milk in their writings. But seriously, transgenderism?
Well, probably Christ is shooting milk from His breast, or the blood from His side is turning into breast milk. Very medieval-standard.
Which isn’t to say that there might not be some “And then I felt myself turn into a man” stuff, along the lines of St. Perpetua’s dream of herself as a male gladiator fighting the Devil in the arena. “Be a man” is an idiom for “be strong and determined” in pretty much all the languages influenced by Greece and Rome, and so visual aid versions of the idiom show up in visions a lot. I see that she was also interested in the transformation of Christians into being more like Christ, so that also might be done with some kind of visual aid.
Shrug. Transgenderism to him who transgenderism thinks. For the rest of us, it’s more along the lines of “Man, I had the weirdest vision last night!”
Here’s some info about Sr. Maria Ana Agueda de San Ignacio:
http://professor.benjaminearwicker.com/personal/academic/1098-maria-ana-agueda.html
She and her biological sister were both precocious and nerds, so the other girls at their school picked on them. The professor postulates that this could only be explained by “some mental and social disorder”. (This is what comes of letting non-nerds become professors.)