Though different in important ways, what Edith Stein wrote of Jewish people in 1933 Germany could be written of LGBTQ people in 2023 US. With right-wing politicians and Christian leaders serving up today’s caricatures and hatred removed from the experience of loving us.

This is one of the ways she can speak to us across time, offering us a model of love and an image of resilience. With the loss of her career to Nazism, she made space to focus on autobiography. She declined to leave the place that was her home. She was killed, and she was remembered.