Join the Davenport Public Library on Thursday, October 30th at Eastern for a book talk and signing with author M. Wolff, a highly decorated professor of Religion and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Augustana College. Body Problems: What Intersex Priest Sally Gross Teaches Us About Embodiment, Justice, and Belonging, published in August 2025, is their first book. After their talk, The Atlas Collective bookstore will sell copies of Body Problems and Wolff will be available for signings. 

Registration is appreciated but not required.

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“In Body Problems, M. Wolff offers groundbreaking insight into Sally Gross, a South African intersex priest and activist whose body was continuously policed and politicized. Gross’s role in founding Intersex South Africa and her involvement with the African National Congress are celebrated in the Apartheid Museum, but the complex dimensions of her life—from her Jewish heritage to her Christian priesthood and Buddhist practices—remain largely unexplored. Wolff illuminates these lesser-known aspects of Gross’s spirituality and theorizes her resistance to the regulation of intersexuality. The book urges readers to rethink bodies and belonging, particularly as they relate to formations of gender and religion. Wolff presents Gross’s life as a guide for discerning our commitments to social justice and responsible relations. Body Problems is a timely and expansive contribution to ongoing discourses on the medical, religious, and political construction of bodies.” (Description provided by publisher).