This is one of these moments when I know that the Gospel compiler’s prejudices distorted his narrative.
We know that women were among Jesus’s most loyal and powerful followers;
Yet their existence has been suppressed in this list of disciples, that has been used to exclude women from positions of power within the church ever since.
Such is the power of names…
As an antidote, here’s the list of Queen Jesus’s disciples:
“This is how it all began.
A group of us, meeting as friends, because we wanted to change the world.
I don’t know why they started saying we were only men.
Some us are men. Dear Matthew the tax collector who like us was an outcast
And Philip who baptised the eunuch,
and John, who I so truly love.
But there are women too, of course there are,
Wild women, free women, Mary, Martha and Salome.
So yes some of us are men and some of us are women, and some of us are men who used to be women and some of us are women who used to be men and some of us are both at once and that confuses people, and I love that in us most of all.
Because we are the hijra from India and the kathoey from Thailand and the waria from Indonesia and the Bissu from the archipelago and the fa'fa’fine from Samoa and the muxe from Mexico and and the travesti from Brasil and the two spirit people from North America and the shamans from Siberia and the yan daudu from Nigeria
And verily verily I say unto you because it is undoubtedly true
That every culture in every place and time has known of us, and celebrated us mostly,
Except this one, and it is in the minority.”
(Mark 3;13-19)
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