Christopher H. Conn
Christopher H. Conn is a queer Southern writer whose work examines power, consent, and the institutional structures that shape identity. His writing operates at the intersection of personal narrative, Jungian psychology, and systems analysis — tracing how authority manufactures compliance, how institutions counterfeit the self, and what individuation actually requires when every structure around you has been designed to prevent it.
He grew up in Nashville, attended Brentwood Academy and Auburn University, and worked in radio promotions at Word Records before his life moved through the federal justice system and into behavioral healthcare. He founded Fidelity Behavioral Health, a closed-continuum program in Colorado serving justice-involved and unhoused individuals that was studied by a SAMHSA workgroup for its approach to integrated delivery.
His memoir, Consent Without Language, is a queer Southern coming-of-age that traces a life shaped by evangelical institutions, the Bible Belt's architecture of silence, federal prison, and the long work of spiritual reclamation — examining how the persona collapses, what shadow material surfaces, and what integration looks like when it's no longer theoretical. He lives in Greenwood Village, Colorado.
Speaking
Christopher speaks on institutional power, queer identity and the evangelical South, Jungian frameworks for understanding institutional capture, and the architecture of recovery. Topics include:
How institutions manufacture consent · Shadow, persona, and institutional identity · Queer coming-of-age in the Bible Belt · Spiritual reclamation after evangelical capture · Behavioral health and justice-involved populations · The Five Theses framework
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