65 episodes
Drag & Spirituality Bonnie Violet, a queer chaplain
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- Society & Culture
Drag is Sacred begins LIVE at QCF Conf on 1/14/2024
In each episode, Bonnie Violet, a queer chaplain, guides a conversation surrounding Drag and Spirituality, with 56 drag artists of a variety of spiritual experience, gender, age, race, sexual orientation, size, ability, and styles of drag. Bonnie Violet, would like to showcase the intersectionality between drag and spirituality - that neither are mutually exclusive- and to integrate both the individual & people as a whole into ONEness.
👑 Drag & Spirituality Summit - Oct 31- Nov 3 - Toronto, Ontario CA https://www.dragandspirituality.com
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Queer Christian Fellowship Conference 2023 - Albuquerque New Mexico
Queer Christian Fellowship Conference 2023 - Albuquerque New Mexico
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Try This In A Small Town - Drag Queen Panel Discussion
Try This In A Small Town - Panel Discussion
✨ Miss Cali Je is an Episcopalian and a drag artist from Pocatello, ID. She has worked most recently as an advocate for queer people across the state. She grew up Baptist, but was received into the Anglican tradition as a young adult.
https://www.instagram.com/joecrppr
🍦 Kylie Minono grew up in Nampa Idaho and currently resides in San Francisco. She was elected Grand Duchess 39 with the Grand Ducal Council and has helped to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for local charities. She is also a highly sought-after entertainer and was crowned Miss Star Search 2015. Known for her generosity and kindness, many have referred to her as “San Francisco’s Sweetheart.” The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence have sainted her - “Saint Huggable Grand Duchess of the Bulging Purse, Fundraiser Extraordinaire.” In her professional life she works in the nonprofit sector in fundraising and philanthropic services. She has served on the board of directors for Folsom Street Events and the GLBT Historical Society.
Kylie is also a minister with The Church of Fabulosity.
https://www.instagram.com/kylieminono
Miss Linda Summers also joined the conversation
https://www.instagram.com/misslindasummers
Saturday - October 14, 2023 Time 11am PST
📍Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco
1187 Franklin St - Cathedral Hill, San Francisco CA USA
👑 Drag & Spirituality Summit 2023 📍 San Francisco, CA USA
🌐 https://dragandspirituality.com
💛 Donate https://dragandspirituality.com/donate
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📆 Schedule https://dragandspirituality.com/schedule
♿️ Accessibility https://dragandspirituality.com/accessibility
🧡 Sponsored by Glide Memorial Church & Glide Pride Team
🌐 https://www.glide.org
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Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at Drag & Spirituality Summit 2023
Originally Livestreamed on Ocotber, 14, 2023
💠 Sister Merry Peter found her vocation through the Radical Faeries in 1987 and served as a missionary in Toronto before moving to San Francisco in 1999. Her life-long activism focuses on HIV-AIDS, queer youth, civil rights, and social justice. As a divinity student, she co-founded the first LGBT Student Union at the University of Toronto and led a successful national campaign against conversion therapy in Canada. Her efforts include partnerships to provide street-level health services to sex workers, transgender and gender non-conforming inclusion, legal aid for LGBTQ+ refugees, and resistance to police violence. She is a poet, writer, and former sex-worker. As an ordained minister, she joined the fight for equal marriage in San Francisco in 2004 and regularly performs wedding ceremonies. She lives on the coast with her husband of 22 years.
https://www.instagram.com/sistermerrypeter
💠 Ben “Simon” Dinglasan (they/them/their) is a founding member of CDW and serves as Vice Provost and Formation Guardian. They were born in the Philippines and raised in New York City, eventually moving to San Francisco where they became a friar with the Society of Saint Francis from 2007 to 2014. They are a Candidate for Holy Orders in the Episcopal Diocese of California and are in the final year of the Master of Divinity degree at Bexley Seabury Seminary, a nonresidential school based in Chicago. In addition to supporting the life of the Companions as a Formation Counselor and in numerous other practical ways, they are also a trained spiritual director and meet with folks regularly to companion them on their journey of nurturing a deeper intimacy with their spirituality/higher power/connection to the Universe/sense of self. Simon is serving as a student intern this year at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist in the Mission.
💠 Queer nun Sister Diana Fyre FKA Queer nun Sister Agnes Dei’Afta Tamara, photographed by Benjamin Benoit for the book Sister Stories… In Their Own Words. Sister Stories documents the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence - San Francisco’s queer nuns, famous for their charity and social activism.
💠 Sister Hellen Wheels of the Daughters of the Divine Eruption or Brother Sirius Lee, I am a retired Fully Professed Member of the San Francisco Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc. the San Francisco Mother House. I started with The Sisters in 1988. After 26 years of service and thousands of hours of behind-the-scenes work, I am not retired. Retirement doesn’t equal resignation in the Sisters so I will still be attendin g a few select events.
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
🌐 https://www.thesisters.org
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence® are a leading-edge Order of queer and trans nuns. We believe all people have a right to express their unique joy and beauty.
Since our first appearance in San Francisco on Easter Sunday, 1979, the Sisters have devoted ourselves to community service, ministry and outreach to those on the edges, and to promoting human rights, respect for diversity and spiritual enlightenment.
We use humor and irreverent wit to expose the forces of bigotry, complacency and guilt that chain the human spirit.
Saturday - October 14, 2023 Time 245pm PST
📍Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco
1187 Franklin St - Cathedral Hill, San Francisco CA USA
👑 Drag & Spirituality Summit 2023 📍 San Francisco, CA USA
🌐 https://dragandspirituality.com
💛 Donate https://dragandspirituality.com/donate
✨ Sponsor https://dragandspirituality.com/sponsors
📆 Schedule https://dragandspirituality.com/schedule
🧡 Sponsored by Glide Memorial Church & Glide Pride Team @glidechurch
🌐 https://www.glide.org
Brought to you @aqueerchaplain
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@dragandspirituality
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T for Transformation: Religion. Relapse. Remission. - Keynote Mama Ganuush at Drag & Spirituality Summit 2023
Streamed live on Oct 14, 2023
Mama Ganuush is a survivor who has overcome multiple traumas, including religious trauma, conversion therapy, rape trauma, and the weight of African heritage and intergenerational Palestinian genocide. As a Queer activist and refugee, they found sanctuary in the Bay Area and discovered the empowering world of drag, which helped them confront gender dysphoria and build a loving chosen family. MamaGanuush established House Ganuush, a haven for acceptance, and actively contributes to the Queer arts scene through events like Vocal AF. In addition to their successful career in marketing and technology, they serve as an equity advisor and board member for nonprofits that support their community. MamaGanuush's dedication to activism and giving back shines through their contributions to Mascara, a fundraiser for the Queer Harm Reduction group at the Castro Country Club.
Saturday - October 14, 2023 Time 145pm PST
📍Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco
1187 Franklin St - Cathedral Hill, San Francisco CA USA
👑 Drag & Spirituality Summit 2023 📍 San Francisco, CA USA
🌐 https://dragandspirituality.com
💛 Donate https://dragandspirituality.com/donate
✨ Sponsor https://dragandspirituality.com/sponsors
📆 Schedule https://dragandspirituality.com/schedule
🧡 Sponsored by Glide Memorial Church & Glide Pride Team
🌐 https://www.glide.org
Brought to you by @aqueerchaplain
🌐 https://www.aqueerchaplain.org
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My Body, My Spirit - Embodiment Panel for Drag & Spirituality Summit 2023
💠 Rev. Dr. Anastasia Kidd is a pastor, educator, storyteller, and fat activist who studies how Christian colonialism helped establish structural anti-fatness in U.S. society and beyond. She believes that identifying with unrepentant fatness can help undermine all that is wrong with the world by reconnecting humanity with the abundance of nature, practicing sustainable communal relationships, and cultivating beautiful and pleasurable ethics. Find her @FatChurch on Instagram and at https://www.FatChurch.org. (Our apologies, Anastasia was unable to attend due to COVID-19)
Cotton TheAct Hotty is a campy, comedy drag king who knows how to carry a tune! As a founding brother of the Haus of Hotty, Cotton comes in flaming, looking to inspire others with his smoking charm. From hosting a a residency at Hard Rock Casino South Lake Tahoe to producing numerous shows, he loves philanthropy and variety. Between his touch and his feel, Cotton really is the fabric of our lives. https://www.instagram.com/cotton_theact
❤️🔥 Todd Hotty has been spicing the tea since 2006 starting as a member of the Little City Kings in Reno. Now based out of San Francisco, he sets hearts on fire throughout various locales throughout Northern California and Nevada. He is an Imperial Crown Prince of San Francisco and a founding Brother of the Haus of Hotty. Todd believes that you have to love the many versions of yourself so that you can love others! Catch his next performances by checking out his IG @Todd.Hotty ❤️🔥https://www.instagram.com/todd.hotty
🐉 King LOTUS BOY is a shapeshifting, transgender and nonbinary, unapologetically disabled, Chinese-American drag king and anti-disciplinary artist based in occupied Lisjan Ohlone Land (Oakland, CA). He explores gender fluidity, accessibility, spirituality, and healing from trauma, through the mediums of poetry, lipsync, ancestral movement (qigong and tai chi), monologue, and original music. Zir work uplifts issues regarding ableism, anti-Asian racism, transphobia, and sustainability, often incorporating humor as a vessel of universal connection. With every performance, they aims to help the audience learn—or unlearn—something about themselves and the world around them. https://www.instagram.com/kinglotusboy
🎵 Original Music, "A Strange Kind" by Stephen "Kitean" Sandknopp 🎶 Friday - October 13, 2023 Time 245pm PST📍 Castro District, San Francisco CA USAThe Castro Community Room, 501 Castro (BofA Building)
👑 Drag & Spirituality Summit 2023 📍 San Francisco, CA USA
🌐 https://dragandspirituality.com
💛 Donate https://dragandspirituality.com/donate
✨ Sponsor https://dragandspirituality.com/sponsors
📆 Schedule https://dragandspirituality.com/schedule
Brought to you by @aqueerchaplain
🌐 https://www.aqueerchaplain.org
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Over the Rainbow 🏳️🌈 From Shame to Pride - Keynote by Fonda Koxx at Drag & Spirituality Summit 2023
Fonda Koxx AKA Eric Dorsa is a National LGBTQ+ Mental Health Advocate and Activist. They are the host of “Speaking Out Loud” a social media series with Eating Recovery Center and Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Center. Eric is an LGBTQ activist, actor, comedian, and drag queen currently living in New York City. As an advocate for the LGBTQ community, Eric shares their experiences of mental health, coming out as a gay and non-binary person, and their recovery from trauma. Eric has been featured on Texas Public Radio “Worth Repeating”, Mental Note Podcast “Drag Queen Wisdom”, Huffington Post Queer Voices, and has given an award winning 2014 TEDx Talk entitled “ How Dressing in Drag Made Me Uncover My Authentic Self.”
https://www.instagram.com/fkdrag
Sponsored by Eating Recovery Center & Pathlight Behavioral Health
https://www.instagram.com/eatingrecovery
https://www.instagram.com/pathlightbh
Friday - October 13, 2023 Time 415pm PST
📍 Castro District, San Francisco CA USA
The Castro Community Room, 501 Castro (BofA Building)
👑 Drag & Spirituality Summit 2023 📍 San Francisco, CA USA
🌐 https://dragandspirituality.com
Brought to you by a queer chaplain
🌐 https://www.aqueerchaplain.org
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