Our Fall 2025 Online Lavender Lunches Program

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Tuesday, 9 September 2025 | 1pm to 2:15pm (Pacific Time) |ONLINE

Professor Lisa Asedillo: Queer, Called, and Conspiring: AAPI Theologies for a World on Fire

Framed through the lens of Queer AZN and Pasifika Critical Race Theory (Alvarez et al., 2024), this presentation by PSR Professor Lisa Asedillo (Pacific School of Religion) weaves AAPI theologies with the six core tenets of this emerging framework, centering embodied memory, relational healing, and spiritual resistance as resources for community-rooted praxis.

 

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Tuesday, 14 October 2025 | 1pm to 2:15pm (Pacific Time) |ONLINE

Professor Thomas Kurtz and Rev. Jim Mitulski: Sacred Activism Singing For Our Lives During the AIDS Crisis: Queer Christian Hymnody

In this CLGS Lavender Lunch, Professor Thomas Kurtz (University of San Francisco) and Rev. Jim Mitulski investigate how modes of musical expression – including sound, lyrics, and performance – are inextricably linked to understanding history as activism among Queer communities.

 

 

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Tuesday, 11 November 2025 | 1pm to 2:15pm (Pacific Time) |ONLINE

Professor Ish Ruíz and Guests: LGBTQ+ Catholic Ministry: Future Trajectories

We invite you to join us for this CLGS Lavender Lunch, which will feature Professor Ish Ruíz (Pacific School of Religion) a distinguished panel of leaders from various LGBTQ+ ministry organizations, including Outreach, New Ways Ministry, Dignity USA, and the Marianist Social Justice Collaborative LGBT Initiative.

 

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Tuesday, 9 December 2025 | 1pm to 2:15pm (Pacific Time) |ONLINE

Professor Chris Finley: Queer Indigenous Thrival: Remembering Our Histories and Ancestors

In this CLGS Lavender Lunch Professor Chris Farley (University of Southern California) will address the tensions between thrival and survival and move towards theorizations of Queer Indigenous hope and generosity in these times of despair because this is not the first time we have faced annihilation and world-ending events and survived.

 

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