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Drag & The Divine: A Lavender Lunch with Mama Celeste

20 April 2021

Click here for a video recording of this Lavender Lunch! The music! The wine! The headdresses! No, we’re not just talking about Midnight Mass at the Vatican. We’re talking about drag! From ancient shamans to Purim celebrations, drag performance has always had a place in spiritual traditions. And for many queer people, drag and nightlife culture […]

Lama Rod Owens: “Love and Rage: The Path to Liberation.” The 14th Annual | 2021 CLGS John E. Boswell Lecture

18 April 2021 by Lama Rod Owens

Click here for a video recording of this lecture! Love and Rage: The Path to Liberation with Lama Rod Owens | The 14th Annual | 2021 CLGS John E. Boswell ONLINE Lecture In our present day, when a politics of anger infuses every institutional and cultural sphere, Lama Rod Owens, author of Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger, explores […]

An Exploration of Queer and Trans Ministry with our Trans Seminarian Leadership Cohort: An ONLINE CLGS Event!

07 April 2021

Click here for a video recording of this event! At this event members of the Trans Seminarian Leadership Cohort, a group of trans and non-binary seminary students, explore ministry and religious leadership in our current social and political climate. Presenters also share their own individual callings and experiences in religious formation. In addition they discuss how […]

Communities of Faith and Justice with Revs. Liz Muñoz, Altagracia Pérez-Bullard, and Daniel Vélez-Rivera. A CLGS Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation.

27 March 2021 by Altagracia Pérez-Bullard, Daniel Vélez-Rivera, Liz Muñoz

Click here for a video recording of this event! In this, the third event in our new CLGS Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation series, we explore three ministerial careers shaped by the pursuit of faith and justice. Each panelist offers reflections on where we’ve been, are, and will be as Latinx Christian leaders. Enjoy the discussion! OUR […]

Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context with Professor Golan Moskowitz. An Online CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event!

23 March 2021 by Golan Moskowitz

Click here for a video recording of this event! The late Jewish American artist Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) changed the face of children’s literature and paved the way for the reconsiderations of monstrosity and Otherness that pervade contemporary media, from Sesame Street to Stranger Things. His emotionally isolated, unruly, and ethnically particular protagonists use fantasy to resist social coercion and self-erasure. In Wild […]

Queer Palestinian Solidarity: A Lavender Lunch with Tarek Abuata

10 March 2021 by Tarek Abuata

Click here for a video recording of this CLGS event! CLGS and the newly-formed Palestine Solidarity Round Table (PSRT) at Pacific School of Religion were honored to co-host this Lavender Lunch on the topic of Queer Palestine Solidarity with Tarek Abuata who speaks about a justice-based theology that calls each of us to join together to work for the […]

Queer Ecologies & Climate Justice: A Lavender Lunch with Deseree Fontenot

01 March 2021 by Deseree Fontenot

Click here for a video recording of this CLGS event! How do ecological justice and queer liberation intersect? As climate chaos escalates, LGBTQ people, especially QTBIPOC, are among frontline communities hit first and worst by the consequences. LGBTQ people also have a unique embodied knowledge of what it takes to change, transition, and survive and are […]