Queer Devotions
67 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago -Rainbow Faith and Freedom presents the podcast, Queer Devotions. Hosted by researcher Brigitte Pawliw-Fry, we learn from a wide variety of 2SLGBTQ+ people, including activists, scholars, religious leaders, artists and elders, about what it means to navigate the world of faith or spirituality. Learn more here: www.rainbowfaithandfreedom.org. Connect with us about it on Twitter and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rainbowfaithandfreedom and https://twitter.com/rainbow_freedom.
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What Counts as Work for Queer and Trans People? Spiritual Reclamations with Comic Artist and Illustrator Syan Rose
September 28, 2021 06:00 - 33 minutes - 26.8 MBWhat gets to count as work for queer and trans people? This is a question illustrator and comic artist Syan Rose's remarkable collection, Our Work is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance, explores through illustrations of her interviews with activists. Published this year, Rose provides an energetic source of connection and community. On our Queer Devotions podcast, we got a chance to ask Rose about the process of interviewing and illustrating so many activis...
Transpirituality and Recovery with A Queer Chaplain Bonnie Violet
September 21, 2021 05:00 - 58 minutes - 46.9 MBBonnie Violet, a trans, gender queer drag queen, has many stories to tell. Growing up in Idaho, Bonnie Violet first found a fulfilling community in church and felt a calling within her to be of service to others. But her queerness and transness didn’t feel compatible, at first, with the church, and she left it for a decade. But that calling still lived within Bonnie, as she worked in HIV/AIDS advocacy, and she began to reclaim the spiritual thread in her life, undertaking a remarkable proce...
The Queerituality Road Trip with Queer Chaplain Mandi Rice
September 15, 2021 13:12 - 27 minutes - 22.4 MBIn 2013, the queer chaplain Mandi Rice embarked on the ‘Queerituality’ road trip, speaking with nearly 100 people across 17 American cities, asking one very big question: “What is life like for you at the intersection of queerness & spirituality?” On our Queer Devotions podcast, Rice described the incredible organic momentum of the project and its legacy almost ten years later, as well as the ‘Queerituality Guide' she put together which condensed her findings. The Queerituality Road Trip and...
Conversion Therapy is Still Prevalent in Canada, So How Do We Finally End the Practice? With Dr. Travis Salway
August 17, 2021 04:00 - 30 minutes - 24.5 MBIn June of this year, our guest, Dr. Travis Salway, published an astonishing report with co-authors about the continued prevalence of conversion therapy in Canada, which you can read in full here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0252539. Among the many important findings, the report shows that 67% of conversion therapy happens in religious contexts, for the population they studied. We sat down with Dr. Salway to discuss this report and talk about how RFF and...
Why Are Queer and Trans Youth Such a Disproportionate Part of the Houseless Population in Canada? With Dr. Alex Abramovich
July 07, 2021 10:45 - 25 minutes - 20.3 MBDr. Alex Abramovich, our guest today, is an expert on 2SLGBTQ+ youth houselessness - and has been addressing the issue for the past 10 years. Internationally recognized for his work, Dr. Abramovich is one of few Canadian researchers studying the phenomenon of queer and trans youth homelessness. In our conversation today, I ask about why queer and trans youth are so much more likely to be housing insecure than their cisgender or heterosexual peers, how religious intolerance plays a role in fo...
Mapping the Landscape of Faith-Based Heterosexism and Transphobia in Canada
June 28, 2021 09:00 - 51 minutes - 41.4 MBToday's episode is a bit different. Today, Queer Devotions features an audio production of RFF's report, "Mapping the Landscape of Faith-Based Heterosexism and Transphobia in Canada," which compiles research to ask: which sectors of society are most influenced by religious bias on the basis of sexual or gender minority status? If you'd like to read the text or follow along, please visit: https://rainbowfaithandfreedom.org/blog/2021/6/3/rff-report-mapping-the-landscape-of-faith-based-heterose...
“From Prisons to Dyke Bars:" The Music and Politics of Singer-Songwriter Faith Nolan
June 22, 2021 04:00 - 37 minutes - 30.1 MBAccomplished activist and musician Faith Nolan is a global-minded lesbian who takes her music from prisons to dyke bars. In our last official episode of the series, Faith talks about her deep roots in queer, women’s and anti-poverty activism. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Faith is the founder and director of three different choirs in Toronto, and a producer of the film, Within These Cages, about women in prison. Faith and I had a lively conversation, and she discussed the contributions of le...
The Queer Evangelist with Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo
June 01, 2021 16:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MBToday’s guest needs no introduction - Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo gives new meaning to the word icon. With the Order of Canada, a seat in Ontario parliament for twelve years, and as the only woman to sign Canada's first gay liberation manifesto "We Demand" in 1971, Cheri has done it all. This April, Cheri put out a new book called, "The Queer Evangelist," a memoir which looks back at her 50+ years of activism. In this conversation, we discussed radicalism versus reform and what resistance means to...
As Grassroots As It Gets: Pushing for Same-Sex Equality in the 90s with Cait Glasson
May 25, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBCait Glasson is singular - a polyglot, linguist and translator - who also moonlights as a gamer YouTuber. In 1994, Cait formed a core part of a key battle for queer rights in Ontario, pushing then Premier Bob Rae and his ilk to include same-sex equality rights in the omnibus bill. It ultimately failed - by nine votes - and showed the continued power of religious conservatives to influence politicians' stances on queer rights, particularly in the Kitchener-Waterloo region. Cait is generous wi...
The Impact of the AIDS Epidemic Decades On with Anthony Mohamed
April 20, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 47.9 MBToday on Resisting the Script: 25+ Years of Queer Activism, we will be talking with Anthony Mohamed. Anthony is an award-winning community activist, and has worked to bring equity to healthcare, across Ontario and in Toronto. In this episode, Anthony shares his eyewitness accounts of the gay liberation movement and watching the AIDS epidemic unfold around him, first called the “gay disease.” Anthony shares how it transformed queer communities in Toronto - and reflects on the core politics th...
The Impact of the AIDS Epidemic Decades On with Anthony Mohamed
April 20, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 47.9 MBToday on Resisting the Script: 25+ Years of Queer Activism, we will be talking with Anthony Mohamed. Anthony is an award-winning community activist, and has worked to bring equity to healthcare, across Ontario and in Toronto. In this episode, Anthony shares his eyewitness accounts of the gay liberation movement and watching the AIDS epidemic unfold around him, first called the “gay disease.” Anthony shares how it transformed queer communities in Toronto - and reflects on the core politics th...
The Poetics of Queer Resistance: An Hour with Nicole Tanguay
March 30, 2021 04:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MBIn our first official episode of the series, Resisting the Script: 25+ Years of Queer Activism, the poet and activist Nicole Tanguay joins to talk about their forty plus years of attending demos, raising hell and the experiences of queerness later in life. We say the biggest thank you to Nicole! If you'd like to learn more about Nicole's work, here are a few places to check out: Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer: https://chbooks.com/Books/A/Any-Other-Way The Yellow Medicine Review: http...
The Poetics of Queer Resistance: An Hour with Nicole Tanguay
March 30, 2021 04:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MBIn our first official episode of the series, Resisting the Script: 25+ Years of Queer Activism, the poet and activist Nicole Tanguay joins to talk about their forty plus years of attending demos, raising hell and the experiences of queerness later in life. We say the biggest thank you to Nicole! If you'd like to learn more about Nicole's work, here are a few places to check out: Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer: https://chbooks.com/Books/A/Any-Other-Way The Yellow Medicine Review: http...
Bonus Episode: 'Fighting the Good Fight 45 Years Later' with LeZlie Lee Kam
March 25, 2021 14:00 - 13 minutes - 9.18 MBToday in our first unofficial episode of the series, LeZlie Lee Kam, community organizer and founder of Out of the Closet Lecture Series, joined to speak about why this project matters, how queer seniors' experiences are marginalized within 2SLGBTQ+ conversations and the invisibilized impacts of COVID-19 on the community. Want to learn more about LeZlie's series? YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnwtKtQRA5ttO87By1w6ikg Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OUToftheClosetLectureS...
Bonus Episode: 'Fighting the Good Fight 45 Years Later' with LeZlie Lee Kam
March 25, 2021 14:00 - 13 minutes - 9.18 MBToday in our first unofficial episode of the series, LeZlie Lee Kam, community organizer and founder of Out of the Closet Lecture Series, joined to speak about why this project matters, how queer seniors' experiences are marginalized within 2SLGBTQ+ conversations and the invisibilized impacts of COVID-19 on the community. Want to learn more about LeZlie's series? YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnwtKtQRA5ttO87By1w6ikg Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OUToftheClosetLectureS...
Resisting the Script: 25+ Years of Queer Activism Series Trailer
March 23, 2021 16:00 - 2 minutes - 1.98 MBQueer elders’ stories matter! Announcing, Resisting the Script: 25+ Years of Queer Activism, a special series in partnership with Out of the Closet Lecture Series and New Horizons for 2SLGBTQ Older Adults. Through this podcast we hope to introduce you to unwritten histories of queer organizing in Ontario, the people who are central to these histories and direct witness to them. These voices in this series include Nicole Tanguay, poet and community worker, Cheri DiNovo, politician and reveren...
Resisting the Script: 25+ Years of Queer Activism Series Trailer
March 23, 2021 16:00 - 2 minutes - 1.98 MBQueer elders’ stories matter! Announcing, Resisting the Script: 25+ Years of Queer Activism, a special series in partnership with Out of the Closet Lecture Series and New Horizons for 2SLGBTQ Older Adults. Through this podcast we hope to introduce you to unwritten histories of queer organizing in Ontario, the people who are central to these histories and direct witness to them. These voices in this series include Nicole Tanguay, poet and community worker, Cheri DiNovo, politician and reveren...
Pillar Episode: Queering the Talk with Hannah Maitland
March 16, 2021 04:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBHow do we hold conversations about what it means to be both LGBTQ2S+ and religious or spiritual? How do we learn to frame discussions of gender, sexuality and faith in effective ways? Brigitte interviews Hannah Maitland, a PhD student at York University, who has led a successful series on queer pedagogies with her colleagues, identifying key tools to bring into your next discussion.
Pillar Episode: Queering the Talk with Hannah Maitland
March 16, 2021 04:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBHow do we hold conversations about what it means to be both LGBTQ2S+ and religious or spiritual? How do we learn to frame discussions of gender, sexuality and faith in effective ways? Brigitte interviews Hannah Maitland, a PhD student at York University, who has led a successful series on queer pedagogies with her colleagues, identifying key tools to bring into your next discussion.
Pillar Episode: Catholics in Recovery with Elders leZlie lee kam and Lila Pine
March 02, 2021 16:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBThis is a very special episode that we are rereleasing this week! In the fall, Brigitte spoke with facilitator and storyteller, leZlie lee kam, and academic and artist, Lila Pine, two elders and dear friends who came to know each other through a performance in the Youth Elders Project at Buddies in Bad Times in Toronto. Describing their shared experiences of being schooled in Catholic institutions and the violent colonialism enacted upon both of their communities, leZlie and Lila reflect on...
Pillar Episode: Catholics in Recovery with Elders leZlie lee kam and Lila Pine
March 02, 2021 16:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBThis is a very special episode that we are rereleasing this week! In the fall, Brigitte spoke with facilitator and storyteller, leZlie lee kam, and academic and artist, Lila Pine, two elders and dear friends who came to know each other through a performance in the Youth Elders Project at Buddies in Bad Times in Toronto. Describing their shared experiences of being schooled in Catholic institutions and the violent colonialism enacted upon both of their communities, leZlie and Lila reflect on...
Pillar Episode: Decolonizing Gender with Hazim Ismail
February 16, 2021 17:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBThis is such a favourite episode that we are releasing it with a new intro! Queer, nonbinary and Muslim anthropologist Hazim Ismail brings to Queer Devotions a wealth of knowledge on the long history of gender fluidity and colonialism’s role in imposing strict and violent definitions. In a deeply informative conversation, Brigitte speaks with Hazim about how misconceptions of the incompatibility with queerness and religion, their early teachings about gender in a Muslim context, and so much ...
Pillar Episode: Decolonizing Gender with Anthropologist Hazim Ismail
February 16, 2021 17:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBThis is such a favourite episode that we are releasing it with a new intro! Queer, nonbinary and Muslim anthropologist Hazim Ismail brings to Queer Devotions a wealth of knowledge on the long history of gender fluidity and colonialism’s role in imposing strict and violent definitions. In a deeply informative conversation, Brigitte speaks with Hazim about how misconceptions of the incompatibility with queerness and religion, their early teachings about gender in a Muslim context, and so much ...
Pillar Episode: Decolonizing Gender with Anthropologist Hazim Ismail
February 16, 2021 17:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBThis is such a favourite episode that we are releasing it with a new intro! Queer, nonbinary and Muslim anthropologist Hazim Ismail brings to Queer Devotions a wealth of knowledge on the long history of gender fluidity and colonialism’s role in imposing strict and violent definitions. In a deeply informative conversation, Brigitte speaks with Hazim about how misconceptions of the incompatibility with queerness and religion, their early teachings about gender in a Muslim context, and so much ...
From the Bathhouse Raids to Black Lives Matter: 40 Years Since Brent Hawkes' Hunger Strike
February 15, 2021 15:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBToday is a special bonus episode to commemorate and contextualize the 40 years since Brent Hawkes' went on a 25-day hunger strike in protest of the Bathhouse Raids, which was the second largest mass arrest in Canadian history. On February 5th, 1981, police arrested hundreds of men at gay bathhouses in the city, brutalizing them and causing thousands of dollars in property damages. The city erupted immediately in protest and a new LGBTQ movement was born with it. I spoke with Brent and ask...
From the Bathhouse Raids to Black Lives Matter: 40 Years Since Brent Hawkes' Hunger Strike
February 15, 2021 15:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBToday is a special bonus episode to commemorate and contextualize the 40 years since Brent Hawkes' went on a 25-day hunger strike in protest of the Bathhouse Raids, which was the second largest mass arrest in Canadian history. On February 5th, 1981, police arrested hundreds of men at gay bathhouses in the city, brutalizing them and causing thousands of dollars in property damages. The city erupted immediately in protest and a new LGBTQ movement was born with it. I spoke with Brent and ask...
Putting Queer Seniors to the Front and Fighting Ford's Sanction of Religious-Based Homophobia with MPP Jill Andrew
February 09, 2021 05:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBToday, on the podcast we have the great honour of hearing from Dr. Jill Andrew, the MPP from Toronto-St Paul’s, and in this episode she describes her fight against the profit model in long term care homes, the issues facing queer seniors, and opposing the homophobia and transphobia that so housed within the Ford government. We spoke about the Ontario Senior Pride Network's submission to the long-term care commission. Read more about it here: http://cloud2.snappages.com/dc2e80b91489071f85f2...
Putting Queer Seniors to the Front and Fighting Ford's Sanction of Religious-Based Homophobia with MPP Jill Andrew
February 09, 2021 05:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBToday, on the podcast we have the great honour of hearing from Dr. Jill Andrew, the MPP from Toronto-St Paul’s, and in this episode she describes her fight against the profit model in long term care homes, the issues facing queer seniors, and opposing the homophobia and transphobia that so housed within the Ford government. We spoke about the Ontario Senior Pride Network's submission to the long-term care commission. Read more about it here: http://cloud2.snappages.com/dc2e80b91489071f85f2...
Season Two Trailer: Queer Histories and Futures
February 02, 2021 05:00 - 1 minute - 1.22 MBQueer Devotions is back for Season Two. I’m Brigitte Pawliw-Fry, your host and a Rainbow Faith and Freedom researcher focused on where faith-based homophobia and transphobia manifest in Canada. Queer Devotions seeks to uncover those stories in new ways, help us conceptualize queerness and spirituality as places of transformative justice and point to activists, scholars and community members doing this work. Part of season two is looking back, exploring our most popular episodes and also ...
Season Two Trailer: Queer Histories and Futures
February 02, 2021 05:00 - 1 minute - 1.22 MBQueer Devotions is back for Season Two. I’m Brigitte Pawliw-Fry, your host and a Rainbow Faith and Freedom researcher focused on where faith-based homophobia and transphobia manifest in Canada. Queer Devotions seeks to uncover those stories in new ways, help us conceptualize queerness and spirituality as places of transformative justice and point to activists, scholars and community members doing this work. Part of season two is looking back, exploring our most popular episodes and also ...
Reconnecting Communities of Faith Land Acknowledgement
November 29, 2020 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.24 MBFor each day of programming of Faith in Crisis, we seek to acknowledge the first peoples who have inhabited and cared for the land we now call Canada, and the ongoing existence and struggle for reconciliation and justice. These acknowledgements are limited in their ability to address even a small part of centuries long history of genocide, land theft and institutionalized racism. We hope to use these recordings to provide opportunity for more learning and reflection, as well as calling part...
Reconnecting Communities of Faith Land Acknowledgement
November 29, 2020 17:00 - 1 minute - 1.24 MBFor each day of programming of Faith in Crisis, we seek to acknowledge the first peoples who have inhabited and cared for the land we now call Canada, and the ongoing existence and struggle for reconciliation and justice. These acknowledgements are limited in their ability to address even a small part of centuries long history of genocide, land theft and institutionalized racism. We hope to use these recordings to provide opportunity for more learning and reflection, as well as calling part...
Coming Out as Trans in Orthodox Judaism and Advocating for Queer Seniors with Shoshana Pellman
November 29, 2020 05:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MBWarning for listeners: this podcast contains descriptions of anti-Semitism, transphobia and the Holocaust. Fierce advocate Shoshana Pellman joins Queer Devotions to discuss her experiences with being a Jewish trans woman, and her process of becoming the advocate she is today. A member of the Senior Pride Network, she works on issues facing queer seniors, in particular in healthcare facilities and Jewish institutions. Read more about Shoshana here and listen to her on Out in the Open: https...
Coming Out as Trans in Orthodox Judaism and Advocating for Queer Seniors with Shoshana Pellman
November 29, 2020 05:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MBWarning for listeners: this podcast contains descriptions of anti-Semitism, transphobia and the Holocaust. Fierce advocate Shoshana Pellman joins Queer Devotions to discuss her experiences with being a Jewish trans woman, and her process of becoming the advocate she is today. A member of the Senior Pride Network, she works on issues facing queer seniors, in particular in healthcare facilities and Jewish institutions. Read more about Shoshana here and listen to her on Out in the Open: https...
Mental Health Day Land Acknowledgement with Josie Spalla
November 28, 2020 14:00 - 4 minutes - 3.01 MBThis petition can be signed to help bring attention to the lack of rights given to Mi’kmaw fisheries in Nova Scotia: https://www.change.org/p/justin-trudeau-help-nova-scotia-natives-keep-their-right-to-fish For more information on the conflict in Nova Scotia: https://globalnews.ca/news/7403001/nova-scotia-lobster-explained/ This website outlines all the ways you can help the Mi’kmaq, as well as lists important articles, activists, and petitions: https://whoacanada.wordpress.com/2020/10/1...
Mental Health Day Land Acknowledgement with Josie Spalla
November 28, 2020 14:00 - 4 minutes - 3.01 MBThis petition can be signed to help bring attention to the lack of rights given to Mi’kmaw fisheries in Nova Scotia: https://www.change.org/p/justin-trudeau-help-nova-scotia-natives-keep-their-right-to-fish For more information on the conflict in Nova Scotia: https://globalnews.ca/news/7403001/nova-scotia-lobster-explained/ This website outlines all the ways you can help the Mi’kmaq, as well as lists important articles, activists, and petitions: https://whoacanada.wordpress.com/2020/10/1...
Drag Healing: Coming Out and Coming Into Authentic Performance with Brian Cope
November 28, 2020 05:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBBrigitte speaks with performer, Brian Cope, who began his career as a cast member in the Youth Elders Project and currently stars in Drag Heals. Performing in burlesque shows and a wide variety of theatre projects, Brian’s work explores intergenerational connection, authenticity, and the resilient human spirit. In their conversation, Brian describes the challenges of his early life, and how the process of coming out enabled him to share his light with others, live true to his values, and ser...
Drag Healing: Coming Out and Coming Into Authentic Performance with Brian Cope
November 28, 2020 05:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBBrigitte speaks with performer, Brian Cope, who began his career as a cast member in the Youth Elders Project and currently stars in Drag Heals. Performing in burlesque shows and a wide variety of theatre projects, Brian’s work explores intergenerational connection, authenticity, and the resilient human spirit. In their conversation, Brian describes the challenges of his early life, and how the process of coming out enabled him to share his light with others, live true to his values, and ser...
Multi-Faith Launch Day Land Acknowledgement
November 27, 2020 05:00 - 2 minutes - 1.68 MBFor our call to action today, I want to draw our attention to Resource Movement in terms of the reparations we can be committed to. Those of us who are here as white settlers have stolen wealth, and it is our duty to make reparations for that wealth. How are you supporting mutual aid funds for Indigenous communities? How are you using your wealth - whether that be social capital or financial capital - to decenter your voice and put material benefits towards folks on the ground? I am asking t...
Decolonizing Gender with Hazim Ismail
November 27, 2020 05:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MBQueer, nonbinary and Muslim anthropologist Hazim Ismail brings to Queer Devotions a wealth of knowledge on the long history of gender fluidity and colonialism’s role in imposing strict and violent definitions. In a deeply informative conversation, Brigitte speaks with Hazim about how misconceptions of the incompatibility with queerness and religion, their early teachings about gender in a Muslim context, and so much more.
Decolonizing Gender with Hazim Ismail
November 27, 2020 05:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MBQueer, nonbinary and Muslim anthropologist Hazim Ismail brings to Queer Devotions a wealth of knowledge on the long history of gender fluidity and colonialism’s role in imposing strict and violent definitions. In a deeply informative conversation, Brigitte speaks with Hazim about how misconceptions of the incompatibility with queerness and religion, their early teachings about gender in a Muslim context, and so much more.
Multi-Faith Launch Day Land Acknowledgement
November 27, 2020 05:00 - 2 minutes - 1.68 MBFor our call to action today, I want to draw our attention to Resource Movement in terms of the reparations we can be committed to. Those of us who are here as white settlers have stolen wealth, and it is our duty to make reparations for that wealth. How are you supporting mutual aid funds for Indigenous communities? How are you using your wealth - whether that be social capital or financial capital - to decenter your voice and put material benefits towards folks on the ground? I am asking t...
Catholics in Recovery with leZlie lee kam and Lila Pine
November 26, 2020 05:00 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MBIn this episode, Brigitte speaks with facilitator and storyteller, leZlie lee kam, and academic and artist, Lila Pine, two elders and dear friends who came to know each other through a performance in the Youth Elders Project at Buddies in Bad Times in Toronto. Describing their shared experiences of being schooled in Catholic institutions and the violent colonialism enacted upon both of their communities, leZlie and Lila reflect on their dual processes of reclaiming spirituality and rejecting...
Seniors Day Land Acknowledgement with leZlie lee kam
November 26, 2020 05:00 - 1 minute - 1.04 MBOn our Seniors Day land acknowledgement, leZlie lee kam speaks to the land that is now to referred to as Toronto and Ontario. "I am a world majority, brown, trini, Carib, Indo, Chinese, callaloo, differently-abled, queer DYKE elder/senior...67 years young.. I live my life from an anti-oppression, anti-racism, anti-colonial, intersectional and inter-generational perspective..I advocate for 2 Spirit, Indigenous, black and brown queer and transgender people AND Queer Seniors.. I enjoy doubles...
Seniors Day Land Acknowledgement with leZlie lee kam
November 26, 2020 05:00 - 1 minute - 1.04 MBOn our Seniors Day land acknowledgement, leZlie lee kam speaks to the land that is now to referred to as Toronto and Ontario. "I am a world majority, brown, trini, Carib, Indo, Chinese, callaloo, differently-abled, queer DYKE elder/senior...67 years young.. I live my life from an anti-oppression, anti-racism, anti-colonial, intersectional and inter-generational perspective..I advocate for 2 Spirit, Indigenous, black and brown queer and transgender people AND Queer Seniors.. I enjoy doubles...
Catholics in Recovery with leZlie lee kam and Lila Pine
November 26, 2020 05:00 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MBIn this episode, Brigitte speaks with facilitator and storyteller, leZlie lee kam, and academic and artist, Lila Pine, two elders and dear friends who came to know each other through a performance in the Youth Elders Project at Buddies in Bad Times in Toronto. Describing their shared experiences of being schooled in Catholic institutions and the violent colonialism enacted upon both of their communities, leZlie and Lila reflect on their dual processes of reclaiming spirituality and rejecting...
Youth Day Land Acknowledgement with Diana Probivaniets
November 25, 2020 05:00 - 5 minutes - 3.99 MBWarning to listeners: this podcast includes description of suicide and racism. On our Youth Day land acknowledgement, Diana Pobivanets, an RFF Researcher, speaks to the land that is now to referred to as Alberta and Saskatchewan. 1. Article - https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/07/04/news/walk-pile-bones 2. Saskatchewan Aboriginal Women's Circle Corporation (SAWCC) - https://sawcc-nwac.ca/ 3. Manitoba Moon Voices - https://www.manitobamoonvoices.com/ 4. Two- Spirited People of Manit...
Queering the Talk: Queer Pedagogies with Hannah Maitland
November 25, 2020 05:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBHow do we hold conversations about what it means to be both LGBTQ2S+ and religious or spiritual? How do we learn to frame discussions of gender, sexuality and faith in effective ways? Brigitte interviews Hannah Maitland, a PhD student at York University, who has led a successful series on queer pedagogies with her colleagues, identifying key tools to bring into your next discussion. Haven't yet registered yet? Go to this link and get your free ticket: https://rff.salsalabs.org/faithincrisis...
Queering the Talk: Queer Pedagogies with Hannah Maitland
November 25, 2020 05:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBHow do we hold conversations about what it means to be both LGBTQ2S+ and religious or spiritual? How do we learn to frame discussions of gender, sexuality and faith in effective ways? Brigitte interviews Hannah Maitland, a PhD student at York University, who has led a successful series on queer pedagogies with her colleagues, identifying key tools to bring into your next discussion. Haven't yet registered yet? Go to this link and get your free ticket: https://rff.salsalabs.org/faithincrisis...
Youth Day Land Acknowledgement with Diana Pobivanets
November 25, 2020 05:00 - 5 minutes - 3.99 MBWarning to listeners: this podcast includes description of suicide and racism. On our Youth Day land acknowledgement, Diana Pobivanets, an RFF Researcher, speaks to the land that is now to referred to as Alberta and Saskatchewan. 1. Article - https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/07/04/news/walk-pile-bones 2. Saskatchewan Aboriginal Women's Circle Corporation (SAWCC) - https://sawcc-nwac.ca/ 3. Manitoba Moon Voices - https://www.manitobamoonvoices.com/ 4. Two- Spirited People of Manit...