2SLGBTAI+ Understanding, Allyship & Activism Tools
Guide Books
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A Guide for Towards a Theology of 2SLGBTQAl+ lnclusion, below.
All are made in the image and likeness of God. If this is what we believe,
then trans people, like all people, reflect something of God, and not just in
the ways that they share in common with others, but also in the ways that
they are different. They remind us that God is beyond all of our categories,
even gender. In this book, Tara Soughers explores theology from the
position of atrans ally―a parent of a trans young adult as well as priest.
What does it mean about God and about humans, that there is not a strict
gender binary? How can we affirm and include what we have learned about
the permeability of boundaries to affirm those whose path does not follow
traditional cultural stereotypes, and how might the broadening help us to
understand a God who is never two for Christians, but both one and three?
What gifts does this broader understanding bring to the church?
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A Guide for Towards a Theology of 2SLGBTQAl+ lnclusion, below.
All are made in the image and likeness of God. If this is what we believe,
then trans people, like all people, reflect something of God, and not just in
the ways that they share in common with others, but also in the ways that
they are different. They remind us that God is beyond all of our categories,
even gender. In this book, Tara Soughers explores theology from the
position of atrans ally―a parent of a trans young adult as well as priest.
What does it mean about God and about humans, that there is not a strict
gender binary? How can we affirm and include what we have learned about
the permeability of boundaries to affirm those whose path does not follow
traditional cultural stereotypes, and how might the broadening help us to
understand a God who is never two for Christians, but both one and three?
What gifts does this broader understanding bring to the church?
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A guide for Native American/First Nations Allyship, below.
A sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and
resistance that reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two-Spirit
people are reclaiming their place in Native nations.
Reclaiming Two-Spirits decolonizes the history of gender and sexuality in
Native North America. It honors the generations of Indigenous people who
had the foresight to take essential aspects of their cultural life and spiritual
beliefs underground in order to save them.
Before 1492, hundreds of Indigenous communities across North America
included people who identified as neither male nor female, but both. They
went by aakíí’skassi, miati, okitcitakwe or one of hundreds of other tribally
specific identities. After European colonizers invaded Indian Country,
centuries of violence and systematic persecution followed, imperiling the
existence of people who today call themselves Two-Spirits, an umbrella term
denoting feminine and masculine qualities in one person.
Drawing on written sources, archaeological evidence, art, and oral storytelling, Reclaiming Two-Spirits spans the centuries from Spanish invasion to the present, tracing massacres and inquisitions and revealing how the authors of colonialism’s written archives used language to both denigrate and erase Two-Spirit people from history. But as Gregory Smithers shows, the colonizers failed—and Indigenous resistance is core to this story. Reclaiming Two-Spirits amplifies their voices, reconnecting their history to Native nations in the 21st century.
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A sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and
resistance that reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two-Spirit
people are reclaiming their place in Native nations.
Reclaiming Two-Spirits decolonizes the history of gender and sexuality in
Native North America. It honors the generations of Indigenous people who
had the foresight to take essential aspects of their cultural life and spiritual
beliefs underground in order to save them.
Before 1492, hundreds of Indigenous communities across North America
included people who identified as neither male nor female, but both. They
went by aakíí’skassi, miati, okitcitakwe or one of hundreds of other tribally
specific identities. After European colonizers invaded Indian Country,
centuries of violence and systematic persecution followed, imperiling the
existence of people who today call themselves Two-Spirits, an umbrella term
denoting feminine and masculine qualities in one person.
Drawing on written sources, archaeological evidence, art, and oral storytelling, Reclaiming Two-Spirits spans the centuries from Spanish invasion to the present, tracing massacres and inquisitions and revealing how the authors of colonialism’s written archives used language to both denigrate and erase Two-Spirit people from history. But as Gregory Smithers shows, the colonizers failed—and Indigenous resistance is core to this story. Reclaiming Two-Spirits amplifies their voices, reconnecting their history to Native nations in the 21st century.
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A guide for Native American/First Nations Allyship, below.
Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer. Under Pratt’s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.
In a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in There There—warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts—asking what it means to bethe children and grandchildren of massacre. Wandering Stars is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange’s monumental gifts.
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Tommy Orange Interview, NPR
Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer. Under Pratt’s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.
In a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in There There—warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts—asking what it means to bethe children and grandchildren of massacre. Wandering Stars is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange’s monumental gifts.
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Tommy Orange Interview, NPR
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A guide for identification of Women with the Earth, below.
In this famously provocative cornerstone of feminist literature, Susan Griffin explores the identification of women with the earth both as sustenance for humanity and as victim of male rage. Starting from Plato’s fateful division of the world into spirit and matter, her analysis of how patriarchal Western philosophy and religion have used language and science to bolster their power over both women and nature is brilliant and persuasive, coming alive in poetic prose.
Griffin draws on an astonishing range of sources from timbering manuals to medical texts to Scripture and classical literature in showing how destructive has been the impulse to disembody the human soul, and how the long separated might once more be rejoined. Poet Adrienne Rich calls Woman and Nature “perhaps the most extraordinary nonfiction work to have merged from the matrix of contemporary female consciousness a fusion of patriarchal science, ecology, female history and feminism, written by a poet who has created a new form for her vision… The book has the impact of a great film or a fresco; yet it is intimately personal, touching to the quick of woman’s experience.”
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A guide for The Specifically Queer Understanding of Nature, below.
In Strange Natures, Nicole Seymour investigates the ways in which contemporary queer fictions offer insight on environmental issues through their performance of a specifically queer understanding of nature, the nonhuman, and environmental degradation. By drawing upon queer theory and ecocriticism, Seymour examines how contemporary queer fictions extend their critique of "natural" categories of gender and sexuality to the nonhuman natural world, thus constructing a queer environmentalism. Seymour's thoughtful analyses of works such as Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues, Todd Haynes's Safe, and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain illustrate how homophobia, classism, racism, sexism, and xenophobia inform dominant views of the environment and help to justify its exploitation. Calling for a queer environmental ethics, she delineates the discourses that have worked to prevent such an ethics and argues for a concept of queerness that is attuned to environmentalism's urgent futurity, and an environmentalism that is attuned to queer sensibilities.
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In Strange Natures, Nicole Seymour investigates the ways in which contemporary queer fictions offer insight on environmental issues through their performance of a specifically queer understanding of nature, the nonhuman, and environmental degradation. By drawing upon queer theory and ecocriticism, Seymour examines how contemporary queer fictions extend their critique of "natural" categories of gender and sexuality to the nonhuman natural world, thus constructing a queer environmentalism. Seymour's thoughtful analyses of works such as Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues, Todd Haynes's Safe, and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain illustrate how homophobia, classism, racism, sexism, and xenophobia inform dominant views of the environment and help to justify its exploitation. Calling for a queer environmental ethics, she delineates the discourses that have worked to prevent such an ethics and argues for a concept of queerness that is attuned to environmentalism's urgent futurity, and an environmentalism that is attuned to queer sensibilities.
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A guide for Self Compassion and Strength from Within , below.
Kristin Neff, Ph.D., says that it’s time to “stop beating yourself up and leave insecurity behind.” Self-Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind offers expert advice on how to limit self-criticism and offset its negative effects, enabling you to achieve your highest potential and a more contented, fulfilled life.
More and more, psychologists are turning away from an emphasis on self-esteem and moving toward self-compassion in the treatment of their patients—and Dr. Neff’s extraordinary book offers exercises and action plans for dealing with every emotionally debilitating struggle, be it parenting, weight loss, or any of the numerous trials of everyday living.
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Kristin Neff, Ph.D., says that it’s time to “stop beating yourself up and leave insecurity behind.” Self-Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind offers expert advice on how to limit self-criticism and offset its negative effects, enabling you to achieve your highest potential and a more contented, fulfilled life.
More and more, psychologists are turning away from an emphasis on self-esteem and moving toward self-compassion in the treatment of their patients—and Dr. Neff’s extraordinary book offers exercises and action plans for dealing with every emotionally debilitating struggle, be it parenting, weight loss, or any of the numerous trials of everyday living.
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A guide for Self Compassion and Strength from Within, below.
I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition, by Lucy Sante
“Reading this book is a joy... much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a standard for those in need of guidance. ”
— The Washington Post
For a long time, Lucy Sante felt unsure of her place. Born in Belgium, the only child of conservative working-class Catholic parents who transplanted their little family to the United States, she felt at home only when she moved to New York City in the early 1970s and found her people among a band of fellow bohemians. Some would die young, to drugs and AIDS, and some would become jarringly famous. Sante flirted with both fates, on her way to building an estimable career as a writer. But she still felt like her life a performance. She was presenting a façade, even to herself. Sante’s memoir braids together two threads of personal narrative: the arc of her life, and her recent step-by-step transition to a place of inner and outer alignment. Sante brings a loving irony to her account of her unsteady first steps; there was much she found she still needed to learn about being a woman after some sixty years cloaked in a man’s identity, in a man’s world. A marvel of grace and empathy, I Heard Her Call My Name parses with great sensitivity many issues that touch our lives deeply, of gender identity and far beyond.
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A related article - A trans woman’s view on crossdressing sissies and other GNC men
You’re not us. by Sarah Bella
I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition, by Lucy Sante
“Reading this book is a joy... much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a standard for those in need of guidance. ”
— The Washington Post
For a long time, Lucy Sante felt unsure of her place. Born in Belgium, the only child of conservative working-class Catholic parents who transplanted their little family to the United States, she felt at home only when she moved to New York City in the early 1970s and found her people among a band of fellow bohemians. Some would die young, to drugs and AIDS, and some would become jarringly famous. Sante flirted with both fates, on her way to building an estimable career as a writer. But she still felt like her life a performance. She was presenting a façade, even to herself. Sante’s memoir braids together two threads of personal narrative: the arc of her life, and her recent step-by-step transition to a place of inner and outer alignment. Sante brings a loving irony to her account of her unsteady first steps; there was much she found she still needed to learn about being a woman after some sixty years cloaked in a man’s identity, in a man’s world. A marvel of grace and empathy, I Heard Her Call My Name parses with great sensitivity many issues that touch our lives deeply, of gender identity and far beyond.
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A related article - A trans woman’s view on crossdressing sissies and other GNC men
You’re not us. by Sarah Bella
2SLGBTQAI+ Issues
LGBTQ Nation is an online news magazine, reporting on issues relevant to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer community. We have a pro-LGBTQ+ point of view, but we don’t shy away from keeping a critical eye on the movement itself. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/
Youth Issues
Center for Native American Youth believes all Native American youth should lead full and healthy lives, have equal access to opportunity, and draw strength from their culture and one another. As a policy program of the Aspen Institute founded by former US Senator Byron Dorgan (ret.), we work to improve the health, safety, and overall well-being of Native American youth. We do this through youth recognition, inspiration and leadership; research, advocacy, and policy change; serving as a national resource exchange; and by building a Native-youth driven narrative.
https://www.cnay.org/remembering-our-sisters/
Empowering female & femme youth to advocate and raise awareness for the MMIWG2S+ epidemicIndigenous women, girls, trans, and two-spirit people experience violence, sexual assault, go missing, and are murdered at the highest rates of any ethnic group. This epidemic of injustice has become known as the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirits+ (MMIWG2S+) crisis. We will never forget our sisters who have been lost to this crisis. Their memories have inspired the creation of the Remembering Our Sisters Fellowship.
https://www.cnay.org/remembering-our-sisters/
Empowering female & femme youth to advocate and raise awareness for the MMIWG2S+ epidemicIndigenous women, girls, trans, and two-spirit people experience violence, sexual assault, go missing, and are murdered at the highest rates of any ethnic group. This epidemic of injustice has become known as the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirits+ (MMIWG2S+) crisis. We will never forget our sisters who have been lost to this crisis. Their memories have inspired the creation of the Remembering Our Sisters Fellowship.
Self Compassion and Strength from Within
Center for Mindful Self Compassion How Self-Compassion Transforms Queer Shame into Pride
Strength from Within Advocates Facebook Page
Strength from Within Advocates .com
“Creating the sacred space where you are allowed to be human. Welcome”-Mindy Andrade CRC, GIP, CTS
“Creating the sacred space where you are allowed to be human. Welcome”-Mindy Andrade CRC, GIP, CTS
Honoring 2SLGBTQAI+ Culture
https://www.dailygood.org/story/2595/joanna-macy-entering-the-bardo-joanna-macy/
2SLGBTQAI+ People and Women You Should Know
The Women Who Brought Us the Moon PBS
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/chasing-moon-women-who-brought-us-moon/utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_9170387&fbclid=IwAR0ZomlTqzZZ04_1irohppfE3aVp-ff1vT55hOWPPkxHdlyIkoyEQGPGCxs
CHASING THE MOON
WOMEN IN AMERICAN HISTORY
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/chasing-moon-women-who-brought-us-moon/utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_9170387&fbclid=IwAR0ZomlTqzZZ04_1irohppfE3aVp-ff1vT55hOWPPkxHdlyIkoyEQGPGCxs
CHASING THE MOON
WOMEN IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Towards a Theology of 2SLGBTQAl+ lnclusion
Episcopalian “Believe Out Loud” congregations. To fully welcome and affirm individuals of all sexual orientations and gender identities as congregations.
Towards a Theology of LGBTQ Inclusion: An Annotated Bibliography & Resource List for LGBTQ Affirming Christians (& Those Who Would Like to be) Compiled by The Rev. Antonia Anderson (Updated 2/10/24)
I began compiling this list of resources in 2019 when, after more than 30 years of living with the shame of feeling “different,” and not knowing what to do about it, other than burying it deep inside myself, I first began seriously and honestly examining my own sexuality and gender identity. It began as preparation for a six-week adult formation class on how to be an LGBTQ affirming Christian and Ally which I offered at my parish. At that time, only my wife knew that I was exploring these issues for personal reasons. To everyone else I was simply a straight, cis-gender Episcopal priest, offering a class on how to better understand and support our queer siblings in Christ.
I began compiling this list of resources in 2019 when, after more than 30 years of living with the shame of feeling “different,” and not knowing what to do about it, other than burying it deep inside myself, I first began seriously and honestly examining my own sexuality and gender identity. It began as preparation for a six-week adult formation class on how to be an LGBTQ affirming Christian and Ally which I offered at my parish. At that time, only my wife knew that I was exploring these issues for personal reasons. To everyone else I was simply a straight, cis-gender Episcopal priest, offering a class on how to better understand and support our queer siblings in Christ.
Episcipalean Education for Ministry Resource List
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Gender Unicorn
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Episcopalean Efm Event 2024 Recording The Nebraska Diocese
OUTdoors & Environmentalism
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5th LGBTQ Outdoor Summit YMCA of the Rockies November 2024
To cultivate connections, build community and inspire leaders from across the outdoor industry and beyond to create more accessible and affirming ways for the LGBTQ community to get OUTside.
To cultivate connections, build community and inspire leaders from across the outdoor industry and beyond to create more accessible and affirming ways for the LGBTQ community to get OUTside.
Diversify Outdoors a coalition of digital influencers, affinity groups, and allies promoting diversity in outdoor recreation and conservation.
https://www.instagram.com/nikkik_smith/
https://www.instagram.com/nikkik_smith/p/Cc8vcDgvZDL/?img_index=1
Camp BranchOUT - Outright Vermont
It's an exciting and new partnership between North Branch Nature Center and Outright!Welcome to Camp BranchOUT (BranchOUT), a nature-based day camp for queer and gender creative kids where they can simply be kids! It's not just any camp – it's all about creating a safe, inclusive, and fun environment for 10-12-year-old campers where they can be their most authentic selves and are embraced and celebrated for exactly who they are, all while exploring and learning about the awesome outdoors.
It's an exciting and new partnership between North Branch Nature Center and Outright!Welcome to Camp BranchOUT (BranchOUT), a nature-based day camp for queer and gender creative kids where they can simply be kids! It's not just any camp – it's all about creating a safe, inclusive, and fun environment for 10-12-year-old campers where they can be their most authentic selves and are embraced and celebrated for exactly who they are, all while exploring and learning about the awesome outdoors.
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2-Spirited People of the 1st Nations
We will continue to nurture and grow within our sacred roles and celebrate our strengths as 2-Spirit peoples to provide physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual advocacy. We support 2-Spirit peoples and First Nations, Métis, and Inuit community members who are at risk of or living with HIV, hepatitis C, and related co-infections; and we will continue to support community members who are facing the effects of historic and ongoing colonial violence so that we may thrive within our communities and nations.
We will continue to nurture and grow within our sacred roles and celebrate our strengths as 2-Spirit peoples to provide physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual advocacy. We support 2-Spirit peoples and First Nations, Métis, and Inuit community members who are at risk of or living with HIV, hepatitis C, and related co-infections; and we will continue to support community members who are facing the effects of historic and ongoing colonial violence so that we may thrive within our communities and nations.
Native American/First Nations Allyship
Identification of Women with the Earth
The Specifically Queer Understanding of Nature
Forest Bathing The essence of forest bathing is sensory immersion in the ambience of the forest. You walk slowly and notice things. You feel the touch of the breeze on your skin; you notice the sounds of the brook and the birds and the movement of trees in the wind. And you take that noticing in, give it hospitality, let it land inside you. Forest bathing is not the same thing as hiking. The destination in forest bathing is “here,” not “there.” The pace is slow, not fast. The focus is on connection and relationship.
2SLGBTQAI+ Health
Art and Music
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Reparation and Reconciliation
Realizing Reparations An exclusive digital series exploring the leading edges of the reparations ecosystem—and revealing a path toward healing and reconciliation. yes! Magazine Solutions Journalism
The (Identity) Politics of Reparations Can “reparationist” be a distinct identity, akin to feminist or abolitionist, a label worn with pride by progressives who believe in reparative compensation for Black people?
How Pop Culture Shapes Reparations As the movement for reparations gains steam, mainstream and independent content creators continue to find new ways to advance the idea of reparative damages for Black people on screen.
Spaces As Reparations for Black Youth Investing in programs, resources, and physical spaces by and for Black youth is critical to narrowing generationally inherited disparities in wealth, health, and beyond. TORIE WEISTON-SERDAN | FEB 27, 2024
Realizing Reparations An exclusive digital series exploring the leading edges of the reparations ecosystem—and revealing a path toward healing and reconciliation.
Movement to return land taken from Black and Indigenous people in the U.S. gains momentum
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Resources
GLAAD Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation the world’s largest Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization – increases media accountability and community engagement that ensures authentic LGBTQ stories are seen, heard, and actualized.
Transgender GLAAD Crisis Resources . Organizations . Transgender Programs at LGBT Organizations .
The 2015 U.S. Trans Survey is the largest survey of transgender people ever conducted. The data has also been broken down by race, ethnicity, and geography. The survey’s results detail the extent of the poverty, discrimination, and violence faced by transgender people. The results are also available in Spanish.
Transgender Lives: Your Stories is an interactive campaign created by The New York Times to allow transgender people to tell their own stories in their own words.
Transgender FAQs
GLAAD's Work on Transgender Issues
Tips for Allies
The 2015 U.S. Trans Survey is the largest survey of transgender people ever conducted. The data has also been broken down by race, ethnicity, and geography. The survey’s results detail the extent of the poverty, discrimination, and violence faced by transgender people. The results are also available in Spanish.
Transgender Lives: Your Stories is an interactive campaign created by The New York Times to allow transgender people to tell their own stories in their own words.
Transgender FAQs
GLAAD's Work on Transgender Issues
Tips for Allies
Notes
Task force in CO addresses rac reconc, indigenous, lgbtq
My Story to Self-Acceptance as a Sissy: Insights and Lessons for Personal Growth
https://medium.com/@kathiking/my-story-to-self-acceptance-as-a-sissy-insights-and-lessons-for-personal-growth-b4a49b29fe64
https://medium.com/@kathiking/my-story-to-self-acceptance-as-a-sissy-insights-and-lessons-for-personal-growth-b4a49b29fe64