Queer & A Season 1 Wrap Up and Recap

There are a few points that became more clear or more profound for me throughout my time on this series, and I wanted to start by recapping them here, and then we'll return to some takeaways from our guests.

This episode reviews 5 key points I’ve learned throughout this series, and then gives the mic back to our series one guests.

We hear from each of our guests, hearing about what messages they would give to people who weaponize religious against queer individuals, and also to queer folx who have felt religion being weaponized against them.

Here’s the guests we (re)hear from to wrap up this series:

1. Introduction to Queer & A podcast project, with Nadya Pohran

2. "Spiritual Community for Queer Christians?", with Mike Maeshiro

3. "Purity Culture, Religious Trauma, and LGBTQ+ Healing", with Sandra Noble

4. "LGBTQ+ Activism: Drag Queen and Eastern Orthodox Christian Theologian", with Nik Jovčić-Sas.

5. "LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers", with Stéfanie Lacroix

6. "LGBTQIA+ Healing from the Church?", with Charley Bouchard

7. "LGBTQIA+ Youth in Schools", with Mackenzie Kolton

8. "Psychedelic therapies, religion, and LGBTQ+ wisdom", with Amy Bartlett

9. T"he Queer Interfaith Coalition: Faith-based love and acceptance of 2SLGBTQIA+ folx", with Rabbi Naj and Pam Rocker

10. "Queerness in Ancient Christianity: exploring concepts of gender transgression, sexuality vs purity, and heteronormativity", with Lydia Schriemer and Phoebe Hancock

Next, we share exciting news about two expect for Series 2 — Queer & A is launching its virtual artist residency, and we get to hear from artists who are creating art on the topic of queerness and spirituality. So excited for this!

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The instrumental of the song “Bones” by OKNaledi is used with permission. Check out the full version here.