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Entries by Alixandria Thomason

“The Book of Saris” community art project to encourage conversation between transgender, religious communities

Saris – from an unused root meaning to castrate; a eunuch; by implication, valet (especially of the female apartments), thus, a minister of state: chamberlain, eunuch, officer. On August 10, the First Unitarian Church in Louisville will temporarily become a transformative community art project that will encourage intentional conversation between the trans community and religious […]

Queer history recovered: ‘The Lexington Six: Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America’ by Josephine Donovan

By Alixandria Thomason, author of Reading (the) Rainbow: The Lexington Six is the story of six queer people in the 1970s standing up for each other and for LGBTQIA+ community. But more than that it is a cultural examination of the time–a time when homosexuality was criminalized, and when queer peoples’ lives were regularly disrupted […]

Discovering courage, hope in queer nerd culture

image source: ash-murdocks-art.tumblr.com I can still remember with frightening accuracy staying up well into the hours of the morning as a closeted teenager to watch Inara bring a woman to her bed aboard the spaceship Serenity, or Tara sing to her fellow witch the not-at-all subtle lyrics of being “lost in ecstasy, spread beneath my […]

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