Queer Devotion

This class is offered through Seagrape Apothecary. Register through Seagrape Apothecary here.

A spiritual practice can be an intensely powerful and affirming thing, but for many LGBTQIA2S+ individuals, it is instead a frustrating and alienating one. When religious institutions don’t want us and modern alternative spiritualities repeat the same tired gender essentialist norms, where do we turn for a vibrant and deeply felt spiritual practice that includes and celebrates us?

We do what queers have always done with community and culture: we build our own.

In this 2.5-hour class, we will explore how to create an affirming, inspirational, and supportive devotional practice that uplifts us in our queer entirety. We will:

• Connect to the divine queer in existing gods, goddesses, and goddexes of history, in our revered transcestors and ancestors of our queer lineage, and in ourselves

• Queer the idea of deity by looking to figures of folklore, myth, and…