Resurrecting, Rejuvenating, and Forging New BIPOC Trans-spiritual Identities

This project features six interviews with BIPOC trans-spiritual leaders. Previous sections and the timeline below are efforts to historically contextualize their lives, their challenges, and their heroic roles as BIPOC trans-spiritual leaders.

BIPOC trans-spiritual leaders have emerged right along with the movement for trans-rights. The leaders interviewed represent the resurrection of spiritual inclinations from the past that were suppressed by external authorities. Their spiritual journeys and philosophies sometimes are informed by sacred traditions, inner voices, and community needs. They actively work to interrogate and rejuvenate old ideas and massage them into new types of collective action while they diligently work to build new theologies and new kinds of sacred space.

They are forging new BIPOC trans-spiritual identities in the crucible of greater forces, but not just that. Their BIPOC trans-spiritual identities are also new forms of self-expression. This section of the project makes it clear that each of these BIPOC trans-spiritual leaders are on a spiritual quest, one that will take them and their constituents into uncharted territories where they boldly and faithfully are building a brave new world.