2 20 72 https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/e216fdaf95de0aa0af65a6c512a29c96.jpeg 1e385d405e3626749a602dc8bb6dfbbd https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/8607bad8cf9e5cec03c73b81187585a4.jpeg 587ac2c603b95b0d438d869335a9e2f9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Podcasts from WMPG.org and 90.9 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Samaa Abdurraqib Subject The topic of the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Samaa Abdurraqib, an African American Muslim feminist, was born in New York, grew up in Ohio, and earned her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Samaa came to Maine in 2010 as an assistant professor at Bowdoin College. Currently, she’s the Community Engagement Coordinator for the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence. In that role, she shares information with immigrants and others regarding the programs and resources available to people experiencing intimate partner violence. She also serves as the Executive Director of the Maine Humanities Council. Samaa’s writings and public talks include these titles: “On Being Black and Muslim: Eclipsed Identities in the Classroom,” 'I Speak for Myself: American Women on Being Muslim,' “The Sacred and the Sexual,” and “My Faith, My Feminism: How Islam Has Shaped My Activism.” Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Marvin Ellison and Tamara Torres-McGovern Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Samaa Abdurraqib https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/0a3bf8899d719286565f9ef580ba4b18.png 851d31e3301eaa2030a2995453b41a29 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Podcasts from WMPG.org and 90.9 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sage Hayes Subject The topic of the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Sage Hayes, who uses she, he and they pronouns, is a white bodied practitioner of somatic alchemy. They are dedicated to working towards collective healing and liberation. Sage grew up and is currently living on unceded territories of the Wampanoag / Narragansett native peoples. Sage is supported by Italian / Swedish / German / Scottish lineages of birth and adopted families. Sage is a lead teaching assistant with the Somatic Experiencing Institute and integrates biodynamic craniosacral therapy, systemic constellations, dance, intuitive practices, and somatics. An educator, a community organizer, and a healing arts practitioner, Sage is inspired to midwife nervous system supremacy into evolutionary and collective embodied practices of nourishment, connectivity, rest and liberation which serve the all/the we. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Marvin Ellison and Tamara Torres-McGovern Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sage Hayes https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/5d59d46307ba90cfced2ba2dfd06e6f6.png c589aa7bd39f6a33f29b242b242f11f4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Podcasts from WMPG.org and 90.9 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard Waitzkin Subject The topic of the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Richard Waitzkin is a psychotherapist and one of the founders of Portland’s new and terribly exciting Equality Community Center, which houses organizations serving the LBGTQ+ community, including Equality Maine, Maine TransNet, GLSEN, and SAGE Maine, as well as allied organizations, such as the Maine Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, and Tribal Populations, the Maine Jewish Film Festival, Democracy Maine, and the Cambodian Community Association of Maine. A native of Ohio, Rich as a young adult served as a VISTA volunteer and teacher’s aide in California before moving east. In Massachusetts, he received two masters degrees, one in education and the other in social work. After moving to Maine, he worked on the frontlines in the early days of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, sat on the Governor’s commission on AIDS, attended the first regional training to provide HIV counseling and testing, volunteered as an AIDS buddy, and contributed to Maine’s first AIDS hospice facility. About his work as a psychotherapist, Rich writes, “As our lives unfold, we’re challenged mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. Psychotherapy can provide a safe environment to focus on the growth and healing required of us to become the best we can be in all roles and aspects of our life. Over these many years in practice, I've found the work of healing, growth, and personal transformation to be a sacred process.” Rich lives in Portland, loves to work in his yard and on his old house, and dances in both public and private. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Marvin Ellison and Tamara Torres-McGovern Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Richard Waitzkin https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/6fba9490668678349c80069c06091654.png d9ece833096026fbc41cab9e68c50a1e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Podcasts from WMPG.org and 90.9 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rabbi Rachel Isaacs Subject The topic of the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource In 2014, a magazine ran a feature story with this intriguing title: “Fifteen American Rabbis You Haven’t Heard of, But Should.” Rabbi Rachel Isaacs is one of those unsung – or formerly unsung – fifteen. Happily, those of us in Maine know her and appreciate her ministry. Rabbi Isaacs is the spiritual leader of Beth Israel Congregation in Waterville and also faculty at Colby College, where she holds the Dorothy Levine Alfond chair in Jewish studies. Since 2015 she has also served as the director of Colby’s Center for Small Town Jewish Life. Yet another article, entitled “What a Quiet Revolutionary Looks Like,” describes some of her life journey this way: “Rachel Isaacs knew by the age of 13 she wanted to be a rabbi. Awareness of her sexuality came later. ‘I came out to myself around 14,’ she has shared. ‘I started the Gay-Straight Alliance in high school.’ At college, ‘being gay was in no way noteworthy. Openly lesbian, . . . she was ready [to go on to] rabbinical school, [but] Conservative Judaism was not ready for her. Isaacs spent two years at Reform Judaism’s Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of religion and transferred to the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York as soon as the school admitted openly gay and lesbian rabbinical students in 2007.” She was ordained by JTS in 2011. Currently, Rachel lives in Waterville with her wife Melanie Weiss and their two daughters. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Marvin Ellison and Tamara Torres-McGovern Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rabbi Rachel Isaacs https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/49feb573fa07d76b1662b0d1770e3c19.png 150d267d535cbc7d9655baf9191ea679 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Podcasts from WMPG.org and 90.9 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rabbi Jared Saks Subject The topic of the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Rabbi Jared Saks, a New Jersey native, is the spiritual leader of Congregation Bet Ha’am in South Portland, the largest reform congregation in northern New England, where he has served since 2011. He lives in South Portland with his husband Kirk and their young son. The Reform movement in Judaism has been an open and accepting place for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people for many years. That message of acceptance is inspired by core Jewish values and “really goes back to our narrative as people,” Saks has explained. “Thirty-six times in Torah, more often than any other commandment, we’re advised to care for the widow, the orphan and the stranger, which are the Bible’s metaphors for the weakest members of our society, the people that are on the fringes.” The message is, “Make sure you don’t leave other people there, that you watch out for people on the fringe.’” “Part of my responsibility as a Rabbi,” Saks has pointed out, “is to help inspire my congregation and the Jewish community to fix the world in which we live.” Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Marvin Ellison and Tamara Torres-McGovern Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rabbi Jared Saks https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/026cdb53c9d01a6356d2acee7d58ee93.png 7f2299d122f950b199e4759586470956 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Podcasts from WMPG.org and 90.9 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ophelia Hu Kinney Subject The topic of the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Ophelia Hu Kinney (she/her/hers) is the wife of a fearless reformer, the daughter of loving immigrants, and the sister of a hopeful romantic. She is the Director of Communications at Reconciling Ministries Network, an organization advancing LGBTQ justice and inclusion in The United Methodist Church. She is also the Worship Coordinator at HopeGateWay in Portland. She describes herself as a garden-variety queer woman who lives with her wife in Scarborough. She blogs about leaving evangelicalism for the Christian wilderness at QueeringTheKindom.com. And because Tamara and Ophelia are Facebook buddies, Tamara is ready to brag about her friend and mention that Ophelia recently won NYC Midnight’s 100-word Microfiction Challenge with her story “Honeysuckle.” It’s a thoughtful and emotionally rich story -- which perhaps tells you something about Ophelia herself. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Marvin Ellison and Tamara Torres-McGovern Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Ophelia Hu Kinney https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/9876094bec35e7f37dc2d92efffb7e87.png 76994d149c0039328c528dcb101a146c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Podcasts from WMPG.org and 90.9 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Myke Johnson Subject The topic of the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Myke Johnson, author of 'Finding Our Way Home: A Spiritual Journey into Earth Community,' describes herself as a lesbian mystic, earth activist, and retired Unitarian Universalist minister. Myke lives in Portland Maine with her partner Margy and two cats. She blogs at https://findingourwayhome.blog. Almost two years ago, back in April 2020, Myke wrote this: “I wake in the night with pain in my heart for all that is happening in our country, and I feel utterly powerless. I’ve been an activist most of my life, and I believed and hoped that activism might help to change the world for the better. In some ways, it has. But the dream -- of a whole society rooted in cooperation and mutuality, in care for all of its people -- feels lost in a nightmare of empire that’s re-emerging like a multi-headed dragon from the flames of disaster.” Then, Myke, you posed two questions: “How can we respond to a reign of terror? How can we respond to cruelty after cruelty promulgated by people in power?” And then, at the close of this blog entry, writing as the mystic-activist that you are, you offered this prayer: “O, Holy one, you who are with us in the midst of our powerlessness, help us to let go of what we cannot control. Help us to shift our focus to what is possible, to what really matters. Bless those . . . who are risking their lives right now to look after the sick, to bring food to the hungry. Help us to seek your presence among those considered the ‘least’ among us.” A kindred spirit, feminist mystic and social activist Elly Haney, put it similarly: It all boils down to vision and struggle. In the best of days and the worst of days, hold onto the vision, and stay in the struggle. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Marvin Ellison and Tamara Torres-McGovern Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Myke Johnson https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/35279621e4b8ecc19c7b30de7bdc1444.png 42b5573312d781b788dac1f8c859a198 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Podcasts from WMPG.org and 90.9 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Marpheen Chann Subject The topic of the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Marpheen Chann is a Portland-based thinker, writer, educator, and speaker on social justice, equity, and inclusion. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Southern Maine and a law degree from the University of Maine School of Law. Currently, he’s on staff at Maine’s Holocaust and Human Rights Center. He also serves as co-president of the Cambodian Community Association of Maine. Marpheen has an intriguing personal journey as a gay man and first-generation Asian American, who was born in California to a Cambodian refugee family and later adopted by an evangelical, white working-class family in Maine. He uses a mix of storytelling and humor to help people view topics such as racism, xenophobia, and homophobia through an intersectional lens. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Marvin Ellison and Tamara Torres-McGovern Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Marpheen Chann https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/e7804f3f7895528b830240910fc4fb20.png a14d313f3665fa39530ab4ad6e5cf553 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Podcasts from WMPG.org and 90.9 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rev. Dr. Lynn Bujnak Subject The topic of the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Rev. Dr. Lynn Bujnak is an ordained United Church of Christ pastor who currently serves as the Vermont Conference Minister serving UCC congregations throughout the Green Mountain state. Before her move to Vermont with her wife Peg, Lynn served several congregations in Maine and continues to spend time in Vacationland whenever she can, bringing along her kayak and looking out for opportunities for fly fishing. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Marvin Ellison and Tamara Torres-McGovern Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rev. Dr. Lynn Bujnak https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/18a439848d08460ae395a2cac40c9adc.png d17631d3ab7d3974fbecfd65353e13eb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Podcasts from WMPG.org and 90.9 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rev. Kit Wang Subject The topic of the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Rev. Kit Wang is an Episcopal priest in Maine. Kit identifies as a queer, trans, Chinese-American child of God. Kit moved to New England for college, and never left, attending Yale Divinity School and eventually moving to Maine in 2004. Kit serves on the Commission on Ministry, supporting others in their call to Ministry, is part of the Leadership Team for Arise Portland (an emergent, queer affirming inter-spiritual community in Maine) and works in a brewery—not quite water into wine but certainly the journey from hops to beer is its own kind of sacred. Kit is passionate about gender justice, about expansive hospitality in the church, especially in worship, and about children, youth, and LGBTQ folks. Kit is also passionate about raising ducks, canoeing, knitting, and craft beer. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Marvin Ellison and Tamara Torres-McGovern Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rev. Kit Wang https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/b5b68c5acc3d72f17ed44a82ff1edb74.png af8913f3014d068a900a221ddc2a3f7a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Podcasts from WMPG.org and 90.9 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rev. Jennifer Paty Subject The topic of the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Rev. Jennifer Paty is the Director of Pilgrim Lodge Camp and Retreat Center, an outdoors ministry of the Maine Conference of the United Church of Christ. The team that hired her said this of her: “Jen’s strong leadership, excellent ministry and social justice experience, steadfast work ethic, and contagious enthusiasm are just a few of the attributes” that won us over. “She brings a wealth of knowledge from overseeing the recreation programs and family services of large US military installations, both here in the United States and overseas.” Jen served twenty years in the U.S. Navy, is active in Veterans for Peace, has been a pastor and educator, a street minister for the homeless, and all along a human rights activist, including her work with other service members to repeal “Don’t ask Don’t Tell.” Ordained in the Metropolitan Community Church, she served that denomination for a dozen years, including several years in Canada. With her life-partner Amy Blake, Jen also operates a counseling practice utilizing the Imago model of relationship transformation. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Marvin Ellison and Tamara Torres-McGovern Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rev. Jennifer Paty https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/4ebb1c97e1d4429d5f66012d86b2aa58.png 7ed049edab167f44989095cb1d71993e https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/5c1576c0b1f563147035f3185fdcd405.JPG 2671dff49a36d5ebdb353b1f3277b1cb https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/a00ec6d33bb7d8971afeda0689d5ef63.jpg f9020bfadaff6717f4f8cf4ef8d5bca3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Podcasts from WMPG.org and 90.9 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Howard Solomon's acrylic and paper collage on canvas. Subject The topic of the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource "If Not for Others, What Am I?" is 8" x 6", acrylic and paper collage on canvas by Howard Solomon. Solomon created it in 2018, along with two other pieces of the same dimensions and mediums, "If Not for Myself, Who Will Be for Me?" and "And If Not Now, When?" The three titles come from Rabbi Hillel's three questions, or admonitions: get yourself in order, align with others, act. For Howard Solomon, these are the distillation of Jewish ethics. They also parallel the principles which animate Solomon's taichi practice: get my breath and balance in order, become mindful of the space I'm in, begin. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived by Howard Solomon Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Marvin Ellison and Tamara Torres-McGovern https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/205f94fdead6277c948b8f209f36d4d4.png e7c4e9397ff5192e0224ddcab3c9cb02 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Podcasts from WMPG.org and 90.9 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Howard Solomon Subject The topic of the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Howard Solomon is an academic historian and community activist who, in an earlier life, served for over 30 years on the faculty of Tufts University and taught courses on European history, the history of sexuality, and the history of stereotyping. Howard has also been a scholar in residence at the Sampson Center for Diversity at the University of Southern Maine. Among other projects, he curated a traveling exhibition about Charlie Howard, the young gay man who was murdered in the early 1980’s in Bangor by three high-school boys, entitled “Twenty Years Later: How Far Has Maine Come?” He’s also spoken throughout Maine on antisemitism and continued to write, including an essay about the creation of Portland as a so-called “gay mecca.” Over the years Howard’s community engagements have included Merrymeeting Arts Center, the Maine Task Force on LGBT Youth, Maine Jewish Film Festival, Maine Initiatives, the Matlovitch Society, and the National Coalition Building Institute. In 2007 Equality Maine recognized Howard for being the remarkable queer treasure that he is by giving him a lifetime achievement award, which might give some folks the impression that Howard has slowed down or even entered his dotage. Not so, because Howard keeps shifting gears and in recent years has been devoting more time and energy to producing art, especially collage and found-object sculpture. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Marvin Ellison and Tamara Torres-McGovern Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Howard Solomon https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/eb736fdb1790eca8ff6d4f221df36593.png 8be3baa3e5838c41a37acb4675f4474c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Podcasts from WMPG.org and 90.9 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gail Hovey Subject The topic of the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Originally from Illinois, Gail Hovey is an editor, writer, and a longtime friend of Marvin Ellison ever since she edited an early publication of his back in the day. Like Tamara Torres-McGovern and Marvin, Gail is a seminary graduate. All three of have degrees from Union Theological Seminary in New York. More recently, Gail has earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine’s prestigious Stone Coast program. Gail is also an activist for racial, economic, and social justice, a set of commitments which she traces back to East Harlem in the 1960s and which were further deepened by her time living in southern Africa. Reflecting on these matters, Gail has co-edited a book entitled 'No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists Over a Half Century, 1950-2000.' We could easily have an extended conversation with Gail about the Pan-African justice movements and her activism as a white ally in southern Africa and back in the U.S., but today we’re talking about her more recent publication, a memoir entitled 'She Said God Blessed Us: A Life Marked by Childhood Sexual Abuse in the Church.' One reviewer describes your memoir, Gail, this way: “This book is a gift. . . written with compassion, righteous anger, and deep insight about the turmoil that abuse generates and about the courage and tenacity required to disarm a debilitating curse and claim an authentic blessing.” Gail Hovey -- writer, editor, activist, and, yes, gutsy abuse survivor – welcome to Queer Spirit. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Marvin Ellison and Tamara Torres-McGovern Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Gail Hovey https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/ade6e8d429081ede0fa99d517c21fcb2.png 1d6371f05239a605e7dbfcb1a5f8384d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Podcasts from WMPG.org and 90.9 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Effie McAvoy Subject The topic of the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Effie McAvoy’s Twitter handle is “The Reverend with Rage: ‘Proud and Out’ Jesus Follower, Wife, Mother, Pastor, Police Chaplain – working for the transformation of the world, one soul at a time.” A California native, Effie moved to North Carolina in the mid-80s. After completing her academic studies in North Carolina and then later in Boston, she was ordained as a United Methodist minister in 1999. For more than 20 years, she’s served churches in North Carolina and more recently in Oakland and York, Maine, before her bishop moved her this summer to serve a church in Hope, Rhode Island. That’s so Rhode Island’s gain and Maine’s loss! Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Marvin Ellison and Tamara Torres-McGovern Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Effie McAvoy https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/e93662cdf65ac3c729f6b40e1d26d9b6.png 67104c084e7fedf8cda0b8f464247526 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Podcasts from WMPG.org and 90.9 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Chris Davis Subject The topic of the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Chris Davis grew up in Bangor and is a relatively recent arrival in Portland. She attends college as an adult learner and works part-time while also parenting two young adults from a distance, one of whom identifies as transgender. In recent years Chris has been engaged in her own coming out: coming out as lesbian, coming out from a heterosexual marriage, and coming out from membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Mormons. And if that wasn’t enough, Chris is also soon to be out as a published author. She’s contributing an essay to a collection by ex-Mormon LBGTQ folks entitled 'I Spoke to You with Silence,' to be published by the University of Utah Press. The title of Chris’ chapter is “Five Reasons Why I Didn’t Belong.” Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Marvin Ellison and Tamara Torres-McGovern Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Chris Davis https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/9203019aabce795c50615e56ceea3c83.png f9ff0fb16b7e97efca5dbd440649b515 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Podcasts from WMPG.org and 90.9 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Christephor Gilbert Subject The topic of the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Christephor Gilbert is pastor of St. Ansgar Lutheran Church in Portland. He hails from Louisville, Kentucky, is a graduate of Bard College in upstate New York, and completed his ministry studies in Chicago, but ministry is perhaps Christephor’s second or even third career. He has an extensive background in the performing arts as a dancer and choreographer, as an actor and costume designer, and as a director. Before arriving in Portland, he worked for Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries, an organization that affirms and supports LGBTQ+ faith leaders in the Lutheran tradition. He’s also an active member of Proclaim, the professional organization of queer Lutheran pastors and seminarians. Christephor lives in Portland with his husband Donald. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Marvin Ellison and Tamara Torres-McGovern Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Christephor Gilbert https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/db7aaa0f3b8a9bd94212b257b511706b.png 784101432627b0b22a9a27a39ab33ef7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Podcasts from WMPG.org and 90.9 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rev. Christina Cataldo Subject The topic of the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Rev. Christina Cataldo is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. She is a native of East Tennessee, but followed her wife here, to Maine, where she serves a small but soulful and scrappy congregation in Winthrop, and where she serves on the Anti Racism Resource Team for the Maine Conference. She is a graduate of the Divinity School at Wake Forest University and Chicago Theological Seminary. Chrissy sees her vocation as both a call to faith and action. She says, “I am called to be present and attentive to the needs of those considered to be the least of these. In my presence and my action, I hope to accompany those whom I serve on a journey towards deeper and more meaningful faith.” Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Marvin Ellison and Tamara Torres-McGovern Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rev. Christina Cataldo https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/67b1e587e47878f620815df6c71b01b5.png 43b14c450b59ef798b4959afa0b190f8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Podcasts from WMPG.org and 90.9 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bobbi Keppel Subject The topic of the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Bobbi Keppel is an educator, activist, writer, and lover of folk music, who co-founded a Folk Song Society when she lived in Omaha, Nebraska, and in more recent years has belonged to a hospice choir singing to people in end-of-life care. Originally from Washington, D.C., Bobbi graduated from Oberlin College in 1955, but not before completing a year of study abroad at University College, London, where she became a lifetime member of the Debating Society. If you know Bobbi, you can attest to the fact that, even as she approaches her 90th year, she’s lost neither her skills nor her wit as a conversationalist or as a debater. Like many women of her generation, Bobbi married and had two children. Like some women of her generation, she had her own career and worked as a social worker for more than thirty years. But like far fewer women of her generation, at age 43 Bobbi courageously came out as bisexual and became an influential educator and advocate for bisexual rights and for greater recognition of gender and sexual diversity. Her “coming out” essay in the widely-read anthology Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out helped publicize the bisexual movement not only within the U.S., but in other countries, as well. In 1991, she co-founded the Unitarian Universalist Bisexual Network, which later merged into Interweave, the UUA’s queer network. In another essay entitled “Swimming Upstream: Queer Families and Change,” Bobbi wrote this: “In my lifetime, I have been married and monogamous, married and non-monogamous (with men), married and non-monogamous (with women), widowed, single and monogamous with women, single and non-monogamous with married bisexual women, single and non-monogamous with married bisexual men. Some of these relationships have felt like family; others have not. So, what is family? These days, it can be whatever you understand it to be for you. You can even design your own. The one thing that is universal about families is change.” Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Marvin Ellison and Tamara Torres-McGovern Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bobbi Keppel https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/3e9d362da98fa243034ee580daa58017.png 441a4bce36d4a685e1ab4271a926e26b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Podcasts from WMPG.org and 90.9 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bishop Thomas Brown Photo Subject The topic of the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource On June 22, 2019, the Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Brown was ordained and consecrated as the tenth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine – the first openly gay man to be elected to that church office in this state. (The Maine diocese is made up of more than 10,000 people in 59 churches and ministries from Kittery to Fort Kent.) Prior to coming to Maine, Thomas served parishes in Brattleboro, VT and Winchester, MA. In an earlier interview, Bishop Brown reflected on how New Hampshire some 16 years ago had elected the first openly gay man, Gene Robinson, as bishop of that diocese. Looking back on that time, Brown said, “It was just a great moment for American Christianity – a great moment to proclaim a message of God's love. Change in the culture continues to happen when we are authentic and tell the truth about who we are." Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Marvin Ellison and Tamara Torres-McGovern Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bishop Thomas Brown