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To Mapuche shamans, or machi, the foye tree is important for its medicinal qualities and hermaphroditic flowers, which reflect the gender-shifting components of machi healing practices. Framed by their cultural constructions of gender and identity,…

“I know it’s not normal for most musicians, but I live in silence. I don’t listen to music at all unless something comes across my ears, and then I will listen to it exclusively for a year or two. I will study it. Not because I’m going to emulate it,…

He required celibacy and held communion feasts instead of regular sermons.

Raised in an African American Baptist family, Harmon was eight when he received a call to the ministry. Declaring himself gay in 1994 was an act that began his life work of helping Black Churches welcome their LGBT members.

The Jane Minor BIPOC Community Medicine Garden is a sanctuary for Black, Indigenous and People of Color to come together to connect with the Earth, the plants, the community, and with themselves.

Double jeopardy means BIPOC trans people typically strive to survive in the outside world and the LGBTQ community. Not only must they expend their energies defending themselves from anti-trans forces external to their communities. But they also must…

Sylvia Rivera was one of the earliest and most influential transgender rights activists to emerge in the wake of the Stonewall Inn uprising in 1969. She was close friends with Marsha P. Johnson, and spent almost her entire life fighting for civil…

Mrs. Anderson is known as the first black transgender person to fight for her right to marriage in court in 1945. She and her husband were convicted of fraud and sent to prison because they signed a marriage license to be legally married, and she…