Daitokuzan Johoji Temple is the official name of this sacred space. The name was changed after Nun Shibatani's predecessor passed on to her the responsibility for this temple. Accepting the mantle bequeathed to her, Nun Shibatani nicknamed the place,…
Her work as a rabbi is accomplished through a mission she started called Abyssinian Reform Hebrew Congregations. Hernandez-Perez said she is from the same line of rabbis which goes back to Rabbi Arnold Ford and Rabbi Wentworth Matthew and many other…
We exist in a world where we have multiple and sometimes contradictory identities within ourselves. How do you navigate who you are, when who you are is sometimes at odds with itself?
In her Ted talk called, Imagine if...You Create Your Value, Anglica Ross explains how she achieved success when she became a Buddhist. That decision enabled Miss Ross to recover from a suicide attempt her mother had requested because her religion…
A novel program hires Black trans chefs to provide free, home-cooked meals for the urban poor Black trans people who are living in a Crown Heights food desert.
One transman meets his sister. She says she does not believe in transgender transitions because the bible says it's wrong. But she adds, you're family. Accept me as your brother, he asks. Yes, as my brother, she replies.
Eleven-year-old Ho'onani dreams of leading the hula troupe at her inner-city Honolulu school. The only trouble is this -- the group is just for boys. Nevertheless, she's mahu and fortunate that her teacher understands first-hand what it's like to be…
Christian Nationalism, the assertion that the United States is officially a Christian nation and should be governed by explicitly Christian leaders, is not a new movement, but it is receiving increasing attention.
In the newsletter, the Membership Chair, Sharon Saypen, alerts members who have registered for the 1995 conference to notice the brochure that explains how "the new IFGE wants to make a difference..."
New York Times article mentions a recent surge in donations to grass-roots organizations that help black trans people as well as a rise in individual fund-raisers.
Notes that 15,000 people attended the Brooklyn Liberation march after the killings…