Browse Items (2502 total)

[Shanaya] moved in with Christian couple Trevor and Judy, who worked closely with asylum seekers through the Detention Centre. The couple introduced her to the Newtown Mission church and its Pastor, Andy, who became the first friend she ever came out…

The activists say the law violates body autonomy by denying government recognition of a trans person unless they have been surgically altered and are registered with the government. All others must go unrecognized.

Rev. Valerie Spencer is a healer, behavioral health therapist, cultural visionary, national community leader, and interfaith minister. The Holistic Empowerment Institute is her concept. She has been at the forefront of addressing behavioral health…

The Native Heritage project is an ongoing effort to document the Native American people as they obtained surnames and entered recorded history in the continental United States. https://nativeheritageproject.com

At least 15,000 of those nonwhites who were not allowed to be buried in the white church cemetery were buried instead in an area reserved for Africans that was excavated during construction. Only a few graves are visible in the memorial, and some of…

The movements of its free and enslaved residents, even when and where they could bury their dead, was highly regulated in an attempt to preclude insurrections.

This community existed in an area gutted by immanent domain when the city took the land…

Trans spiritual expression has evolved in the context of rapid ecological decline since the late 1800s. At times trans people have lived and worshipped near Native Americans. However, the cross-fertilization of their spiritual values was not seen as…