Will BIPOC Trans-spiritual Leader Reclaim Our Connection to the Land?

Will BIPOC Trans-spiritual Leader Reclaim Our Connection to the Land?

When their original location for the garden was subverted by a recalcitrant seller, the local trans leaders of MTUG (Metro Trans Umbrella Group) flexibly relocated.

This garden created in honor of lost trans lives is a place where trans people can work the land and hold their spiritual activities. "The move will also allow the organization to be a better neighbor," said Elaine Brune, MTUG’s board chair.

Rachel Lippmann, Transgender Memorial Garden Finds New Home In South St. Louis. St. Louis Public Radio.
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/race-identity-faith/2021-07-06/transgender-memorial-garden-finds-new-home-in-south-st-louis

"Let … all the methods of nature study be brought down to the every-day life and language of the masses. Let us become familiar with the commonest thing about us, of which two-thirds of the people are surprisingly ignorant. The highest attainments in agriculture can be reached only when we clearly understand the mutual relationship between the animal, mineral, and vegetable kingdoms, and how utterly impossible it is for one to exist in a highly organized state without the other." (George Washington Carver, The Need of Scientific Agriculture in the South, in Farmers’ Leaflet, no. 7, April 1902).

Transgender Memorial Garden, St. Louis, Missouri