TDOV Workshop: Surviving Toxic Theologies While Black & Trans
Sunday, March 30 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
This 2-hour session will take participants through an understanding of the real-world implications of theologies of violence and what potential interventions can look like for UU and other faith communities. Using personal anecdotes, interviews, and exploration exercises, individuals will come away from this session better knowing how these concepts show up in their lives and what solidarity with targeted communities can be.
How to Attend
- 10:30 a.m.: Transgender Day of Visibility Worship Service featuring J Mase III
- 11:45 a.m.: Community Lunch
- 1:00 p.m.: Workshop led by J Mase III (Registration will help us plan. Plus, we will send you a reminder!)
Both events and lunch are free and open to all—come celebrate, learn, and connect!
Masks are required for the Workshop and will be provided.
More Information
J Mase III is an award winning Black Trans poet, author, educator & filmmaker. As an educator, Mase has worked globally on the needs of LGBTQIA+ folks and racial justice in spaces such as K-12 schools, universities, faith communities and restricted care facilities. His work has been featured on MSNBC, Essence Live, Everyday Feminism, Black Girl Dangerous, Buzzfeed, Blavity, the Root, the Huffington Post, TED and more.
J Mase is author of And Then I Got Fired: One Transqueer’s Reflections on Grief, Unemployment & Inappropriate Jokes About Death as well as White Folks Be Trippin’: An Ethnography Through Poetry & Prose and Josephine: a trans story of biblical proportions. He is head writer of the theatrical production Black Bois and the short film Bad Theology. Winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Non-Fiction and a Sundance Uprise Fellow, he is co-director of the forthcoming documentary, the Black Trans Prayer Book. A librettist for Untitled: A Trans Musical with his artistic collaborator Dane Figueroa Edidi, J Mase believes in a world rooted in community care. He co-founded the virtual community, Garden, specifically for BIPOC people engaging in pandemic safety. His most recent work Is Your God a Violent God?: Finding a Theology for Survivors is forthcoming from Bembe Press.
Event Details
Transportation & Parking
We have several parking lots. Our upper lot, off SE 32nd Street, is closest to our Sanctuary, it has handicap and stroller parking. There is a roundabout for drop-offs. Our lower, main parking lot is also off SE 32nd Street. There are stairs that will lead you up to the Sanctuary. If that lot is full, there is also street parking on 32nd Street.
