Queer Spirit
Monthly on zoom
7pm - 8pm ET
A collective offering for expansive possibility from Rev. Micah Bucey and Community Minister Elæ Moss Benedetto
THIS MONTH’s QUEER SPIRIT @ JUDSON | QUEERING DEATH | Monday, 4/13 @7pm on Zoom
Spring is here! April has offered up our final new years’ celebrations across calendars, particularly in South Asian traditions, and Passover began during Holy Week, with the Christian and Jewish calendars now moving through the 50 days of Eastertide, ending at Pentecost, mirroring its origins in counting the Omer for 49 days concluding in Shavuot. Harvest festivals and rituals expressing gratitude for abundance start showing up, as they will through the fall. And the origin stories here both celebrate eco and human system beginnings – inviting us to both re/member and embody our liberation from the forces that would divide and subjugate us.
And here at Queer Spirit, at this moment of re/birth, we are queering… Death… this month. But while it is, in part, an invitation to acknowledge, hold, and honor the rage and grief of the many losses we are being forced to reckon with at this time, we also want to invite a loving consideration of the deaths we might welcome in the name of what we’re becoming and building – and look to how our sacred teachers (both faith based and secular) offer blueprints for these complex and transformational portals.
Who might we be on the other side? What in us, individually and collectively, are we invited to lay to rest, and how might we do so with deep care for our hearts and each others’? How can we liturgically, relationally, and somatically locate the miracle-gro needed to unlock this next level?
So we queer(y) Death — maybe even try to love it a little, to welcome it as part of life, a divine opportunity to put our stories to lived use as we pray with our feet, on the streets and in whatever way we’re choosing to be part of the change.
Join us – for an hour of queered lectio zoom divina of sacred poetics, music, and scripture across faiths and centuries, with folks from near and far. What a magic gift it always is to open that screen to this collective seed of discovery! You are welcome, let’s begin and begin and begin, together.