Relaxing after a panel with two of my favourite trans elders (and good friends!) Ben Power and Reverend Louis Mitchell. (And two incredible queer allies!) Ben and Louis were and continue to be two of my biggest inspirations in the Trans Rights Movement (and generally, as people). You may not know them, or realize it, but we all owe a lot of where we are now to these two trans pioneers specifically, and our trans elders and forebears generally. #tdov #trans #nonbinary #intersex #genderqueer #gendernonconforming #transdayofvisibility #transgender #transsexual #transexual #transwoman #activism #visibility #transvisibility #transelders #transpioneers #transgenderwarriors #friends #queerallies #newengland (at Holyoke, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbxkqLqOH3k/?utm_medium=tumblr
Here’s the link to the podcast I did for the Australian radio station, it’s an LGBT+ radio station. I got to choose the songs for the inbetween breaks 😎 https://joy.org.au/transgenderwarriors/2019/09/18/transgender-warriors-jack-murphy/ #jackmurphy #ftm #transgender #transgenderwarriors #podcast #joyfm (at Dublin, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2kZvm6iOAr/?igshid=1nnda2juyqdth
Doing the thing again. Tonight, we have 40pgs of "Women Preaching," a 1pg précis on them, finishing my historical preacher paper on #PauliMurray, and a #sermon reflection. I should probably also eat dinner at some point, and sleep. Oh, and I bought myself #sangria. Tonight's going to need it. #seminarian #seminary #candlerlife #jterm #womenandpreaching #transgenderwarriors, #feministtheology, #womanisttheology https://www.instagram.com/p/BsbYe5FASH8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jctu79tz9gm4
Food for thought a new perspective #IAmTransgenderWarrior Bread crumbs left by our Ancestors the stories of their journies so we may never forget who we truly are Adventures....Explorers....Warriors...Teachers Do You Think Weak souls would be able to embark on such a path or journey We were not born in the wrong body I wasn't. I was born in a body that was uncomfortable and didnt feel right to teach me and others unconditional love....I am lucky and blessed that I live in a time period where I am no longer burned at a stake or killed or murdered for being me. Yes I know that sadly others like myself are still being murdered for being themselves.Different. Not the status quo. And I am so blessed to have the free will and choice to change and mold my body so I feel more at ease in my own skin. Chest Surgery...Vitamin T...bottom surgery...are all choices. These tools and practices allow us to follow our own personal bliss...when one speaks of wholeness of self they refer usually to externalities of self image. And thats where dysphoria and depression lurks around every corner...so to find relief you do external things and for awhile it works....your happy and feeling good about yourself...then one day familar thoughts creep in and depression and mood swings come back....so you look again to external sources to find relief...and for awhile again it works. And then shortly or years after there comes a day where no external source grants you relief. And you dont understand. And you still feel not whole...or not woman or man enough to pass let alone exist in the world... Did it ever occur for someone to teach us to look inside ourselves to find wholeness Newsflash...You were not born as a Cis-Gendered man or woman because your soul decided to choose a much more dangerous...scary...adventurous...fufilling....warrior path to teach....to be the catalyst of human evolution and a great shift in mass consciousness. You Transgender Warriors and Queer non comforming Warriors chose with great purpose to come forth through difficult beginnings and struggles you pave a new path of empathy, compassion, & understanding what is is like being brought up in a society of belief and pressures in someone elses shoes...to then share your journey with others. The moment we stop gendering Masculine and Feminine energy and understand that both exist simultaneously inside us all...the more we will continue to evolve as a race. I am incredibly blessed I live in a time and place where I can choose to have things enhanced or taken off so I can feel the image see and know in my soul projects to the world... #digdeeperthanthesurface #inthedarknesslightisfound #theanswersarewithin What makes a warrior is the way they handle themselves when facing the eye of any storm... seclusion....is an illusion #Masculine #Feminine #IAMYOU #YOUAREME #humblewise #starboiking #alionzpath #storyteller #teacher #transgenderwarrior
THE BROTHERSHIP’S #WCW
Andrea Jenkins (@shesgotgame1), self-described poet, writer, activist, artist, humanitarian and transgender warrior. As of November 7 this year, she is also the first openly transgender black woman to be elected to public office in the United States.
Take some time out of your day to watch Andrea’s informative and inspirational Ted Talk, Why I Wear Purple.
https://instagram.com/p/BRqLHC6gVo2/ check out the clip from the documentary I did last year with @voguewilliams the documentary was shown again last week on Quest Red :) #voguewilliams #transgenderwarriors
Writing a précis, a paper on Pauli Murray, and putting finishing touches on tomorrow's presentation on Women Preaching. #seminarian #seminarylife #candlerlife #womanist #womanisttheology #feministtheology #godisnotaman #womanisthomiletics #jterm #womenandpreaching #transgenderwarriors #intersectionalfeminismorbust https://www.instagram.com/p/BsZE5MjgCJj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=19xwk0prn4kn8