a queer chaplain

🌐 Drag as Spiritual Healing Panel at Drag & Spirituality Summit 2022

November 07, 2022 Bonnie Violet
a queer chaplain
🌐 Drag as Spiritual Healing Panel at Drag & Spirituality Summit 2022
a queer chaplain
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Friday Oct 7 at 1230pm-130pm CST at Center On Halsted

MODERATOR : Rev. Todd Atkins-Whitley aka Blessya Hartz

Programs - Spiritual Care 
Oakland, CA
(He/Him)( She/Her)

As a cisgender, male-identified, white, gay person born into two dominant religions (America and Christianity), I engage the art of drag to help heal the wounds of toxic masculinity and misogyny upon my body and spirit while also transgressing patriarchal, sexist notions of God that bring harm to queer people. Drag is a new form of spirituality for me and I have found it so far to be liberating. It has also allowed me, as a religious leader, to hold space with folx who have been traumatized by purveyors of toxic religion.

PANELIST: Coco Sho-Nell was born in a small town outside of Gary, Indiana. And that town was called Chicago! Coco has been in existence for 13 years but as a theatre actor she has been performing for over 20 years. Coco is a theatre camp queen through and through. Coco is current cast member on season 4 of Camp Wannakiki on OUTtv. She also has been fortunate to have worked with some great Theatre companies in the Chicagoland area. Most notable are Theo Ubique, Fox Valley Repertory, Northlight, Red Tape Theatre and Hell in a Handbag Productions, just to names a few. Most recently Coco was named runner up as Chicago reader's best drag entertainer of 2020 and was named the grand Marshall for the Buffalo Grove pride parade in 2022

PANELIST: "Nancy Nogood is what you get if Pussy Riot headlined the Grand Ol Opry. Born out of a mind corrupted by downtown Manhattan, she's appeared on stages and screens across the country with her signature blend of drag and performance art. Nancy is the product of Philip Calabro, a queer artist born and raised as a Roman Catholic in the American South. He was going to be a priest but, meh. Here we are now. "

PANELIST:

Juan Pablo Herrera

Logistics Committee Chair
Chicago, IL
he/him

Juan Pablo is Pastor of Discipleship at Urban Village Church. He is currently imagining a new faith community that is bold, inclusive, and relevant but centered around Latinx voices as part of his work at Urban Village.

https://www.dragandspirituality.com

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Tina, is a conservative christian woman and Bonnie Violet, a trans gender queer drag queen. While many family members are choosing to no longer speak, we have chosen to sit at the table and engage in difficult conversation to find peace and restoration.

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