Drag & Spirituality

#16 Sister Merry Peter


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Sister Merry Peter, SPI, is an activist nun raising joyful resistance who found her vocation through the Radical Faeries in 1987 and served as a missionary in Toronto before moving to San Francisco in 1999. Her life-long activism focuses on HIV-AIDS, queer youth, civil rights and social justice. As a divinity student, she co-founded the first LGBT Student Union at the University of Toronto and led a successful national campaign against conversion therapy in Canada. Her efforts include partnerships to provide street-level health services to sex workers, legal aid for LGBTQIA+ refugees and resistance to police violence. She is a poet, writer and former sex-worker. As an ordained minister, she joined the fight for equal marriage in San Francisco in 2004 and regularly performs wedding ceremonies. She lives on the coast with her husband of 21 years.


a conversation about Drag & Spirituality with hostess a queer chaplain, B0NNi33 Vi0L3T (AKA Duane Quintana) sponsored by GLIDE & Glide Pride Team

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Project Overview

The GLIDE Pride Team & GLIDE Memorial Church in presenting the legendary B0NNi33 Vi0L3T in the second installment of her series of talk show style interviews and culminating “Sunday Third Celebration.” Featuring different San Francisco Bay Area drag artists “Drag and Spirituality” starting on July 19th , 2020 and culminated on August 16th , 2020. Interviews took place every Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday at 7:11PM PST on GLIDE's Facebook LIVE.

In each episode, Bonnie Violet, a queer chaplain, guides a conversation surrounding Drag and Spirituality, with drag artists of a variety of spiritual experience, gender, age, race, sexual orientation, size, ability, and styles of drag.  Bonnie and GLIDE would like to showcase the intersectionality between drag and spirituality- that neither are mutually exclusive- and to integrate both the individual and the people into ONEness.

In a final performance on August 16th at 3:33 pm PST. Six drag artists share a piece of their spiritual practice in the form of a song, dance, prayer, and other rituals.

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Drag & SpiritualityBy Bonnie Violet, a queer chaplain