Originally Livestreamed on Ocotber, 14, 2023
💠 Sister Merry Peter 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, transgender and gender non-conforming inclusion, legal aid for LGBTQ+ 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 22 years.
https://www.instagram.com/sistermerrypeter
💠 Ben “Simon” Dinglasan (they/them/their) is a founding member of CDW and serves as Vice Provost and Formation Guardian. They were born in the Philippines and raised in New York City, eventually moving to San Francisco where they became a friar with the Society of Saint Francis from 2007 to 2014. They are a Candidate for Holy Orders in the Episcopal Diocese of California and are in the final year of the Master of Divinity degree at Bexley Seabury Seminary, a nonresidential school based in Chicago. In addition to supporting the life of the Companions as a Formation Counselor and in numerous other practical ways, they are also a trained spiritual director and meet with folks regularly to companion them on their journey of nurturing a deeper intimacy with their spirituality/higher power/connection to the Universe/sense of self. Simon is serving as a student intern this year at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist in the Mission.
💠 Queer nun Sister Diana Fyre FKA Queer nun Sister Agnes Dei’Afta Tamara, photographed by Benjamin Benoit for the book Sister Stories… In Their Own Words. Sister Stories documents the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence - San Francisco’s queer nuns, famous for their charity and social activism.
💠 Sister Hellen Wheels of the Daughters of the Divine Eruption or Brother Sirius Lee, I am a retired Fully Professed Member of the San Francisco Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc. the San Francisco Mother House. I started with The Sisters in 1988. After 26 years of service and thousands of hours of behind-the-scenes work, I am not retired. Retirement doesn’t equal resignation in the Sisters so I will still be attendin g a few select events.
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
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The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence® are a leading-edge Order of queer and trans nuns. We believe all people have a right to express their unique joy and beauty.
Since our first appearance in San Francisco on Easter Sunday, 1979, the Sisters have devoted ourselves to community service, ministry and outreach to those on the edges, and to promoting human rights, respect for diversity and spiritual enlightenment.
We use humor and irreverent wit to expose the forces of bigotry, complacency and guilt that chain the human spirit.
Saturday - October 14, 2023 Time 245pm PST
📍Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco
1187 Franklin St - Cathedral Hill, San Francisco CA USA
👑 Drag & Spirituality Summit 2023 📍 San Francisco, CA USA
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