Lavender Mafia

This week Jess & Jack talk about all the kinds of anti-trans, anti-drag, and other anti-LGBTQ legislation being proposed (or passed) in legislatures across the United States.

We talk about the impact of these bills on us and on other queer people and our communities, as well as why these bills are bad from both queer and Christian perspectives. 

Keep a lookout for more new episodes, as we return to a more regular posting schedule! And, as always, visit linktr.ee/lavmafia for our IG, Twitter, Facebook community page, Discord, and Patreon, and go to lavmafia.com for merch!

This week Jess & Jack have a conversation catching each other (and you) up on what we’ve been up to lately. Marriage! Jobs! Church stuff! Disabling illness! You know, the usual. 

Keep a lookout for more new episodes, as we return to a more regular posting schedule! And, as always, visit linktr.ee/lavmafia for our IG, Twitter, Facebook community page, Discord, and Patreon, and go to lavmafia.com for merch!

This week Jess & Jack have a conversation about reconstruction. After we tear down the religious structures of thought and action that oppressed us for years…what’s next? Do we build back better? Or do we salt the earth and move on?

Jess opens up about mommy issues. We talk about what reconstruction has looked like for us, what we think reconstruction will look like in the future, and share some tips that might help for those who want to reconstruct but feel stuck.

As always, be fierce, keep the faith, and visit linktr.ee/lavmafia for our IG, Twitter, Facebook community page, Discord, and Patreon, and go to lavmafia.com for merch!

This week Jess & Jack finish taking an online purity test together and share anecdotes about our “less pure” moments, from run-ins with principals and police to public nudity, as well as plenty of sexual exploits, then share our scores. Who’s more “impure”? The answer may surprise you!

Take the purity test along with us as at ricepuritytest.com while you listen to the episode!

Visit linktr.ee/lavmafia for our IG, Twitter, Facebook community page, Discord, and Patreon, and go to lavmafia.com for merch!

This week Jess & Jack take an online purity test together and share anecdotes about our “less pure” moments, from run-ins with principals and police to public nudity, as well as plenty of sexual exploits. On next week’s ep, Jess & Jack finish the test and compare scores. Who’s more “impure”? The answer may surprise you!

Take the purity test along with us as at ricepuritytest.com while you listen to the episode!

Visit linktr.ee/lavmafia for our IG, Twitter, Facebook community page, Discord, and Patreon, and go to lavmafia.com for merch!

This week Jess & Jack have a discussion about prayer. We talk about what it is (and isn’t), what we were taught about prayer growing up, what shame and personality types have to do with it, and what our relationships are to prayer now.

Hit us up on our social medias to tell us what prayer means to you, how you pray (if you do), and how you would re-imagine a line or lines from the Lord’s Prayer for your own context.

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This week Jess & Jack respond to a listener question about gender and sexuality labels. We talk about the ways in which our labels have changed over time, the difficulty and importance of keeping up with new labels, as well as the tension between using widely-understood but not-quite-accurate labels vs. using more accurate but niche terms.

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This week’s Jess & Jack respond to a listener question that’s more of a co-host question: Jack asks Jess what good Christian music is to a queer Christian like themself who has left behind the evangelical contexts that introduced (or subjected) them to Christian worship, along with the music itself. Jess talks about their own worship music, recommends some favorite artists, and explains that, especially for those of us who left evangelicalism, worship music can help heal the wounds we got there.

If you’re in the LA area and are interested in queer Christian worship music (or wonder why anyone would be), we hope you’ll join Jess at the Q Worship Collective Weekend on August 26-28! For more information, or to register, visit: www.qworshipcollective.com/conference.

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This week Jess & Jack have a conversation about getting sick and, relatedly, explain our unintentional summer hiatus. We talk about our experiences getting COVID and battling virus-shaming.

We also talk about monkeypox: what it is, how it seems to spread (and how it doesn’t), similarities with both COVID and HIV, and the harms of talking about it as a “gay disease.”

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This week Jess & Jack respond to a listener who wonders if we’d live in an LGBTQ-only country if we could. We talk about the pros and cons, how dynamics of marginalization would change, the most queer form of government, and how the straight world would fall apart without us.

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