UPLIFT blog is for “Uplifting LGBTQ+ experience within and beyond Unitarian Universalism.” UPLIFT is a platform for the UUA to highlight LGBTQ+ issues and concerns by featuring related programming, reflections, and content circulated in our quarterly email newsletter.
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By Jessi Sadaka |Today we grieve for disabled people who have been murdered by the same people who should have loved and supported them: their family members. For me, a broader pain accompanies this grief, about how strong ableism is and how deeply it is engrained throughout our society. -
Surviving a Plague … Again The year is 2021, I am 47, and I’m a 15-year survivor of the first plague of Generation X. Every part of that sentence makes me feel some kind of way. First of all … FORTY-SEVEN! I’m not one of those forever-young queens, so I’m very excited to be alive and grown... -
By Michael J. Crumpler |The Biden-Harris Administration signed executive orders prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation and enabling transgender Americans to serve in the military. -
By Susan Frederick-Gray |My prayer on this Transgender Day of Remembrance is for the senseless acts of transantagonistic violence to end. And that we may all take on the work to disrupt the systems and cultures that perpetuate this violence. -
Join the Unitarian Universalist Association on Friday, November 20th for a Transgender Day of Remembrance Service. As you well know, 2020 has been for the most part, a very, very painful for everyone. Amid a global pandemic, epic unemployment, and a series of state-sanctioned murders of Black... -
Funded by the UU Women’s Federation (UUWF), Adrian's work will be centered on building relationships among trans/non-binary lay UUs; strengthening gender justice ministries in UU congregations; and supporting and improving reproductive justice initiatives and partnerships. -
By Shige Sakurai (they/them), Jude Sylvan |A Ceremony for Proclaiming and Affirming Name and Pronouns By Shige Sakurai (they/them). This beautiful ceremony is for trans and nonbinary folks, and could also be used by anyone who is changing their name. -
By Michael J. Crumpler |As Unitarian Universalists, ending discrimination against LGBTQ+ people at work and everywhere is the goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice. -
By Jude Sylvan |Isolation can be a playground for depression and other mental health conditions, and the LGBTQ community is already at higher risk. -
By Jude Sylvan |To expect resilience from profound loss before or without grief is cruel.
