Drag & Spirituality
by Bonnie Violet, a queer chaplain
Drag is Sacred begins LIVE at QCF Conf on 1/14/2024In each episode, Bonnie Violet, a queer chaplain, guides a conversation surrounding Drag and Spirituality, with 56 drag artists of a variety of spiritual experience, gender, age, race, sexual orientation, size, ability, and styles of drag. Bonnie Violet, would like to showcase the intersectionality between drag and spirituality - that neither are mutually exclusive- and to integrate both the individual & people as a whole into ONEness.👑 Drag & Spirituality Summit - Oct 31- Nov 3 - Toronto, Ontario CA https://www.dragandspirituality.com
Episodes
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Queer Christian Fellowship Conference 2023 - Albuquerque New Mexico
Queer Christian Fellowship Conference 2023 - Albuquerque New Mexico
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Try This In A Small Town - Drag Queen Panel Discussion
Try This In A Small Town - Panel Discussion ✨ Miss Cali Je is an Episcopalian and a drag artist from Pocatello, ID. She has worked most recently as an advocate for queer people across the state. She grew up Baptist, but was received into the Anglican tradition as a young adult....
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Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at Drag & Spirituality Summit 2023
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...
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T for Transformation: Religion. Relapse. Remission. - Keynote Mama Ganuush at Drag & Spirituality Summit 2023
Streamed live on Oct 14, 2023 Mama Ganuush is a survivor who has overcome multiple traumas, including religious trauma, conversion therapy, rape trauma, and the weight of African heritage and intergenerational Palestinian genocide. As a Queer activist and refugee, they found sanctuary in the Bay...
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My Body, My Spirit - Embodiment Panel for Drag & Spirituality Summit 2023
💠 Rev. Dr. Anastasia Kidd is a pastor, educator, storyteller, and fat activist who studies how Christian colonialism helped establish structural anti-fatness in U.S. society and beyond. She believes that identifying with unrepentant fatness can help undermine all that is wrong with the world by...
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Over the Rainbow 🏳️🌈 From Shame to Pride - Keynote by Fonda Koxx at Drag & Spirituality Summit 2023
Fonda Koxx AKA Eric Dorsa is a National LGBTQ+ Mental Health Advocate and Activist. They are the host of “Speaking Out Loud” a social media series with Eating Recovery Center and Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Center. Eric is an LGBTQ activist, actor, comedian, and drag queen currently living in New…
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🤡 Spirit Of Drag Clownery with King Julez at Drag & Spirituality Summit 2023
🤡 Spirit of Drag Clownery - Opening Plenary 👑 https://linktr.ee/kingjulez King Julez (they/them) has been involved with the United Church of Canada for most of their life! They are one of the chair of Affirm United/S’affirmer Ensemble, an organization that helps communities of faith become…
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#56 Kween Bee Velvet - Idaho Drag Queen the grew up in the LDS church
👑 Drag & Spirituality a conversation about Drag & Spirituality with hostess a queer chaplain, B0NNi33 Vi0L3T sponsored by DR&SS - Drag & Spirituality Summit 2023. 👑 Kween Bee Velvet (she/her) 📍Pocatello, Idaho 🔆 LIVESTREAM Wednesday August 23, 2023 @ 630PM MST on YouTube...
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🦋Queer Grace | Father's Day Pride Sermon | Bethany United Methodist Church of San Francisco
** pulled from facebook - my apologies for quality of video & sound #pride #dragqueen #grace Bonnie Violet is a trans femme genderqueer spiritual drag artist and digital chaplain. YouTuber & Host of a queer chaplain podcast with such series as Drag & Spirituality, TranSpirit & Faith Leaders....
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#54 ⚪️ Idaho Drag Is Divine with Amelia Blayke Cloaked in Rhinestones & Shadows. 💎🕯
⚪️ iDAHO DRAG iS DiViNE ⚪️⚪️ Amelia Blayke (she/her) Twin Falls, Idaho 🔆 LIVESTREAM Wednesday March 29th @ 730PM MST on YouTube @dragandspirituality ⚪️ "I am an enigma wrapped in a mystery cloaked in rhinestones and shadows. A being of energy and intention that thrives in the expressive arts…
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#53 👑 ✡️ Layah Louder is your favorite Kinky Jewish American Godex!
✡️ Layah Louder (she/her) Chicago, Illinois, USA 🔆 LIVESTREAM Friday March 17 @ 6PM CST on YouTube @dragandspirituality ✡️ Layah Louder is your favorite Kinky Jewish American Godex! She's ready to pray to the gay to stay with our beautiful trans god and slay the runway by night! With the mix of...
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#52 ⚪️ Idaho Drag Is Divine with Annie Depressant a Bubble Gum Princess Pill 👑💊👠
⚪️ Annie Depressant (she/her) Seattle, Washington 🔆 LIVESTREAM Saturday March 11 @ 530PM PST on YouTube @dragandspirituality ⚪️ Annie Depressant (she her) is one of the co winners of BNDS season 2, and was the first afab contestant and winner. She’s also a former Miss Boise Pride. And she is now...
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#51 ⚪️ Idaho Drag Is Divine with Buck D’Licious - Boise’s favorite pint-size pixie boy! 🧚♂️
⚪️ BUCK D'LICIOUS (They/Them) - Boise, Idaho 🔆 LIVESTREAM Mar 8 @730PM MST on YouTube @dragandspirituality Buck D’Licious is Boise’s favorite pint-size pixie boy! He is the runner up for Boise’s Next Drag Superstar Kings Season 2, the assistant director for the Gendertainers, a drag king with…
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#50 ⚪️ Idaho Drag Is Divine with Chico Mia A Brazilian Born and Boise Based Drag Thing
CHICO MIA (he/they) - Boise, Idaho LIVESTREAM Feb 25 @430PM MST on YouTube @dragandspirituality Chico Mia is a Drag Thing born in Brazil and based in Boise, ID. Chico is inspired by his home country's Samba heroes, 70’s androgynous aesthetics, rockabilly, and Club Kidz. Chico was elected Mx....
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#48 ⚪️ Idaho Drag Is Divine - Jazmyn J Addressing Misconceptions ✊🏼👑 #ProtectDrag
⚪️ JAZMYN J (she/they) Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 🔆 LIVEstream Feb 19 @ 6pm PST on YouTube @dragandspirituality I am Jazmyn J (she/they), originally from the Philippines and moved to Los Angeles in 2000 and been living in Coeur d’Alene since 2019. I started performing in drag in December 2019 after...
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#46 ⚪️ Idaho Drag Thing Faeryl Sweet Raised Mormon in Small, Christian Town 🧚🏻♂️🤓#ProtectDragInIdaho
⚪️ FAERYL SWEET (they/fae) Boise, Idaho 🔆 LIVESTREAM Sunday FEBRUARY 12 @ 5PM MST on YouTube @dragandspirituality Faeryl Sweet as a performer is a mixed bag of fever dream manic pixie dream thing, and nerd culture. Raised in the Mormon church in a small, primarily Christian town in Treasure...
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🌐 Drag While Sober Panel at Drag & Spirituality Summit 2022
Sunday Oct 9 at 11am-12pm CST at Center On Halsted Drag While Sober PANELIST : Angel aka Linda Summers Ambassador San Francisco, CA (she/they) Angel, AKA Linda Summers is a gay and queer drag performer in San Francisco who embraces beauty, glamour and principles. As a former Disciple of Christ,...
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💠 King LOTUS BOY - Divine Healing: Reconnecting to Spirituality After Trauma at Drag & Spirituality Summit 2022
Keynote at Drag & Spirituality Summit 2022 LOTUS BOY (He/Him, Ze/Zir, They/Them) is a shapeshifting, transgender and nonbinary, unapologetically disabled, Chinese-American drag king and anti-disciplinary artist based in occupied Lisjan Ohlone Land (Oakland, CA). He explores gender fluidity,...
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🌐 Embodiment Panel at Drag & Spirituality Summit 2022
Saturday Oct 8 at 130pm-230pm CST at Broadway United Methodist What is the concept of embodiment? “Embodiment or incarnation is defined as the giving of human form to a spirit – to make manifest or comprehensible an idea or concept, through a physical presentation”, “a tangible or visible form of...
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🌐 Spiritual Care for Drag Artists Panel at Drag & Spirituality Summit
MODERATOR : John M. Brett He/Hym/Hys AKA Rev Bené Diction Programs - Spiritual Care, San Francisco, CA IrReverend. High Priest of Fabulous. Poetry Fool. Connector of People & Organizations for Good. Street Chaplain. Artistic Dilettante. Host of Drag Eucharist in the streets of the Castro through...
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🌐 Born Naked: Queering Our Religious and Spiritual Identities Panel at Drag & Spirituality Summit 2022
The art of Drag teaches us - artists and fans alike - how to playfully break down the boundaries that society forces us into. In this interfaith panel, a group of Drag lovers will discuss how Drag influences our religious and spiritual identities. What do you love about your tradition? What does...
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💠 Flamy Grant: Bible Belt Baby - Keynote at Drag & Spirituality Summit 2022
Friday Oct 7 at 3pm CST - Center On Halsted Flamy Grant - Bible Belt Baby Flamy Grant (she/her or they/them) is a shame-slaying, hip-swaying heathen with Appalachian roots who now calls San Diego home. This singing/songwriting drag queen time traveled from a 90s Lilith Fair tour to the present…
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🌐 Kings, Quings & Things in Drag Panel at Drag & Spirituality Summit 2022
Oct 7, 2022 145pm-245pm CST at Center On Halsted PANELIST: christopher belmont (it/he/she) is a clown-inspired kingthing from chicago, IL. it believes and lives a life of freedom from gender expectations and norms, to live however you choose to live as your truest and wholest self. this ethos in...
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🌐 Drag as Spiritual Healing Panel at Drag & Spirituality Summit 2022
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...
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#45 Veronika Electronika
👑 Veronika Electronika 📌 Nashville, Tennessee I am originally from NYC and moved to the buckle of the Bible best, Nashville TN to explore Christian music and culture. Being a drag performer and a Christian has been both a challenge and a great opportunity. I am married and enjoy a very full...
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#44 Justyn Caze
👑 Justyn Caze 📌 West Covina, California The name is Justyn Caze and I'm an Imperial Crown Prince of the Imperial Court of Los Angeles & Hollywood Reign 51 & 52. I've been performing for over a year and a half and try to do more non-profit gigs as I like to give back to our community and help...
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#43 Frida Nightz
👑Frida Nightz Boise, Idaho XO Frida 💃🏽 she/they Boise’s Latinx Vixen Winner of Boise’s Next Drag Superstar S5 @tropicana_nights @thebalconyclub Queer trans femme nb goddess Bio and more information to come, in the meantime check out Frida at https://www.instagram.com/fridanightz 👑 Drag &...
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#42 King Julez
👑 King Julez Toronto, Ontario King Julez is a Masters of Divinity student, board chair for Affirm United/S'affirmer Ensemble, and future ordinand within The United Church of Canada. Their long-term goal is to be a drag clown minister, and help to bridge the gap between faith communities and the...
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#41 Kai
👑 Kai (he/they) 📌 Denair, California "My name is Kayla Sadler, I’m 27 years old and I’m a baby Drag King. I identify as a gender fluid demisexual panromantic and my pronouns are they/she/he. My Drag King persona is "Kai" and I’ve been preforming since February 2022. I’m originally from Murphys,...
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#40 Restalynn Pieces
👑 Restalynn Pieces (she/her) 📌 Fort Lauderdale, Florida "Restalynn Pieces is a multidisciplinary artist from South Florida with a focus in circus arts and performance. She is also a published artist that has worked with non profits and has been featured in magazines and books in America. Born…
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#39 Maxima Lyght
👑 Maxima Lyght (he/she/them) 📌 Los Angeles, California You may have seen Maxima on HBO MAX Legendary (Season 3) representing the House of Lyght "Born and Raised in LA Maxima Lyght and has seen almost every facet of it. A baby drag queen but experienced performer, Maxima likes to take the...
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#37 Nancy Nogood
👑 Nancy Nogood (she/her) Brooklyn , New York "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...
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#38 Laiylah Alf Wa Laiylah
👑 Laiylah Alf Wa Laiylah (she/her) 📌 New Haven, Connecticut "A kinder-gentler Afrocentrist , an alchemist , an eonist , a dramaturge an erotic adventurer and a thespian ! I'm a Lover (and Writer) not a fighter but as a masculine (whatever that means) man aware of his innate Amazon " I Seek…
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#36 Lady Chilane
👑 Lady Chilane 📌 29 Palms, California "I'm an energy Healer, Tarot Reader, and a retro style drag queen who has been performing since 2006. My purpose in life is to help others through spirituality all while looking fabulous." "It's important for me to participate in this event because I…
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#35 Angel
👑 Angel (she/her they/them) 📌 San Diego, California "I am a traveling performer, drag on the side. I got into drag once i was sober and was able to really focus on myself and who i am. I believe that you can create your future day, by speaking into the universe or spirituality that you follow."...
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#34 RED
👑 Red 📌 Savannah, Georgia "I like to call myself the Sarcastic Show-Ghoul of Savannah. I enjoy treading the line of femininity and masculinity and then turning that line into a squiggly. The spiritual practice I have in place for myself is a mix of Pantheism and Wicca ideals. As a young queer I...
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#31 Ashlé Blow, #32 The Dragon King, & #33 Bobby Friday!
👑 Drag & Spirituality - Gender Diverse The Spirit, The Body, The Artist. a conversation about all things gender, all things drag & all things spiritual. 👑 Ashlé Blow. 🔗 https://www.instagram.com/ashle_blow "As a non-binary performer who is transitioning later in life. I find this experience to...
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Half my face is paralyzed, I'm okay its just Bells Palsy
Half my face is paralyzed, I'm okay its just Bells Palsy
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#29 Mango Lassi / #30 Coco Sho-Nell
‘Drag & Spirituality’ part deux!! Join a multi-faith international conversation featuring Mango Lassi, Coco Sho-Nell, LoUis CYfer, and hostess, B0NNi33 Vi0L3T. Tune in live @aqueerchaplain on YouTube, Facebook or Twitch! Humza A. Mian aka Mango Lassi is a queer Canadian-Pakistani who currently...
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#28 Honey Mohagany
Activist, politico, and drag queen Honey Mahogany is a San Francisco native and a social worker by training who received her Masters in Social Welfare from UC Berkeley. Currently serving as the 3rd Vice Chair of the the San Francisco Democratic Party, Honey is also co-founder of the Transgender...
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#27 King LOTUS BOY
LOTUS BOY is a trans, fluid, Chinese-American drag king based in Occupied Muwekma Ohlone Land (aka San Jose, CA). He is a former Vacation Bible School enthusiast who was raised Christian, but currently identifies as Spiritual and non-denominational (for now). Through their drag, she seeks to...
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#26 Afrika America
*sorry bout sound, will work on edit when able. Afrika America Social Justice Warrior, Activist, Producer and Performer. These are just a few adjectives that characterize this phenomenal Drag Out the Vote Ambassador. She producers the Saturday DIVALICIOUS brunch shows at Beaux on 1st Saturdays,...
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#25 Poly Amber Ross / Peter Pansexual
Polly Amber Ross (she/they) is an undead housewife living her best afterlife dissecting the patriarchy one slaughter at a time, and Peter Pansexual (he/they) is a zombie manchild working to unlearn toxic masculinity while falling apart at the seams. Both are alteregos of Trans Nonbinary Queer...
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#24 Flamy Grant
Flamy Grant is a San Diego-based drag performer, and yes, that name is an homage to the queen of Christian pop herself, Amy Grant. Flamy sings, writes, and hosts a podcast about spiritual deconstruction called Heathen. When she's not blessing TikTok with her signature 60-second sermons, this...
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#23 Ms Penny Cost
Isaac Simmons (He/Him/His) is a 23 year old Drag Queen named Ms. Penny Cost (She/Her/Hers) based in Bloomington, IL. Isaac is a United Methodist Certified Candidate for Ordination and serves as the Director of Operations at Hope United Methodist Church. Through his Drag as Ms. Penny Cost, Isaac...
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#22 Milani
I grew up in a Catholic household, which was not really a positive environment for me being a part of the LGBTQIA community as a GNC & drag performer. Currently I am more spiritual, and I have been doing research on Santeria, a religion that is very predominant in the Caribbean region and Mexico.…
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#21 Willa Vawisp
Willa/Tony is originally from Mexico City, and lived in Mexico until the age of 18. Tony was raised in a bicultural, bilingual household, as a Mexican-American. Tony grew up in a syncretic faith experience which brought together Catholicism, Native Indigenous practices, African/Caribbean/African...
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#20 Fonda Koxx
"I am a National LGBTQIA Mental Health Advocate. I currently host Queen & Sober, a Facebook live series that covers all things LGBTQ and mental health. I am also an actor and comedian in Chicago." - Fonda Koxx Series Description Drag & Spirituality : Named & Known, a conversation about Drag &...
About this show
Drag is Sacred begins LIVE at QCF Conf on 1/14/2024In each episode, Bonnie Violet, a queer chaplain, guides a conversation surrounding Drag and Spirituality, with 56 drag artists of a variety of spiritual experience, gender, age, race, sexual orientation, size, ability, and styles of drag. Bonnie Violet, would like to showcase the intersectionality between drag and spirituality - that neither are mutually exclusive- and to integrate both the individual & people as a whole into ONEness.👑 Drag & Spirituality Summit - Oct 31- Nov 3 - Toronto, Ontario CA https://www.dragandspirituality.com
Hosted by
Bonnie Violet, a queer chaplain