Upcoming Events!

Sorry for the lack of posting on here this week...I ended up getting one of the Vassar sicknesses going around and have been unable to function for the past couple days. Let me do my best to catch you up on some upcoming events though...

Wednesday, November 19

5-6:30pm in Faculty Commons
A Place to Call Home

An exploration of what it means to be intersex in the Vassar community and the world. A journey of breaking down the boundaries of sex, gender, and sexual orientation to find community.
FREE PIZZA and Refreshments!


Thursday, November 20
12-1pm in LGBTQ Center (CC 235)
Fruit Salad! Transgender Panel
A panel of people from the Mid Hudson Valley Transgender Association will share their stories.
FREE PIZZA!
Part of our Fruit Salad! series about diversity in the queer community.

QCVC Presents...
Kiss Me and Betray Me: Queer musings on gods, sacred texts, and power
Thursday, November 20
5pm in Rocky 300
Presented by: The Rev. Edgard Francisco Danielsen-Morales, Ph.D.

They say the name of God is sacred, the Scriptures are sacred, and the church is sacred. This truth has been revealed and it is this revelation what supports the three most common arguments in religious debates about social justice: “God says…” “The Bible says…” “The Church says…”

This is what we have heard: to be faithful to God we must receive this revelation with a kiss and embrace it.

Not anymore!

During this event – part lecture, part workshop, and part discussion – the presenter and attendees will engage in a conversation about the calling of queer people in this postmodern era: to kiss and to betray in order to be faithful. It is time to desacralize what has been made sacred.

The attendees will kiss and betray ideas of God, the Bible, and the church. They will do this by exploring the connections between revelation and power, by doing an exercise on queer reading of a Sacred Text, and by engaging in queer god-talk connecting various dimensions of social justice, spirituality, and sexuality.

“To be queer is to desacralize what has been made sacred
for the sake of the powers of this world.”
Marcella Althaus-Reid, Latin American Theologian