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Professor Julia Watts Belser is our 13th Annual CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecturer!

21 September 2022 by Bernard Schlager

Julia Watts Belser, a white Jewish woman with curly brown hair, sits happily in her wheelchair in front of a pink flowering bush. She's wearing a patterned red blazer and red kippah (beret) to match.

Click here to register for this ONLINE Lecture and follow-up discussion which will be offered via Zoom! Queer Crip Revelation: Disability Dance, Jewish Text, and the Sacred Potency of Difference with Professor Julia Watts Belser The 13th Annual CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecture Thursday, 20 October 2022, at 2:30pm (Pacific Time) (Online) Join the Center […]

A CLGS Book Launch for Liberating Gender for Jews and Allies: The Wisdom of Transkeit (ONLINE)

17 September 2022 by Bernard Schlager

Click here to register for this online CLGS Event, which will be offered via Zoom Join us for the book launch of Liberating Gender for Jews and Allies: The Wisdom of Transkeit (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022), an extraordinary collection of essays by trans Jews and allies explores cutting-edge ideas about gender through the lenses of tradition, […]

Check out our September 2022 e-newsletter!

02 September 2022 by Bernard Schlager

Click here for the CLGS September 2022 e-newsletter!

Queering Your Spiritual Leadership! | A Fall 2022 ONLINE Graduate Course

31 August 2022 by Bernard Schlager

Queering Your Spiritual Leadership! A Fall 2022 (7-week) ONLINE Graduate Course Pacific School of Religion 6:10pm to 9pm (Pacific Time) | Thursdays from 8 September through 20 October 2022 This 1.5-credit online course offers a brief introduction to – and broad overview of – queer spiritual leadership as expressed in the lives, writings, and […]

Check Out Our Fall 2022 ONLINE Programming!

26 August 2022 by Bernard Schlager

Click here to check out our Fall 2022 Programming Calendar! Updated 26 August 2022

CLGS Announces Publication of Liberating Gender for Jews and Allies: The Wisdom of Transkeit

21 August 2022 by Bernard Schlager

CLGS is proud to announce the publication of Liberating Gender for Jews and Allies: The Wisdom of Transkeit, co-edited by Rabbi Jane Rachel Litman, Coordinator of the CLGS Jewish Roundtable, and Rev. Jakob Hero-Shaw, Coordinator of the CLGS Transgender Roundtable. This extraordinary collection of essays by trans Jews and allies explores cutting-edge ideas about gender […]

CLGS Announces Our Fall 2022 ONLINE Lavender Lunch Series!

14 August 2022 by Bernard Schlager

The CLGS Fall 2022 ONLINE Lavender Lunch Series Tuesday, 13 September 2022 | 12:15pm (Pacific Time) | ONLINE Decolonizing Spiritual/Faith-Based Exploration and Formation Maij Mai In this online CLGS Lavender Lunch Maij Mai, Coordinator of the CLGS Asian American/Pacific Islander Roundtable, explores what possibilities can exist when cultivating spiritual/faith-based exploration and formation spaces, particularly for marginalized […]

Check out the 1st Edition of the CLGS Asian American/Pacific Islander Roundtable Zine!

12 August 2022 by CLGSAdminy1

CLGS is proud to announce The Orange Left on the Altar, the First Edition of the CLGS Asian American/Pacific Islander Roundtable Zine! Click here to access the Zine The Orange Left On The Altar is a zine, a message, a spell, an incantation, a memory where Queer and Gender Transcendent Asian/American & Pacific Islander folks […]

Check out our August 2022 e-newsletter!

02 August 2022 by Bernard Schlager

Click here for the CLGS August 2022 e-newsletter!

CLGS is Accepting Applications for Our 2022-2023 Trans Seminarian Leadership Cohort!

08 June 2022 by Bernard Schlager

Trans Seminarian Leadership Cohort Application Click here to apply for the 2022-2023 Trans Seminarian Leadership Cohort! The application deadline is Friday, 15 July 2022 A Year-Long Leadership Development Program for Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender-Nonconforming Seminarians For the last nine years, CLGS, the Freedom Center for Social Justice and the National LGBTQ Task Force have sponsored a program for transgender, […]