Honoring Our LGBTQ+ Religious Elders
Thursday, January 16, 2025
5:00pm Pacific/6:00pm Mountain/7:00pm Central/8:00pm Eastern
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Rabbi Camille Shira Angel teaches this course on Honoring Our LGBTQ+ Religious Elders at the University of San Francisco. Students in the course are matched with a queer person of faith elder-activist whom to interview and then to create a video portraying their life and work. In this webinar you will see the short videos about elders created by two student cohorts and then Rabbi Angel will invite the students to share about what they learned in this experience.
Rabbi Camille Shira Angel (she/her) is the campus rabbi for Jewish life and multi-faith LGBTQIA+ spiritual life at the University of San Francisco, where she is faculty in the Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice. Along with her popular courses, Queering Religion, Beyond Gender, and Honoring Our LGBTQ+ Religious Elders, she runs LGBTQ spiritual exploration retreats for the University Ministry. Angel is a ninth generation rabbi, second generation Reform rabbi and is a proud graduate of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. From 2000-2015 Rabbi Angel served as the spiritual leader of San Francisco’s historically LGBTQ Congregation Sha’ar Zahav. During her tenure, she oversaw the publication of Siddur Sha’ar Zahav. Rabbi Angel has written widely on creative liturgy, Judaism and LGBTQ issues.
Students interviewing Nancy Gondar:
Hillary Nguyen (she/her) is a kinesiology major at the University of San Francisco who enjoys exploring poetry, photography, mixed media, fiber arts, and cool facts about the human body.
Sydney Wright is a student at the University of San Francisco, double majoring in English Literature and Critical Diversity Studies with a concentration in Gender & Sexuality Studies, who reads a lot of books, but still has a full TBR.
Harley Zerega (they/them) is a physics major at the University of San Francisco, with a minor in astrophysics, who enjoys reading, writing, wrestling, and hockey when they're not studying.
Students interviewing Mike Shiver:
Drew Dawson is a critical diversity studies student and ASUSF Senate Gender & Sexuality Representative,
Lincoln Kuhn is a returning student and psychology major.
Lily Stringfellow is a public health student and community organizer.
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Jewish (ethnic, Reform, Reconstructionist, Orthodox)