Transgender Day of Visibility 2021 - Butterfly: Una Transformacion
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Butterfly: Una Transformacion is an interactive storytelling performance mixed with poetry on themes around tranness, religious trauma, spirituality, sexuality, queerness, and sobriety (successfully taken to 10+ venues virtually since the pandemic). Metamorphosis is an unapologetic act of faith.
Queer Trans People of Color are often cast out of spiritual spaces due to embracing their authentic identities. Witness a performance which focuses on reclaiming and rebirthing spirituality within queer communities through spoken word, poetry, and music. Cross a rainbow bridge that interconnects sexuality and spirituality and embody your own unique transformation.
A solo 90-minute keynote & performance based on La Espiritista’s book of poetry “Butterfly: Una Transformación.” Q&A followed afterwards.
La Espiritista (They/Goddexx) is a word conjurer, performance artist, and intuitive healer based out of Seattle. They are the author & creative director of “Butterfly: Una Transformación,” a collection of poetry which provides a spiritual framework around the process of inner transformation through four phases of metamorphosis: release. renewal. retreat. rebirth. The performance show and release event for the book was held at the historic Neptune Theatre.
Their experience of religious trauma has led them on a path of integration of the whole being and doing work around queer spirituality. They support individuals ignite and TRANSform energetic wounds through various healing modalities such as poetry, performance, spellwork, tarot readings, ritual altar work, meditations, and energy cleansings.
They also host spiritual and recovery spaces, currently facilitating QTIBIPOC sobriety in partnership with La Conextion, a space for QTIBIPOC who are sober and sober-curious that recognizes sustainable recovery must include ancestral healing, a harm-reduction approach, and acknowledges how addiction is a social justice issue rather than solely a personal defect.
Check out more of their work on IG @iamgoddexx and laespiritista.com