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Being a Refugee, Black, Trans and Muslim (and Still Aware of My Privileges)

Personal Story, Podcast, Uncategorized, Video

How is it to live on the intersection of so many identities? Farah tells us her story of leaving her homeland to find a life without discrimination. Still, with all her identities it is hard to avoid it. Still, even with all the discrimination and challenges she tells us about her blessings and awareness of having privilege in some aspects. It is an encouraging story of finding a new life, new hope and using past experiences to help others around the world.

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Farah’s Book:
Never Arrive by Farah Abdullahi Abdi

Being Orthodox – The Challenges and Possibilities for LGBT+ Inclusion

Personal Story, Podcast, Theology, Video

It has been long due to talk on the Priceless Podcast from the Orthodox perspective. Natallia Vasillevich is an Orthodox theologian and considers herself to be part of the LGBT+ identity. With her words, if you cant find a letter for her, she is the +. Through her personal story, she tells us about her journey of discovering herself in a very gender defined world and what she discovered in Orthodoxy for herself. She also talks about what it means to be a LGBT+ person in the Orthodox church, what the challenges are, but also the possibilities.

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This podcast is part of the project “Let Us be Heard” and is partially financed by HMS

This podcast is made in partnership with The European Forum of LGBT Christian Groups

Holy Censorship or Mistranslation? – Love, Gender and Sexuality in the Bible (Book by Renato Lings)

Books, Podcast, Uncategorized, Video

Is it Censorship or Mistranslation? – Renato LIngs talks about how it all began. Many translators aren’t even aware how their mistranslation led to censorship. Renato also shares some examples of words in the bible that were mistranslated and what censorship we are facing even today. His approach to meet the Bible with questions and not answers is refreshing and inspiring.

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LINKS TO THE BOOKS:
(we didn’t want to give big companies the benefit of putting their link here, so we are giving a general link and encourage you to find alternative bookstores to rather support them)  
Holy Censorship or Mistranslation? Love, Gender and Sexuality in the Bible
Love Lost in Translation – Homosexuality and the Bible
Biblia y homosexualidad

Polyamory – Courage to Embrace What God has Joined Together

Personal Story, Podcast, Uncategorized, Video

Polyamory is still an obscure topic. When meeting someone polyamorous we might be scared to ask questions because they can sound weird and clumsy. I’m happy to have had two guests who were willing to answer all those weird and clumsy questions. Being polyamorous, they were open to share their own stories, as well as challenges, joys, hopes…

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LINKS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR BOOKS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH:
An online resource (and a book) about non-monogamy and polyamory by Franklin Veaux & Eve Rickert.  

‘Attached’ by Rachel Heller & Amir Levine, a book about attachment styles, how they work, how they originate and how they can be handled with sensitivity and compassion.  

Polyamory Weekly, a podcast by Cunning Minx.  

The Ethical Slut, A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love. A book by Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy.  

Multiamory podcast teaching communication and providing good and novel advice to better understand and handle relationships 

Book “Polysecure” that helps to navigate consensual non-monogamy with the help of attachment theory   

Free webinars of Jessica Fern, author of “Polysecure” that address emotions, triggers, transition from monogamy to polyamory   

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Being Asexual – Strangers in a World of Eroticism Short (The Invisible Letter A)

Personal Story, Podcast, Uncategorized, Video

Many letters of the LGBT+ acronym are still invisible. One of them is the letter A for Asexuality or As*. It is time to make people who identify with this letter more visible. Here is the beginning of including them and hearing one story but also information that helps us to better understand what this letter stands for and what it means. But this isn’t just about Asexuality as we learn also more about what it means to be Aromantic. As with many letters A is not just invisible, but there are also misconceptions that my guest is trying to dismantle. Enjoy.

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LINKS TO THE TOPIC:
AVEN – Asexual Visibility and Education Network
Arocalypse
Aurea

Podcasts:
“A OK” and “Sounds fake but ok”

BOOKS:
Angela Chen: Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
Julie Sondra Decker: The Invisible Orientation  

HAPPENINGS:
Ace Week – Last week of october
Aro Week – End of Feburary
International Asexuality Conference

SURVEY:
Ace Community Census

AZE JOURNAL

Coming Out of a Mixed-Orientation Marriage Part 1 (Getting in, Through and Out)

Personal Story, Podcast, Video

Being in a mixed-orientation marriage is hard. It comes with many consequences. It affects your psychological, but also physical health. Arno, Carol and Mihael share their experience of why they got married, their process of divorce and life after. Even today, people are in marriages with a person they are not physically and/or romantically attracted to. So, is there life after being in a mixed-orientation marriage and divorce?

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OTHER LINKS:
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BOOKS:
Our Family Outing
Four Stories by Rachel Held Evans
More to come…

Priceless Host – Who Is The Host?

Personal Story, Podcast, Uncategorized, Video

Once upon a time, there was a guest (Carol Shepherd) who wanted to interview the Host of The Priceless Podcast. It finally happened and you can listen to the result. Mihael was asking so many questions, listening to so many personal stories, it was time for him to spill the T. He is talking about his personal journey as well as the motivation for this podcast and how it all came to be.

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The organisation I work for: Intero centre

Hungary – The Hotspot of the EU (New Law on LGBTIQ “Propaganda”)

Podcast, Video

Heartbreaking news is reaching us from the eastern part of Europe. Though democracy has reached this part of Europe, it seems like change is a difficult process. Human rights are being disregarded and taken. This time it is about a law in Hungary where all LGBTIQ “propaganda” is forbidden for minors. For the first time, this caused an uproar in the western part of the EU. But what does that mean for LGBTIQ teens? How does it influence LGBTIQ people in Hungary? Is there hope?

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More on the situation in Hungary:
What happened and the Hungarian context?
A report by CNN about the law put in a wider Eastern European context
A more in-depth analysis of discrimination against LGBTQ people in Hungary
An article by ILGA-Europe’s director about the implications for Europe

Hungarian NGOs that are actively involved in protesting the new law and  helping people deal with it:
Háttér Society (Háttér means Background, it is the most active LGBTQ  rights NGO in Hungary, also good for updates about the situation)
Budapest Pride
Human rights NGOs, that also deal with other human rights issues besides LGBTQ:  
TASZ (Hungarian Civil Liberties Union)  
Hungarian Helsinki Committee

Gay Pastor – Losing My Religion (A Journey Rarely Talked About)

Personal Story, Podcast, Uncategorized, Video

We heard many journeys of people who were my guests about how they reconciled their sexuality and gender identity with faith. This is a different journey, one that took my guest from being a pastor to a life where faith doesn’t play a big role anymore. Though it is a topic often feard by people of faith, deconstruction of faith, becoming agnostic or even atheist is not uncommon. What better place to tackle it than the Priceless Podcast!

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LINKS:
The Priceless Podcast
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The European Forum of LGBT Christian Groups
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OTHER LINKS:
Worthaus podcast (German)
The Liturgists Podcast
The Mozaik group Hungary

James Alison – The Church is not Conservative but Dishonest and Frightened

Podcast, Uncategorized, Video

It is not so often we have the opportunity to meet an openly gay priest. Of course, the conversation got too interesting to keep it at one part interview. Even before we started to talk I was aware that this could become a two-part podcast. And so it did. It is time for the second part of the interview with James Alison. It starts with talking about pope Francis and the impression that he stands up for LGBT people and then it just seems like he changed his mind. There is a lot of work to do, but change won’t come from the top but from the people, the believers.

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Other links:
James Alison’s Webpage: http://jamesalison.com/
Books: http://jamesalison.com/en/books/

Richard Sipe: http://www.awrsipe.com/books.html
Frederick Martel, The Closet of the Vatican