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Upcoming Events
Bewitching Booklesque: A Book Launch Cabaret for “Queer Rites”
January 12, 2025
5:00pm EST
Mobtown Ballroom, Baltimore, MD
This book launch party is anything but chardonnay and polite boredom-- it's a rowdy celebration full of burlesque, drag, and sideshow!
Enfys J. Book (they/them), Pagan author of the forthcoming Queer Rites: A Magickal Grimoire to Honor Your Milestones with Pride from Llewellyn Worldwide, joins forces with DMV-based burlesque producer and performer Diva Darling (Smut Slam Baltimore & DC, The SpeakTeasy, Tiresias' Tits ) to throw a launch party cabaret that's witchy, queer, magical, and sexy af.
A star-studded lineup of some of the region's finest queer variety performers interpret the themes of the book through burlesque, sideshow, drag, circus arts, and vocals. Before and after the show, mingle in your fabulous finery, enjoy food and drinks, and get your copy of Queer Rites signed.
Mobtown Ballroom is physically accessible, and the show will be ASL interpreted thanks to the sponsorship of White Rose Witching .
Sana, Sana, Colita De Rana: Intersecting Latinx And Pagan Identities
March 27-30, 2025
Sacred Space Conference
Towson, MD
Join Wendy Mata, Ivo Dominguez Jr., Solomon Pakal, Jesse Hathaway Diaz, and Ron Padrón for a panel discussion exploring their experiences navigating the American pagan landscape as Latinx practitioners. Topics will include: How do we carve out identities in a country that is not the one of our roots? Why does cultural diversity matter for the future of Paganism and the occult? What does it mean to be “ni de aqui ni de alla”? How do our syncretic practices both reinforce colonial hegemony and rebel against it from within?
Building Sustainable Cross-Pagan Communities
March 27-30, 2025
Sacred Space Conference
Towson, MD
How do we build welcoming, sustainable, and resilient communities? How do we create spaces that are intentionally anti-racist, queer/trans-affirming, accessible, and culturally competent? Join Wendy Mata, J.R. Mascaro, Irene Glasse, and Katrina Messenger in a panel discussion moderated by Ron Padrón where they will share insights from founding and running large cross-pagan communities both in-person and online. This talk will share challenges, lessons learned, best practices, and tools that attendees can use in cultivating their local communities.
Queer History Teach-In
April 19, 2025
12-4pm EST
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Frederick
History shared cannot be erased. Join Ron Padrón for an afternoon of ritual, speakers, and storytellers discussing LGBTQ+ historical figures, protests, and cultural contributions. This event helps ensure that together we can prevent the LGBTQ+ community and our history from being forced back into the closet.
Schedule and speakers TBA.