Lectures. Workshops. Community-building.
Upcoming Events
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.
Our Sorcery Hour 2025
May 3-4, 2025
Online
Our Sorcery Hour is a low-cost conference organized and promoted for members of the LGBTQIA+ and other minoritized communities within the esoteric world.
Join Rev. Ron Padrón of White Rose Witching for the following workshop:
A LAVENDER PATH: HONORING QUEER ANCESTORS
Our queer ancestors can show up in many ways. They can be blood-relatives who were known to be queer. They can be historical figures who lived a life in open defiance of the norms of their time, or who lead a quieter existence with questions of their sexuality left to rumor and gossip. They can be mythic figures who embody themes outside the binary. This workshop will discuss ways to incorporate Queer Ancestor veneration into a spiritual practice. Participants will learn how to find Queer Ancestors in history, and various ways of connecting with them ranging from shrine-tending to developing a personal Queer Ancestor pilgrimage.
Ancestral Pathways Conference 2025: The Works of the Dark
October 31 - November 3, 2025
Online
The Ancestral Pathways Conference is a meeting point for diversity, it is a crossroads, between worlds and times, between our ancestors and ourselves.
Join Rev. Ron Padrón of White Rose Witching for the following workshop:
RISE UP: NECROMANCY AND SPIRITUAL ACTIVISM
The strongest way to resist oppression is in community, and the strongest communities are those that remember their dead. In this workshop, attendees will learn about the practice of spiritual activism as a tool for social change, particularly when it invokes the spirits and legacies of our ancestors. Through ancestral veneration and myth-making, attendees will learn how the dead have been used as weapons, protectors, and messengers in liberation movements. Attendees will be challenged to reflect on their own relationship with spirituality for social change, and asked to imagine how they can begin to ally themselves with those who have come before us.