Putting on a Coat of Colours
This is the podcast Putting on a Coat of Colours. This podcast is a Community Storytelling project of Coat of Colours, a council of Cathedral of Hope, United Church of Christ, in Dallas, TX. Our hope is that this podcast will make room for persons of color and their white allies, who are both gay and straight…•To tell of their joys and frustrations•To tell of their sense of belonging and their sense of exclusion•To celebrate our uniqueness to the larger community and celebrate our commonalities•To invite members of the larger community to join in this purpose
Putting on a Coat of Colours
Episode 10 - Allies
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Thomas Riggs
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Season 1
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Episode 10
In the third part of the podcast conversation between Julie and Kasandra, Julie asks Kasandra what she thinks it means to be a LGBTQIA+ ally. Kasandra talks about her non-binary stepchild, being a straight ally in a predominately gay church, and how she can be useful in her church community, applying some her same learnings about race. In Kasandra asking Julie what it means to her to be an ally to black people, Julie talks about the intersectionality of being black and transgender. Finally, they talk about importance of extending grace and intentionality when having conversations about race, gender, sexual orientation and all the letters.