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Honoring Altar Traditions with Mariah Romero of Fruits of Her Labor

We began discussing how altar building can be a form of healing and connecting with our spiritual selves and ancestors. This year has brought so much challenge, loss, and spiritual attack, that we both felt that perhaps our community would need this spiritual form of healing.

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He Said, She Said, They Said: Why Gender Pronouns Matter

We love Pride Month: rainbows, inclusion, parades, and all.  And being all up in our feel-goods about it last week, we were a little shook to see the Catholic Church officially reject the notion of gender fluidity. The institution claims that a culture-wide “disorientation” is trying to cancel out the “natural difference between man and woman.” However, the church’s “guide” to the “most debated questions around human sexuality” ignores one crucial fact: gender is a social concept, not a biological or religious one.

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MONSTERS:: Art & Multimedia Exhibit

May was Mental Health Awareness Month. This year at YBH, we wanted to acknowledge this by participating in a community event that tackled the subject of mental health in a creative and meaningful way. We were proud to join forces with Ramel Wallace and Daniel Koestner of The Holyfield to present Monsters, a multi-media exhibition exploring the manifestation of monsters in our lives and the transformations that are possible when we “turn our monsters into masterpieces.”

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SAAM WEEK AT YBH: FILM SCREENING of THE MASK YOU LIVE IN

DOCUMENTARY FILM TO SCREEN ON TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2019

SPONSORED BY: YOU BELONG HERE, THE ROC SHOP, AND RAYGUN CREATIVE

The Mask You Live In follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity. Written, produced and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the film premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2015.

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