Asta Mao was birthed three years ago after their previous alter ego, Qrystal Reyna, sacrificed herself to the fire of creation. Asta Mao is a performance drag artist, focusing her performances in identity politics and social justice. She's also done stupid stuff in drag involving Nutella and a giant dildo. Asta's path to spirituality was found in the rooms of recovery. Her other alter ego, James, extends this spirituality by becoming a Glide member and has sung in the internationally renowned Glide Ensemble.
* the interview refers to a film and a performance piece you can watch by clicking the following links. Chinx (the film), Asta Mao - #blacktranslivesmatter This is AmeriKKKa: Childish Gambino vs. KOMSOON vs. Hughes
a conversation about Drag & Spirituality with hostess a queer chaplain, B0NNi33 Vi0L3T (AKA Duane Quintana) sponsored by GLIDE & Glide Pride Team
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Project Overview
The GLIDE Pride Team & GLIDE Memorial Church in presenting the legendary B0NNi33 Vi0L3T in the second installment of her series of talk show style interviews and culminating “Sunday Third Celebration.” Featuring different San Francisco Bay Area drag artists “Drag and Spirituality” starting on July 19th , 2020 and culminated on August 16th , 2020. Interviews took place every Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday at 7:11PM PST on GLIDE's Facebook LIVE.
In each episode, Bonnie Violet, a queer chaplain, guides a conversation surrounding Drag and Spirituality, with drag artists of a variety of spiritual experience, gender, age, race, sexual orientation, size, ability, and styles of drag. Bonnie and GLIDE would like to showcase the intersectionality between drag and spirituality- that neither are mutually exclusive- and to integrate both the individual and the people into ONEness.
In a final performance. Six drag artists share a piece of their spiritual practice in the form of a song, dance, prayer, and other rituals.
a video of this podcast can be found at a queer chaplain on YouTube.
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a queer chaplain
a queer chaplain will guide you in tending to spiritual wounds, to transform hurt into healing.
