31.2 Tips, Instructions, Templates

Queer Affirming

Deanna Sophia Danger (they/them) is a Certified Insight Meditation Teacher & Mentor, queer Dharma practitioner, social impact organizer, retired professional performance artist, and WEAVER. Deanna’s approach to the Dharma finds ground within the intersection of spirituality and social impact. In their full time work, they are the Systems Change & Healing Justice Facilitator for the St. Louis Queer+ Support & Helpline (SQSH), where they are also a member of the STARLING Somatic Healers Collective. Deanna supports the St. Louis community as the facilitator of “STL QUEER SANGHA: You Can Sit With Us,” a monthly, inclusive Insight meditation group and community gathering for all LGBTQIA+ folks and co-conspirators, cultivating a path of Spiritual Solidarity, and an Advisory Circle Member at Empowered Spaces, a trauma-aware, holistic, healing collective. Deanna is accredited to teach Insight meditation through The Awareness Training Institute and the Greater Good Science Center of the University of California at Berkeley, and accredited as a Mindfulness Mentor through Banyan (formerly Cloud Sangha). Deanna’s guiding teachers are internationally recognized authors, Theravada Buddhist meditation teachers, and psychologists, Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. Through an accessible, relatable, creatively expressive and engaged praxis of Spiritual Solidarity, Deanna is motivated by co-cultivating embodiment of liberation at the cellular and global levels. As a working class, queer, nonbinary, neurodiverse & chronically ill, IPV + trauma survivor, and former sex worker Deanna is passionate about weaving webs of support that take interdependence from transactional to reciprocal. Suitable for all experience levels & identities, Deanna’s interactive support meets you where you are. Their facilitation offers an intrinsically anti-oppressive, trauma-aware and neurocognitive-aware foundation supporting you to hone your self-agency, dissolve shame & self-blame, move from dissociation to embodiment, and increase your access to joy, pleasure and felt-sense belonging.

Website - Meditation Substack Meditation & Mental Health Resource List STL Queer Sangha: You Can Sit With Us

deanna@deannadanger.com

17.2 Language Access Services (Translation & Interpretation)

21.1 Education & Advocacy: General Resources

21.2 Educational Resources for Allies to Marginalized Populations

23.1 Disability Resources – General

28.3 Community-Building & Spaces

29.1 Social Groups & Events

31.2 Tips, Instructions, Templates

We do ASL interpreting services for lectures, meetings, educational settings, medical situations, legal situations, rallies, performances, and more. We are creating and providing workshops/trainings that we offer to businesses/teams/organizations, etc. on how to schedule interpreting services (through us or other companies), how to work with Deaf folks as well as interpreters (the do's and do not's if you will), but also bringing in trainings for how to use inclusive language (with Deaf folks or not), dealing with mental health (this will be done with a mental health professional), and so much more!

1-618-920-5414

· General

xane.kimber@gmail.com

7.6 Other Transition Services

7.7 Information on LGBTQIA+ Health

21.1 Education & Advocacy: General Resources

21.2 Educational Resources for Allies to Marginalized Populations

25.2 Parenting Support – General

28.1 Support Groups

31.1 Resource Guides & Centers

31.2 Tips, Instructions, Templates

As a public speaker and LGBTQ+ inclusion consultant, I regularly facilitate trans and queer 101, 201, and 301 sessions to workplaces, hospitals, schools, nonprofits, and families (among other categories of organizations) internationally and would be thrilled to deliver a welcoming and comprehensive training for your group. Additionally, I offer free coaching to parents and families of trans and queer youth in the evenings and would be happy to support you however I can.

Website

bgtranstalks@gmail.com

A Queer STL Resource Database

Deanna Sophia Danger

The Willow Tree Project

Ben Greene (BG Trans Talks)