a queer chaplain

a queer chaplain

✨ Holding space. Sharing stories. Sparkling the sacred. ✨ Hosted by Bonnie Violet Quintana — a trans femme genderqueer spiritual drag artist and digital chaplain — A Queer Chaplain podcast is where healing meets glitter, spirituality meets skepticism, and the sacred is reclaimed, one story at a time. This podcast is a soft landing for the tender, the curious, the ex-religious, the spiritual-ish, the seekers, the creators, the joyful, the recovering, and the beautifully complicated. Each episode weaves together interviews, reflections, and spiritual drag — pulling threads from across Bonnie Violet’s work as a community organizer, podcaster, and chaplain. Whether we’re talking about gender blessings, queer grief, trans joy, drag as ministry, or the awkward holiness of just being human — this is a space for honest conversation, healing possibilities, and connection that doesn’t require belief — just curiosity. Expect episodes that dip into: ✨ Stories from LGBTQ2SIA+ folks healing from and reimagining spiritual life 🎭 Sacred drag performances and reflections 🧘♀️ Queer recovery, rituals, and rites of passage 🎤 Highlights from Bonnie’s many projects like Trans Joy Boise, Drag & Spirituality, Cut & Uncut, and more 💒 Spiritual services — from weddings to memorials to drag blessings — and the radical ways we honor each other This is your digital sanctuary — with rhinestones . “She’s not here to fix or convert — just to accompany, witness, and help people feel more connected and more themselves.” 🎧 Tune in wherever you get your podcasts. 👀 Watch on YouTube at @aqueerchaplain on all socials. 💌 Join the sparkle at aqueerchaplain.org

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June 21, 2024 76 mins

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This is an unedited audio recording of my conversation with Kathryn Post at Religions News Service - I was on a call with her via speaker and I recorded on my computer, she was aware of this and actually instructed me on how to do it, as you will hear in the beginning.

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Here is the link to the final article
https://religionnews.com/2024/06/20/drag-worship-where-queer-faith-and-perfo...

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Here is the link to the full program.
https://youtu.be/4vhIQ2v3q7E?si=9J1oE4CafoaKWona

PANEL DISCUSSION
Joey Morelli, author of Authentic Selves
Liliana Rauer
Bonnie Violet

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"You see of late I have been really challenged with feeling loved, supported and cared for by my family and I think in feel so deeply like this in this moment and time, a moment and time that I feel like I need them more than I have ever needed them, it paints over all the ways my family has shown up for me of the years. It doesn’t allow me to experience these things again, still, to let these moments of my ...

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January 20, 2024 12 mins

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I have been contemplating it for years and now is the time. 

I started writing my book last night, here is a bit of the intro from my soon to be book titled "transmission" a spiritual autobiography. 

xoxo

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January 7, 2024 26 mins

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TW: SA, METH, RECOVERY

Reflecting a bit on the role of darkness in life and what to do with it. Wrestle it, embrace it, learn from it, extinguish it, or ...

I didn't initially think I would be discussing my experience with meth but it was one of the first times I allowed myself to live in the darkness that I had been trying so hard to avoid. 

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January 5, 2024 35 mins

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"When I stopped chasing the glitter and spent some time in the dark." - Bonnie Violet

Audio Journal entry for January 5, 2024, reflection on glitter ie light, sparkle, passion, purpose, femininity, soft strength & the dark ie fear, scarcity, depression, unworthy, death, isolation, loneliness

Would love to hear what you think about this entry? Do you like it? wanna hear more?

xo...

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I was invited to offer a reflection, this is what happened.

🦋🙏🏻🕯 May we open our mind to build new strength, 

receive knowledge in our hearts 

and wisdom in our body - 

Help me to set aside my anxieties and allow me to be a channel 

Allow me to speak what you would have me speak for the greater good

📜 Psalms 42 1-3 ESV

tAs a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.

 2   My soul thirst...

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a multi-faith "drag sanctuary" - praise and worship service in collaboration with @aqueerchaplain  & @boiseuufellowship

August 20th, 2023
at 10am located at 6200 N Garrett St Boise, ID 83714
FULL SERVICE
    • "Drag Sanctuary" - Drag Queens Sermon
   • "Drag Sanctuary" - Drag Queens & DragKing Lead Church 

Sermon
Bonnie Violet is a trans f...

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🎙 Say Something with Bonnie Violet, a queer chaplain

Join me LiVE or Watch on YouTube later @aqueerchaplain
or Listen wherever you listen to podcasts also @aqueerchaplain

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Join me each week as I attempt to say something. These somethings will be a time for story telling, a time for experience share and whatever comes out of my mouth.

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** pulled from facebook - my apologies for quality of video & sound
#pride #dragqueen #grace 

Bonnie Violet is a trans femme genderqueer spiritual drag artist and digital chaplain. YouTuber & Host of a queer chaplain podcast with such series as Drag & Spirituality, TranSpirit & Faith Leaders. Co-host of Splintered Grace with her conservative christian aunt & At the CCC recovery podcast...

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  🎙 Say Something with Bonnie Violet, a queer chaplain

🎤 Say Something Sundays at 333pm MST
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Grace is as Grace Does 🏳️‍🌈 Pride Edition
June 11, 2023 @ 333pm MST on LiVESTREAM

Forrest Gump replied “Stupid is as stupid does”, meaning that a person should be judged by their actions, not their appearance. So what about Grace? can you just insert Grace where ignorance resides.
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🎤 Say Something Sundays at 333pm MST
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Why Visibility Matters : Pride Edition
June 4, 2023 @ 333pm MST on LiVESTREAM

"I don't have a problem with LGBTQIA+ people just stop shoving it down my throat. I can't even drink a Bud Light, go to Target or watch the Little Mermaid without you interrupting it with your woke agenda."

Statements like the above il...

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🎤 Say Something Sundays at 333pm MST
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Healing Through Grief & Loss

"I define grief as the natural normal response to something being taken from you without your permission." - Kaylee Kron
🎙 https://www.eatingrecoverycenter.com/podcast/63-healing-through-grief-loss

My Spiritual Recovery Story thru drag
https://youtu.be/f9-PGmWyuJU

My Transitio...

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🎤 Say Something Sundays at 333pm MST
Season 2 - Episode 6 - This Is Where I Belong

“You are only free when you realize you belong no place—you belong every place—no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great,” Maya Angelou

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A queer-led, trauma-informed workshop on how to collaborate with the Universe/Spirit/Divine.

Many of us grew up with unhelpful or problematic ideas about "God" that took away our agency or left us feeling unworthy. Prayer was like an algorithm we were supposed to perfect.

And outside of religious institutions, if you're looking for spiritual direction, it can be difficult to know where...

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💭🦋👑 Thoughts of a Transgender Drag Queen
🎤 Say Something Sundays at 333pm MST
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Recovery from Addiction

The opposite of addiction is connection.

Hear my experience, strength and hope from addiction as I celebrate 2 recovery milestones. (May 5, 2018 - May 10, 2008)

To be human is to be an addict? Where is our current consumption levels?

Recovery Reso...

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💭🦋👑 Thoughts of a Transgender Drag Queen
🎤 Say Something Sundays at 333pm MST
Season 2 - Episode 4

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Join me each week as I attempt to say something. These somethings will be a time for story telling, a time for experience share and whatever comes out of my mouth.

I will commit to go LIVE each week at 333pm MST for 33 minutes or less to SAY SOMETHING. WATCH live each week o...

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💭🦋👑 Thoughts of a Transgender Drag Queen
🎤 Say Something Sundays at 333pm MST
Season 2 - Episode 3

💊💊 2 Years of Hormones
I reflect and share my experience with hormones over the past two years. The physical. The mental. The Spiritual.  So grateful to have had access to my medication much of the last couple of years ❣️❣️❣️

Join me each week as I attempt to say something. These som...

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Season 2 - Episode 2

💭 In the Comments
I have been impacted a bit more than usual by what is being left or said "in the comments" across all my social platforms. I do my best to try to "pay these no mind" and I am very curious as to the why behind the comments and the perceived seeking to comment. A conversation about the current culture wars...

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