Episode 78: Let’s Discuss Transgender Spirituality with Jonah Welch
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Jonah tells their journey of being born as a female, not liking the things they were supposed to have interest in and never feeling socially welcome spending time with girls. On a broader social scale, they just wanted to be comfortable as a kid. Their early childhood was couched in nature, going to the country and running around in gym shorts. This led them to a journey of advocating for girls and their freedom to do whatever they wanted without gender norms as well as their life’s work of being a modern trans mystic and artist devoted to
Jonah is a year-old interdisciplinary transgender artist doing work with an academic backing in queer theory, trans-feminist theory, and psychoanalytic theory. He makes rosaries and is a modern trans mystic, visual artist, abstract comic, devotional poet, student of medicine, among many others. They are our first trans guest and we couldn’t be more excited to have them in the podcast.
What we discuss:
02:23 – Introducing Jonah
05:02 – Jonah’s Story
11:02 – Growing Up
17:55 – Treating Boy Bodies and Girl Bodies Differently
20:09 – Body Dysmorphia and Trauma
24:22 – The Process of Taking Hormones
27:27 – The Medicine and Energies
29:51 – Changing of the Body
33:29 – The Miracle of Jonah’s Name
36:30 – The Christian Tradition
41:57 – Divine Androgyny
47:25 – Spirits, Aliens, and the Extraterrestrial World
50:30 – Ignorance Towards the LGBTQIA+ Community
54:53 – Surgeries for Young Children
57:44 – Liberation and Magic in the Pain of Surgery
1:00:41 – Why Did the Creator Create Trans People?
1:04:21 – The Fun Stuff
1:06:53 – Jonah in Behalf of the Divine Mother
1:08:25 – Where to Find Jonah
1:09:42 – Bonus Content
You can find Jonah at his official website, Patreon, and on Instagram.
Bible by Jonah Welch
Crown of Horn by Jonah Welch
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