The St. Charles Center for Faith + Action
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At The Center we create spaces for people of all faiths to learn, unlearn and act; building a community grounded in equity and empathy.
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Learning Over Lunch Webinar
Never Again is Now: Learning from LGBTQ+ History to Fight for Our Future
Join us for an exploration of Holocaust history to establish context for understanding challenges today. We'll identify the top 10 key lessons for understanding the Nazi persecution of LGBTQ+ people and its relevance for today. Attendees will also be equipped with action items that will help them confront queerphobia and transphobia in their own communities.
Dr. Jake Newsome is an award-winning scholar of German and American LGBTQ+ history and the Founder and President of the Pink Triangle Legacies Project, which honors the Nazis’ LGBTQ+ victims and combats homophobia and transphobia through education and advocacy. He is the author of Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust, tracing the pink triangle’s transformation into a global symbol of pride. Jake has been featured in outlets like The Washington Post and in popular podcasts like Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness. He has been invited by the French, UK, and US governments to speak on LGBTQ+ history’s urgent lessons today.
Date: March 25th
Start Time: 12:00 P.M. Central
Solitary Gardens
Solitary Gardens Program
What is a Solitary Garden? Solitary Gardens both directly and metaphorically ask us to imagine a landscape without prisons. We both directly and metaphorically ask us to imagine a landscape without prisons. Solitary Gardens transforms solitary confinement cells into living garden beds. The beds are designed and remotely gardened by incarcerated collaborators, known as Solitary Gardeners and are tended by community members on the outside.
“The movement of the Spirit of God in human hearts often calls them...to dare a deed that challenges and to kindle a hope that inspires.”
Donate to the Center
As you consider your gifts throughout the year, we hope you will include the St. Charles Center for Faith + Action. Each donation helps create a community that includes less incarceration and more healing.
Our Commitment to Justice
The Center embraces movements for justice and liberation, partnering with leaders from BIPOC communities. We also affirm the following Land Acknowledgment: We acknowledge that we are on Bulbancha, now called New Orleans. Bulbancha, which means place of many tongues, unceded land of the Chitimacha, the Houma, the Chahta, Yakni (Choctaw), the Atakapa Ishak Chawasha, and all Indigenous peoples of this region.