Dear UUFC:
This coming Tuesday, March 31, is International Transgender Day of Visibility. Here at UU Fellowship of Corvallis, what can that mean? To begin to explore an answer, I offer these words from Nat Esparza, who serves on the staff of the Unitarian Universalist Association in the Southern Region:
If our communities are acts of creation—who are we imagining into them?
And who are we leaving out?
If that question makes you uncomfortable—good. Discomfort is where change begins.
Whatever you do next, let it be real.
Let it be rooted in love.
Let it be imperfect, human, and ongoing.
Because that’s what true community care looks like.
That’s what liberation demands.
We’ve been visible. Now it’s time to be heard, to be trusted, and to shape what comes next.
In the end, we all want the same thing—
To feel less alone.
To be seen.
To know that our stories, our lives, and our futures truly matter.
I encourage you to read Nat’s whole article here.
And let’s keep seeing, listening, feeling, living…together.
In peace,
Rev. Alex