About Us
WE MOVE THE MARGINS TO THE CENTER
We keep the lived experiences of people who are marginalized at the center of everything we do, and illuminate the intersections between sexuality, gender, race, class, ability, age, and more.
WE CENTER LOVE, HEALING, AND CARE
We are working to create a world where people genuinely care for each other, and we also know that dismantling oppression will take deep love and healing, so we infuse these values into everything we do.
WE TRANSFORM HEARTS, NOT JUST MINDS
We know the forces of injustice will not be defeated with facts, reason, or new vocabularies, so we teach concrete practices that transform hearts and lead to authentic, embodied transformation.
Our Backstory
The Transforming Hearts Collective began as a dream and a vision discussed around a kitchen table. We dreamed of a co-created organization focused on nurturing all it touched—one that integrated anti-oppression and communal care into the core of its beginnings and evolutions. We talked about the call each of us feels to resource queer and trans resilience and help faith communities practice radical welcome and dismantle oppression in all of its forms. So we set out to support each other living out this call!
Our Mission
Our mission is to nurture faith-rooted transformation that helps queer and trans people (particularly people of color, disabled people, people living with HIV, and other folks with multiple marginalized identities) to survive and thrive.
We resource vulnerable queer and trans people in ways that support survival, healing, and resilience while simultaneously equipping faith groups and faith leaders to be forces for LGBTQ justice in the public square and in houses of worship.
We claim faith as a tool for personal and collective transformation and liberation.
Our Practices
The work we do as a collective has four key practices that overlap and inform each other.
