June 24, 2026

what is my gender to a night sky?
my pronouns to an ocean who opens for me? 
~Isa Borgeson,  

Beloveds,

The lines above are the last two of Borgeson’s poem entitled “[last summer I folded my dresses into storage]”. Please do not read them as dismissing or minimizing the importance of gender and pronouns or the deeply human work of self-discovery and self-naming. (You can read the whole poem here, along with a note about it from the author.) What I read in this invocation of sky and sea is an assurance that we–however we identify ourselves–are above all part of a whole that is generously wide and welcoming. I hope we each feel a bit of that now and then; I think both we and the world depend on that.

Yours in all the pride and all the pronouns,
Rev. Denise
RevDenise@gnuuc.org

P.S. This evening TUUCAN* is sponsoring what looks like a good warmup for Sunday’s Pride Service: 
The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee is heading up a "comment campaign to oppose the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rule that would strip safety protections from federally funded shelters for transgender, nonbinary, two-spirit, and intersex people. The main action page can be found at www.UUSC.org/Pride-In-Action. TUUCAN is hosting an action hour on June 24th (tonight!) at 8 pm on Zoom. The action hour is a space for people to come together and find out about the comment process and then send in their response. (You can follow the UUSC link above to submit a comment on your own.) 

Here is the registration link for the TUUCAN action hour. Please share!
*TN UU Community Action Network, of which GNUUC is a founding member