This You Tube video has captured a lot of people’s hearts.
Sally, of the Queer Spiritual Spaces team wonders
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At the end of July I visited Findhorn to do the last of the interviews for the Queer Spiritual Spaces project. The community was in full summer mode with a garden party and an open day being held on Sunday afternoon.
Heather White, as her avatar, Rhombus Gatter, interviews Jubilant Quackenbush, a resident of Second Life (SL). SL is an online virtual world, and people participate in it as avatars they chose and create themselves, which makes it a fascinating site for examining questions about spirituality, sexuality, gender, and embodiment. The interviewer, whose “real life” (RL) embodiment is as a conventionally gendered woman, participates in SL as a male avatar with dragonfly wings. His conversation partner, Jubi, is the SL female avatar of a RL transwoman. When this picture was taken, Jubi was explaining to Rhombus that she started participating in SL after seeing beaches like this one: “I thought any ‘game’ where people put time and energy into creating a beautiful and relaxing environment is the game for me.”