“GlitterBlessed: Blessings for Queer and Trans Lives“
edited by Sean Neil-Barron
Foothills Unitarian Church, 2025, 104 pages

At A Glance: “Glitter Blessed” is a fierce and tender collection of blessings offering sacred language for queer and trans lives shaped by resistance, joy, grief, and becoming.

Overview: “Glitter Blessed: Blessings for Queer and Trans Lives” offers words for moments when survival itself is an act of faith. Written in a time when queer and trans existence is increasingly legislated against and silence is framed as safety, the book refuses both erasure and apology, affirming that queer and trans people are already whole and already holy.

Edited by queer author and spiritual writer Sean Neil-Barron, the collection gathers blessings written by queer and trans people for queer and trans people. These are not generic affirmations but intentional, grounded words shaped by lived experience, offering sacred language for bodies marked by change, moments of breaking and endurance, celebrations of gender euphoria and late coming out, quiet tenderness, intimacy, and the long struggle for collective survival.

Organized for intuitive use rather than linear reading, “Glitter Blessed” invites readers to find what they need when they need it, whether courage, defiance, tenderness, or joy. Rooted in ancestral memory and communal resistance, the book reminds its readers of a truth often denied but never erased: queer and trans people were never trespassers. They have belonged from their first breath.

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