[image description: two pale pink squares with images and text on them. The first has two blue banners reading “ ‘It’s an honor to be trans’ - Andy is a queer Quaker” and “Blessed Are the Binary Breakers, a multifaith podcast of trans stories.” A photo of Andy is in the middle: they are a white bigender person with buzzed orange hair, glasses, and a striped shirt and pink jacket on. They are smiling downwards toward the ground, looking at something out of view.
In the second square is a self portrait Andy painted in which they are sitting on a yellow bed with a potted plant and a painting of Marsha P Johnson behind them. They’re wearing jeans and a gray shirt that says “boi” in small print with an orange shirt underneath. Around this image is a quote from Andy reading, “we are created in the image of God. God is all genders, God is trans. …My nonbinary gender is actually really holy, because...it embodies God's principles of being all of these different things that come together in love.” / end id]
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Episode 26 of Blessed Are the Binary Breakers is up!!
Visit this webpage for links to where to listen + a transcript.
Andy Thornton (they / he, age 23, England) is an autistic artist and scholar, excitingly gendered, and passionate about expanding our inclusion within faith spaces and queer spaces ever wider. They became a Christian at 16 before realizing they were bi and trans, and despite queerphobic messages from church leaders, Andy received only messages of affirmation from God. Thus their love for a sassy, queer Jesus grew, and they eventually found a home in Quakerism, with its radical equality of all ages and genders and emphasis on activism.
Find Andy and his art and writing online:
@humansatsuma & @lesgetbetter on Instagram
medium.com/@andykt3 - blog
andythornton.work/ and behance.net/humansatsuma - art portfolios
