Instead of constantly testing the boundary of what femininity allows and what masculinity forbids, our nonbinary siblings are attempting to inhabit a third place. They are gendernauts, stepping outside of the binary world to boldly go where no one has gone before.

Rev. Stephani Skalak is a hospital chaplain working for Providence Health System. She was the Intern Minister at the UUC at Willamette Falls in Oregon City for two years. Before that, she spent 15 years as a film-maker who taught media literacy and documentary film production to youth in first San Francisco and then Portland, OR. She is a co-founder of the Portland Women’s Film Festival (POW Film Fest). Stephani has experience in small group ministry within the UU tradition and was a board member of the European Unitarian Universalists. She has a Master of Divinity from Meadville Lombard Theological School and a BA in International Relations from The American University. She lives in Portland, with her love, Mark, and their two young adult children, Ukiah and Seneca.

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