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Week 2 – Gender

Exploring the intersectional experience of disability and neurodiversity, gender, mental health, sexuality, race and poverty. Speaking: -Molly Boot (they/them) is an autistic theologian, musician, and ordinand at St Matthew’s Bethnal Green. They write on mysticism, art, gender and sexuality, bringing together medieval wisdom for modern life. Molly is a regular presenter for BBC Radio 4 Religion and Ethics, and loves conducting, singing, and playing the violin in their free time. -Alex Clare-Young (they/them/Alex) is a pioneer minister in the United Reformed Church with a particular call towards working alongside those marginalised in church and society for social justice and equity for all. Alex’s lived experiences as a transmasculine non-binary person who is multiply neurodivergent and disabled inspires this call.

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