Jonah Welch {they} :: modern trans mystic

Work

April 2024. Guest Lecturer, Texas State University - brought by Assoc. Prof. Jennifer Stob (Art History Dept.) to teach a class on trans spiritual history

June 2023. Guest Speaker - The Time of the Feminine Podcast by The Global Sisterhood

June 2023. Contributing Writer - 2024 Many Moons Lunar Planner by The Moon Studio

May 2023. Teacher:Transness as Sacrament”: an online lecture on trans-specific spiritual practices with Golden Dome School (download here)

April 2023. Guest Lecturer, Oberlin College: brought by Prof. Fernanda Villarroel Lamoza to give a public lecture to students, and teach a workshop for her course “The Feminine as Method”

April-August 2022. Stonekin: Mineral Healing Course Series: co-taught (with Olivia Pepper) two six-week intensive courses on the geologic origins, oral histories, mythologies, and medicinal uses of 12 minerals/gemstones

June 2022. Vow Destruction/Renewal: Officiant of a public ceremony to facilitate the dissolution of a couple’s vows of marriage made within the Mormon Church, followed by a renewal of vows to themselves & each other for their 20-year wedding anniversary.

June 2020-Nov 2022. Trans Rosary Circle: Founded and facilitated a weekly prayer circle for Trans & Gender Non-Conforming People

May 2022. Contributing Artist, custom spell/object created to bless & protect the entrance of Anna Campbell’s “Dress Rehearsal for a Dream Sequence” Participant, Inc. (NYC)

May 30, 2022. Mass for St. Jehanne D’Arc (Joan of Arc): co-facilitated with Olivia Pepper

May 2022. Contributing Artist - CHNGE.ORG - one of five designers for a clothing collection released on Trans Day of Visibility

October 2021. Interviewee: “Change or Die” with You’re Going to Die Podcast

Spring/Summer 2021. Organizer/Fundraising for the Trans People Are Sacred National Billboard Campaign with SaveArtSpace - raised $35,000 do pay 14 BIPOC Trans & GNC artists to design billboards on trans divinity and place them in a city of their choice.

July 2019. Contributing Artist, Save Art Space (“Trans People are Sacred” Billboard Detroit, MI) PRESS: Buzzfeed LGBTThe NeighborhoodsDetroit Free Press(spanish) Chromosoma X

June 2018. Photographer "Diaries of Trans Man- Refinery 29

March 2017-July 2018 Director of Photography We Are Transilient

Education

Summer 2021-present Master’s Student @ AIMC-Austin (Traditional Chinese Medicine)

2015-2018 Apprentice to Olivia Pepper

​2010-2014 University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.A. in Gender and Women's Studies, Minor in LGBT Studies, Feminist Theory)

ART

tell me why / I remain unmoved from the seat of my self / a river of wine, one hundred rivulets of smoke - like wind over stone / tell me why I am abused but / spit it back into my hand like a foreign body / why do I enter the archetypes I desire without fear / PAN / I am not afraid to have no form / but I cherish this one / how can it be okay for me to be all these things / at times it is too much to bear / Ale said the trade off for the freedom is the pain / the balm for the pain is the indescribable magic of being who we are / the closeness to spirit / the many blessings of our character / you have to be resilient to live this life / nectar drips from the back of our throats / i eat darkness and make light / a Hail Mary / falling over the bomb as it blows / indestructible

tell me why / I remain unmoved from the seat of my self / a river of wine, one hundred rivulets of smoke - like wind over stone / tell me why I am abused but / spit it back into my hand like a foreign body / why do I enter the archetypes I desire without fear / PAN / I am not afraid to have no form / but I cherish this one / how can it be okay for me to be all these things / at times it is too much to bear / Ale said the trade off for the freedom is the pain / the balm for the pain is the indescribable magic of being who we are / the closeness to spirit / the many blessings of our character / you have to be resilient to live this life / nectar drips from the back of our throats / i eat darkness and make light / a Hail Mary / falling over the bomb as it blows / indestructible

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