Wild Gender Retreat

What do creatures, plants, landforms and waterways have to teach us about stealth and fabulousness? How does the more than human world invite us to authentic gender expression? Often people with non-cis gender identities are pushed into urban spaces and find rural and wilderness settings dangerous, or we are told who we are or what we do is unnatural. This is an opportunity to reconnect with and reclaim wilderness as a queer space, to explore what the species, landforms, and elements of territory have to teach and share with us and revel in the goodness of our bodies.

Retreat content will draw from the work of Queer Nature and Contemplative Ecology, Forest Schools and the Wild Church movement as we learn from creature teachers, craft altars to our transcestors, eat food from the land, practice radical rest and play, and deepen our connection with this sacred place.

Kirkridge is a Christian retreat center that is used by people of many and no faiths. There is no expectation that participants have any faith affiliation. Wild Gender a land-based retreat for trans, gender queer, non-binary, 2 Spirit and other gender diverse adults and self-directed youth.

In order to have a balance of participants of various identities and avoid patterns of domination we are asking folks to apply rather than simply register, we will be holding a number of spots for BIPOC participants.