Glitter at the Threshold:

Queer Deathcare, Ritual & Radical Preparedness

Death Disco Series

Join us for a 2-hour Pride Month workshop exploring queer and trans deathcare as a sacred practice of love, protection, remembrance, and community care.

Together, we will honor Pride as both celebration and remembrance: a legacy rooted in resistance, grief, chosen family, and the refusal to let our beloved dead be erased.

This workshop will blend practical deathcare literacy with ritual and creativity. Participants will learn about end-of-life planning, chosen family care, gender-affirming deathcare wishes, and accessible tools for protecting our bodies, names, stories, and communities.

We will also create a community altar, craft personal threshold cards, and begin building a take-home Queer Deathcare Toolkit filled with reflection prompts, planning resources, and care-centered worksheets.

Come as you are. Bring your grief, your glitter, your questions, your beloved, and your desire to care for our people more deeply.

All are welcome. Queer and trans community centered.

About Jerry

Jerry Romero Jr., Ph.D. is a queer scholar, educator, community organizer, and Resident End-of-Life Doula at ABODE Contemplative Care for the Dying. Their work bridges queer/trans studies, necropolitics, deathcare, ritual, and community education, with a deep commitment to honoring chosen family, embodied dignity, and culturally responsive care at the threshold of life and death. Jerry is also the founder of the SATX Queer Deathcare Collective, where they create spaces for death literacy, grief work, ancestral remembrance, and queer/trans-centered care in San Antonio.