Viewed and Voiced Returns for Its Second Year: Centering Gender-Diverse Voices of Faith
Each year on March 31, communities around the world observe Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV)—a day to celebrate the lives, resilience, and contributions of trans and gender-diverse people. For faith communities, it is also an opportunity to reflect on how we affirm, protect, and amplify voices that have too often been pushed to the margins.
In 2025, the Association of Welcoming & Affirming Baptists (AWAB) launched Viewed and Voiced, a digital publication created to uplift the voices and creative expressions of gender-diverse people within AWAB Member Churches. The inaugural edition featured a powerful collection of artwork, poetry, sermons, music, reflections, and testimony created by trans and nonbinary contributors across the network.
What emerged was not only a celebration of creativity, but a public witness: gender-diverse people are not only present in our churches—they are leaders, theologians, artists, and ministers whose faith continues to shape our communities.
As Viewed and Voiced returns for its second year, AWAB is building on this foundation with a renewed commitment to expanding representation, deepening visibility, and centering voices most impacted by erasure and harm.
The 2026 edition will once again be released on Trans Day of Visibility (March 31) and will feature creative and theological work by gender-diverse people—including trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming contributors—within AWAB Member Churches. AWAB is also inviting submissions that highlight gender-diverse and trans-centered ministries led by or partnered with our congregations.
In many faith spaces, gender-diverse people are still told—explicitly or implicitly—that they must choose between their identity and their faith. Viewed and Voiced offers a different story: one rooted in dignity, belonging, and the sacred worth of every person.
Submissions for the 2026 edition of Viewed and Voiced are open through March 15, allowing time for careful curation and design ahead of the March 31 release.
As AWAB looks toward this year’s publication, we remain committed to ensuring that gender-diverse voices in our churches are truly viewed and voiced—not only on TDOV, but throughout the year.
Learn more or submit at awab.org/TDOV.
Check out last year’s edition below: