Hello beloved listeners, this is Adrienne.

You've heard me on here speaking about the fact that I got commissioned from musical

O.S.F. Ashland, and one of the team members, the person I'm really collaborating with as a composer, a ranger, helping me really think through this thing, is a brilliant artist named Troy Anthony Burton, and as we were in the planning process for the musical, Troy reminded me that one of his great works was

something called the revival that he's been putting on in New York, and he sent me a video of it. I thought it was incredible, and then he was like, you know, if you want to give the sermon at the one this year, you can.

I was over the moon, and excited and nervous, you know. It's a big deal show, it's incredible music, and it was a huge honor to be asked to give the sermon.

This revival happens on Juneteenth each year, and it honors both Juneteenth and Pride Month, and I got to give this sermon, wearing a dress that Whitney Miro made me for the event.

That all white, pastoral robe. It was completely see-through with pasties on, it was everything. So, we wanted to share the sermon with you, we hope that it gives you some medicine, and helps to extend both Juneteenth and Pride Month, the feelings that we feel of loving ourselves in all these ways, let it extend through every year, every part of the year.

Yeah, enjoy it. Here is Troy Anthony Burton's revival. All of it honors the South of Chicago's quote, it is our duty to fight for our freedom, it is our duty to win.

We must love and protect each other. We have nothing to lose, but our chains. All right, y'all, love you.

I say love, love, love, rainbow. I just want you to love me. I say love, love, rainbow.

Adrian is a prophet, a seer, a nurturer, a healer, a brilliant Instagram story teller.

I've gotten to know Adrian a little bit, I spent some time with them in their home, and I have to say I've been through a lot of collaborations, and they have an all been great, and Adrian is teaching me every day that is showing up wherever I am in the process of my healing.

That they are capable of allowing me space to be, and it makes it easier for me to open up, and be the best artist, and to put myself forward.

Yesterday Adrian came to the dress rehearsal and sat right here, and was just like with me the whole service. And so the one and only, Adrian Maria Brown.

So this is my first time giving a sermon, so I'm going to tell you a little bit about who I am.

Okay, I'm not the pastor you used to. I'm a fat, black queer feminist, pleasure activist, emergent strategist, mushroom eating, pastor adjacent, miraculous bee.

I think this might be my first sermon, although often people do yell preach, but I'm just saying things that I feel in my heart. So feel free.

The only thing that qualifies me to be here speaking to you today is that I am a living embodiment of love and freedom, and I want to tell y'all I want to let you in on things I've been realizing lately, one of which is that I'm one of the freest people to ever live.

I'm going to tell you about it so because I think you might be too. So in my blackness, in my queerness, in my womanness, in my fatness, in my witchiness, I can be myself every day out loud, and in many ways I do whatever I want.

I mean, all day I wake up and I'm just like, who do I want to do now? I want to take a bath. I'm going to send that back to my ancestors. Now what do I want to do? I want to write a book. Sure.

I want to tell you about this because I think you also might be free, but you might not know it yet. You might be just as free as I am, but you didn't give yourself permission yet.

And that's what Juneteenth is all about, being already free. That's all I have to come and tell you.

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