Pride St. Louis PrideFest 2023 Diversity Creates Community was so amazing!
Sister Marjorie Arcana put on her super subtle flower Cornett and got her ass down to St. Louis to spread joy and help out where she could!
Some magical moments from Pride.

.Sister Marjorie got to help someone who told her they were alone at Pride, they looked super dehydrated so Marjorie gave them her water bottle and even checked in on them before starting their hour at MTUG. That person stopped Marjorie before she left and let her know she really helped out and their friends were there now and they were feeling much better.

.Sister Marjorie got to help out at the MTUG booth helping to give toiletries away and give folks who came up resources. We love to help out organizations like MTUG and MTUG shows us Sisters alot of love!

.She got to see some friends and even met some folks from Facebook! She got big ole hugs and saw so many happy folks that knew the Sisters and love us! We love them back!

.She got to hear a story from a person who told Marjorie this was their first Pride event. They were so excited that they brought a Polaroid camera with them to take everyone's pictures. It was so amazing to see that person's face light up with pure joy as they told Marjorie everyone was so nice including her.

.She got to make connections and get resources from many groups. Alot of them already knew who the Sisters were and were very open about sharing resources and queer affirming churches we could help out at.

.Sister Marjorie even ran into Sister Gay Bitch Milkshake in representing their SOIL Sisters sticker and hat!

Lots of hugs. Lots laughter and love and even a few "gurrrllll you did that!" Thrown to Marjorie as she walked through the rows with her giant blue discreet flower!

At the end of the day Sister Marjorie was tired, hot but full of love from community.
The community supports the Sisters and allows us to come into their spaces to spread joy and help. We are forever grateful for that trust.
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Thank you Pride St. Louis for a magical time.

On Saturday afternoon, Sisters Gay Bitch Milkshake and Mothra Stewart visited the "Oogle Boogle" house in Carbondale, a residential communal home with a basement alternative music venue. The house and its residents hosted an Oogle Fair, with activities in and and out of the house and music planned for the evening. Proceeds from the fair support CARE--Carbondale Assembly for Radical Equity, a consortium of local support groups assisting trans and queer folks moving to the Carbondale area to escape the toxic legislation in their home states.

Sister Gay Bitch Milkshake was a little sad to learn that the house mascot dog, PoDo, was not receptive to sister blessings and head kisses. Ever the kind Mistress of Fur Beings, she gave PoDo his space and accepted shin sniffs as close enough to a puppy blessing.

Sister Mothra Stewart "won" a game of supersized Jenga. She was sad to learn that knocking the tower over was considered losing. Where she comes from, a giant kaiju moth is expected to do some property damage! Knocking over an increasingly rickety tower is just a Tuesday afternoon!

The Sisters had a great time hanging out with Carbondale's cool queer & trans clan. The alt/punk folk music in the backyard was a foreshadowing of the music to come in the evening. The walking tacos were amazing. So much art and games and community spirit. And all for a good cause! 

Donations to support CARE can be made through The Rainbow Cafe. In the memo line for the donation, please note that you intend the funds to support CARE, otherwise you will be generally supporting The Rainbow Cafe (which is also a good thing!) 

Sister Jewnita and Sister Marjorie had an amazing time representing hoedom to the masses at Pride St. Charles yesterday!

They both wandered down to aisles giving hugs to as many people as they could! Met some new folks and found some friends! We even had someone cry as soon as they learned we were apart of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, they heard all about us and thought it was so cool they finally met us!

After, we finished out our day helping out at the Metro Trans Umbrella Group booth. We helped to spread awareness of community resources, helped get folks to donate to this amazing organization and spread as much joy as they could!

Thank you Pride St. Charles for providing joy and safe space to our community in a climate controlled enviroment! (Sister Marjorie especially appreciates this as 6 layers of setting spray and a prayer can't stand up to the sun sometimes!)

Thank you MTUG for being one of the biggest supporters of our work, our House and organization! Thank you for trusting us to work with you and spread joy we love yall more than the child who goes on and on about how corn  is the most amazing thing ever!
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Happy Pride everyone!

Sisters Mothra Stewart, Gay Bitch Milkshake, Toggaf Tuls Reeuq, and Fagatha Hardness attended and tabled at PrideFest in Carbondale this Saturday.

Srs Stewart and Milkshake also participated in the Pride March and Cruise, debuting the SOIL Sisters’ new banner. Being the queers they are, they chose to cruise, of course. Sr Milkshake took the wheel while Sr Stewart made a throne for herself in the bed of the truck, waving her Pride flag and blessing the marchers and spectators with a rubber chicken. As you do.

Returning to the festival, they met up with Srs Hardness and Reeuq, who were splitting their asses--er, time between the Rainbow Café table, the SOIL Sisters table, and any table in between that showed the slightest interest. They take very seriously the spreading part in “spreading universal joy.”

At the SOIL Sisters’ table, free condoms, stickers, and chilled water bottles were offered to any passing festival attendees. Srs Reeuq and Milkshake blessed several attendees while Sr Hardness encouraged folks to join them on a pub crawl later in the month. Sr Stewart also read Tarot cards for a donation of any amount, including a “compliment” if that’s all an attendee could afford. That’s what “complimentary” means, right?

Sr Hardness bought way too much jewelry and shared some of their findings with their sisters. They nearly blinded Sr Reeuq with the sparkles coming off their fingers. Sr Stewart said she nearly gagged herself on the spiciness of a veggie quesadilla from the Newall Farms food tent, but we all know she lost her gag reflex years ago.
Sr Milkshake made it their personal mission to kiss all the dogs at PrideFest; we’re pretty sure summa them weren’t dogs! One of them, at least, was a boa constrictor, but it wagged its tail so Sr Milkshake gave it a kiss.

At the end of the festival, Sr Stewart took a turn in the dunk tank. Far too many Southern Illinoisan’s seemed to want to drown a moth. It didn’t help that her husband was paying for people to dunk her. He even paid the premium price to dunk her directly without handling any balls--which, you know, seems to skip past the funnest part.
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All in all, a good time was had by all. Southern Illinois showed out for PrideFest this year and it was an amazing success. The SOIL Sisters were proud to be a part of it and involved in the planning.

Sister Marjorie Arcana had an amazing time at Soulard Pride!
She knew as soon as she got off that bus she was home.

Vendors lined the street. People were in amazing spirits. The Queens we beautiful and performed with soul and gave amazing performances!

Sister Marjorie spent her time handing out her Sacred Sacks while giving comfort and joy to those she met!

The best part was seeing all the families that brought their children and families to Pride. Alot of folks even told her it was their first Pride!

Magic was made that day and our humble lil House of hoes were even introduced a couple of times! Sister Marjorie didn't have to say a thing!

(Which is great because she was also thinking about chicken strips and that would have been a weird ass transition.)

Thank you Soulard Pride for allowing our lil brothel I mean convent spread some joy in your neighberhood!

After all, the best hoes certainly get around!
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(Anyone got some chicken strips for real though?)

​Yesterday Sisters Marjorie Arcana and Jewnita Hug took the streets again in St Louis again to spread joy and love and a little Magick at the 31st annual Pagan Picnic held in Tower Grove Park. These two hoes embraced the magic of the sacred feminine while doing squats with wiccans, engaged in the loving gesture off sacred sack tapping with the fae as well as discussed deep philosophical conversation with shape shifters... okay that last one was a stretch and Jewnita REALLY wanted to pet the puppies after they found out they were blocked from the weekly gay agenda newsletter that was delivered that morning. While it was hot and hot and well HOT these two hoes wandered and spread joy and handed out Sister Marjories Sacred Sacks to those they met. Sister Marjorie even blessed an author! Thus proving once again you never need wonder where the SOIL Sisters are. These dirty hoes are EVERYWHERE and love being with you.