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Donny Mioskowski Cámara

Donny Mioskowski Cámara is a mixed-race Polish-Filipino American who lives and works as a musician in Querétaro and Mexico City, Mexico. He worked as a music director and liturgist for 19 years in Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area in multi-cultural parishes where he was welcomed and supported as an openly gay man. Since 2020, Donny has chosen to use his grandmothers' maiden names as his professional name because they were the culture-bearers in his family.

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A performer representing a babaylan shaman is pictured at a traditional festival in Bago, in Negros Occidental, Philippines. As Donny Mioskowski Cámara writes about precolonial Philippines, "Masculine and feminine energies coexisted in the babaylan — women and men — and these leaders were honored for their connection to the divine." (Wikimedia Commons/Hptina24, CC BY-SA 4.0)

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