HUMAN-RIGHTS ACTIVIST • PUBLIC THEOLOGIAN • SPEAKER

Kirby’s Story

I’m Kirby Amour—a longtime human-rights activist, public theologian, speaker, and UU seminarian. As Founder & Minister in Formation of the Church of Sacred Resistance, I am creating a safe space for women survivors to gather and support one another.

Today I bring my experience in activism, storytelling, and collective care to guest sermons, public speaking, writing, and community ministry.

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.:. Biography .:.

Kirby Amour is a longtime human-rights activist, public theologian, public speaker, UU seminarian, certified Soul Coach® practitioner, writer, and mother whose work lives at the intersection of spirituality, systems change, storytelling, advocacy, and collective care.

Over the last two decades, Kirby’s work has moved across music, activism, media, public advocacy, ministry, and healing spaces — always centered around the belief that human connection, truth-telling, and community support have the power to transform lives.

Kirby founded the music company Everything Independent, the first anti-percentage-based label in the United States focused on artist advocacy and rights within the music industry. During this time she became a recognized speaker at events including SXSW, NXNE, CMJ, and SF MusicTech while also managing the internationally touring band Gangstagrass for nearly a decade. Alongside her music work, she wrote the widely followed Tumblr parenting blog Little Amour during the height of the early mommy-blog era.

Her activism work began publicly during the Occupy Wall Street movement, where she founded Parents for Occupy Wall Street in New York City, helping organize and amplify the voices of families participating in social justice movements. Following Hurricane Sandy, she helped co-found The Red Hook Volunteers, a grassroots disaster recovery organization supporting communities impacted by the storm. Kirby was featured in Dana Glazer’s 2014 documentary Parents of the Revolution, documenting both activism and mutual aid efforts during that time. Her advocacy work has also included humanitarian support connected to the migration crisis in Greece, public storytelling around systems harm, and ongoing work focused on survivor protection, family court reform, disability, and collective care.

After transitioning out of the music industry, Kirby worked across advertising, marketing, digital storytelling, and content creation in both the United Kingdom and Portugal. She co-founded the digital marketing agency Blog Authentic and created the YouTube series Sailing Soon, documenting travel, family life, and alternative ways of living.

Portugal: Community, Advocacy & Resistance

In Portugal, Kirby owned Amour Soul Space café and continued her activism and community work. Her family-court advocacy included a 31-day hunger strike in 2024, covered by Portuguese media. This history remains an important part of her work for survivor protection and systems change.

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Alongside her public work, Kirby spent many years navigating severe, undiagnosed health conditions before discovering in 2017 that she had been living with Copper Toxicity and complex long-term health imbalances that uncovered diagnoses of Autism, MCAS and hEDS. Her healing journey eventually led her toward spirituality, ancestral healing practices, ministry formation, and becoming a Certified Soul Coach® practitioner. Her past practice included spiritual counseling with clients around the world.

Kirby is currently pursuing ministry through Starr King School for the Ministry as an UU seminarian working toward dual MASC and MDiv degrees. Her present work explores public theology, AI ethics, spiritual care, relational harm, systems failure, disability, motherhood, healing, and the role of community support during difficult seasons of life.

Today, Kirby’s work includes human-rights advocacy, sermons, workshops, writing, speaking, and public conversations rooted in lived experience and collective care.

Ministry, Technology & Sacred Resistance

As Founder & Minister in Formation with the Church of Sacred Resistance, Kirby serves her community by creating a safe space for women survivors to gather and support one another. Her public theology also explores AI, spiritual life, accessibility, and human connection.

The Petty Reverend & Petty Politics

As @thepettyreverend, Kirby brings a lighthearted approach to difficult things. Her work in “petty politics” uses humor, creativity, and public storytelling to question harmful systems while making room for joy, connection, and collective resistance in ministry.

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NOW THAT'S ALL OUT OF THE WAY, WHO IS KIRBY REALLY THOUGH?

Surviving the music industry, a revolution, a natural disaster, family court corruption, and multiple life-changing illnesses has taught me one thing:

WITHOUT EACH OTHER WE ARE NOTHING. 

“SOMEDAY, SOMEWHERE — ANYWHERE, UNFAILINGLY, YOU’LL FIND YOURSELF, AND THAT, AND ONLY THAT, CAN BE THE HAPPIEST OR BITTEREST HOUR OF YOUR LIFE.”

- PABLO NERUDA

.:. Testimonials .:.

Reflections from my past readings, ceremonies, and spiritual-guidance practice. These services have been discontinued; the testimonials remain as part of my professional history.