Canadian female reverends shatter stereotypes with calendar

When Rev. Trisha Elliott of Ottawa was getting her photo taken, the photographer told her: “Don’t tilt your head to the side. You look like Jennifer Aniston. You have to look like a Minister.”

After sharing her experience on Facebook, fellow female ministers flooded her with stories about how they were told what a minister should look or act like: to cut their hair to look less sexy, how they were treated differently once they became pregnant, and more.

They came up with the idea to make a calendar depicting female ministers to shatter stereotypical, gendered conceptions of what a minister should look like. And thus, the Calendar Revs 2015 ("Real women, real ministers") was born.

The women are portrayed doing the diverse things they love, including cycling, hunting, wearing high heels, studying micro-organisms, dancing, mediating protests, and more.

All proceeds will go to the Malala Fund for Girls Education.

Among the B.C. women pictured are Rev. Jennifer Swanson of Port Moody, in her podcasting studio, and Kimiko Karpoff of New Westminster, who is a Healing Pathway practioner.

There's also LGBT representation.

Rev. Sarah Miller of Toronto is shown marching in the Pride parade (pictured at top), Rev. Laura Hodgson and Rev. Sarah Chapman are shown as a married couple in their wedding dresses (below, left), and Rev. Tracy Fairfield of Burnaby is shown with her wife and three children (below, bottom right).

For more information about the calendar, visit their website.

As the song goes, these sisters ministers are doing it for themselves!