Results for: queer parenting
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“Tahara” Is a Queer Teen Comedy with Death and Depth
This is exactly what I want from contemporary low-budget queer filmmaking.
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Now Is the Perfect Time for Mishloach Manot
This tradition, which literally translates to “sending of portions,” involves creating care packages of food and drink to send to loved ones.
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Eight Ways To Spell ‘Hanukkah,’ as Regulars at Your Local Bar
There are many ways to spell Chanukah, and they’ve all got their own personality. Just for kicks, I imagined eight of them as people at an LGBTQ bar.
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I Didn’t Know Existential Therapists Were a Thing Until I Got One
“I’m an easy host, a rake, a card, I’m bejeweled, I have a gay face. I want to love and be loved. If reaching is a kind of being, it’s a reaching toward.”
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Shiva Baby Wasn’t My Queer Story — and That’s Totally Fine
“I know and love many Danielle-esque people — but she is not me. Instead, she is the projection many people have of me solely based on my identity.”
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As a Jewish Anti-Zionist, Here’s What I’ve Been Reading This Week
A lack of expertise should not be an excuse to turn away — it should be an invitation to learn.
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“It’s Just a Phase” — Bisexual and Ex-Orthodox Erasure in Netflix’s My Unorthodox Life
We all — Ex-Orthodox, Orthodox, and bisexual — deserve better from Netflix than the perpetuation of misconceptions about our identities.
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I’m Coming Out as an Anti-Zionist Jew
Going viral holding a sign that reads “My grandpa didn’t survive Auschwitz to bomb Gaza,” is not how I planned to start a conversation with my family condemning Israel’s actions against the Palestinian people. I’m not the only Jewish person who has long chosen to self-silence rather than stand with my values, but it’s not too late for other Jewish people to join me. The moment for Jewish-Palestinian solidarity is now.
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Dedication and Liberation, or What Does a Queer Black Hanukkah Look Like
What does Hanukkah look like when you’re a queer, Black, convert who doesn’t find deep meaning in traditional celebrations of the holiday?
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Hold Us in the Light
The thing about miscarriage is that the word itself does no justice to the great tragedy that it is. There are very few things I know anymore, but I do know this: Birdie will always be a part of our Hanukkah story.
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Gey in Kikh: Happy New Year!
Celebrate the New Year with Soviet mayonnaise.
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The Life We Never Knew Would Find Us: Navigating Loss as an Interfaith Queer Couple
“We’re in Lancaster County at Erin’s family’s house, surrounded by plastic Bible quiz trophies adorned with gold crosses and family portraits taken at national parks. My bewildered partner comes to me, face slack, and tells me I need to call my mother.”
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21 Queer Jews on Why We Love Being Jewish
“The way you can bring together Jews from all walks of life to share a holiday together over a meal made with love and a table filled with candles, wine and challah, and we can join together in song and laughter and interruption and feel quickly like family because, well, we are.”
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On This Tragic Shabbat: 11 Murdered by Anti-Semitic Terrorist at Pittsburgh Synagogue
In Jewish philosophy, the “Tree of Life” is emblematic of the wisdom of the Torah: “its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace.”
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8 Books That Feature Queer Jewish Women to Read Right Now
Here are eight awesome books with queer Jewish women characters, from YA to literary fiction to historical fiction and more!
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The Woman in the Rainbow Tallit Was the Actual Rabbi
I wanted to wear my own history again, this time supported not only by my Jewish ancestors, but by my queer ancestors.
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Begging to Be Sterilized
“It seemed at the time to be exactly what life was about, and only just barely staying alive, curling up in corners of lonely, unclean rooms in shaking fits of sadness too raw to keep inside my head, screaming into my bent knees.”
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Queering the Jewish Holidays: How I Celebrate Passover
In a couple of weeks I’m hosting my very first queer Seder. Let’s talk about how we celebrate Passover!
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Shanah Tovah, Here’s 36 Influential Jewish LGBTQ Women & Non-Binary Humans!
Some interesting Jewish people to enjoy with your apples and honey.
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18 Influential Lesbian & Bisexual Jewish Women To Remember Today
Some very cool ladies to remember in all that we do