JQT celebrates the "queering" of Jewish Heritage Month, through May
Festivities during the third annual JQT Heritage Month include Queer Jewish Languages and Bridging Water Rituals
Eyal Rivlin.
Carmel Tanaka.
JQT, a volunteer-run Jewish queer and trans nonprofit organization, is celebrating the month of May by “queering” Jewish Heritage Month.
Queer Jewish Languages takes place May 15 in partnership with the HUC-JIR Jewish Language Project. Moderated by JQT Vancouver founder Carmel Tanaka, the event features a lineup of linguists and everyday speakers of what the organization calls “queer Jewish languages (nonbinary Hebrew, Ladino, Yiddish, queer Jewish English, and Farsi)”. The guests include Eyal Rivlin of the Nonbinary Hebrew Project, which is “building a bigger tent for nonbinary Jews through a third-gender grammar systematics for Hebrew”. Also joining are Nesi Altaras, Faith Jones, Grace Elizabeth Dy and Ellen Perleberg, and Yosef Jay Nemanpour.
Matthew Nouriel—The Empress Mizrahi (they/them).
On May 28, it’s Bridging Water Rituals in partnership with Queer Mikveh Project and Edot Midwest Regional Jewish Diversity and Racial Justice Collaborative.
And running the whole month is the JQT Wall of Artists in partnership with No Silence on Race.
Full details are at JQT.
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