#inclusion

wise-woman-healing:

Community needs to be inclusive. All children need a family, not only those who have a biological family. The differently-abled can always contribute, and deserve group support. Single adults deserve to be included, not just when they are partnered. Atypical sexuality is just part of human variation, no need to ghettoize it. Planting gardens, painting old houses, holding a community feed are activities where everyone is needed, and everyone can contribute. When we see the full range of our human variety we know ourselves better, and can love ourselves, and each other, more.  #rowegreentree

June was chosen for LGBTQ Pride Month to commemorate the Stonewall riots. During this month, many pride events are held during this month to recognize the impact LGBT people have had in the world.

Celebrating Black Music Month

The Harlem Renaissance helped to redefine how the world understood African American culture.

“Minnie the Moocher” is a jazz song first recorded in 1931 by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, selling over a million copies.

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The term solstice is derived from the Latin solstitium. The term solstice is used to describe the exact moment when the sun reaches its northernmost point when the North Pole tilts closest to the sun from the Earth’s equator.

World Refugee Day commemorates the obstacles refugees face each year, while also celebrating their courage and strength.

Sesame Workshop and partners have and continue to support Syrian and Rohingya refugee children with early childhood education programs.

‪Today’s historic 116th Congress includes 102 female U.S. House members.

In addition, Rep. Nancy Pelosi reclaims her position as House speaker, becoming the first woman to hold the position twice. ‬

World AIDS Day is an international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection and mourning those who have died of the disease.

In support of #WorldAIDSDay, @RENTonFox is matching donations to @bcefa, up to $20,000. You can donate on any of our social pages or right here: broadwaycares.org/rent

Hispanic Heritage Month begins on September 15 because this day marks the anniversary of independence for five Hispanic countries—Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. In addition, Mexico achieved independence on September 16, and Chile on September 18.

‪Wish you a happy & prosperous New Year! ‬

I’ve never experienced oppression or discrimination by calling myself bisexual.

But I have been bullied, verbally abused, and called a freak because of my asexuality.

It’s incredibly rare that someone chooses to be in a relationship that doesn’t involve sex. We are rejected by our partners & love interests & even by the LGBT community, when all we asked from them was acceptance. Even if you’re LGBT, you’re expected to have sexual relationships with someone.

Regardless, we are deserving of romantic connection & love. It can be lonely, being excluded from relationships, the lgbt community. Being called “broken” and “medically abnormal”.

So don’t you dare tell me asexuals aren’t marginalised .

tikkunolamorgtfo:

tikkunolamorgtfo:

So, in light of everything that’s been happening with regards to the anti-Semitic fallout from the Chicago Dλke March debacle, I just want to take a moment to address all my fellow Jews who are not members of the LGBTQ+ community to say that, now—more than ever—we really need to step our allyship the fuck up for our fellow LGBTQ+ Yidden. 

I have seen so many heartbreaking posts over the past few days from gay and trans Jews who are being told by the support networks and advocacy organisations that are supposed to be protecting them that they will not be accepted unless they tow the party line in support of CDM, and basically agree to either pass a GoodJew™ loyalty test or completely hide their Jewishness in future. In one of the anti-Semitism discussion groups I’m in on FB a trans woman was told by trans activism group in her city that if she did not support their “explicit solidarity” with the Chicago Dλke March organisers that she was in the wrong place and should find another group. 

So what this means moving forward is that the rest of us, as allies, need to start working twice as hard to make Jewish spaces more welcoming and accessible for LGBTQ+ Jews than ever before. In this landscape of isolation and vitriol, we cannot let anyone get left behind. 

So to all my Jewish LGBTQ+ friends out there: Just tell us what you need. Tell us how you want be supported and uplifted and I will fucking be there. 

❤️  AM YISRAEL CHAI ❤️  

One of mutuals had some thoughts to share in regards to this post. However, they’re not fully out, so I am reposting their words here anonymously on their behalf: 

“when it comes to supporting all LGBT+ Jews, it’d be really great if reform/liberal/conservative/etc. Jews - especially straight members of these communities, but this doesn’t preclude LGBT+ members - could recognise that heavily deriding Orthodox Judaism for its practices and how alienating it is for queer Jews, often just pushed the burden onto Orthodox queer jews. Of course people should be allowed to talk about how Orthodoxy may reject them, especially if they have a background in it and had to leave, no one should be silence. But the perception that Orthodoxy exists and that hurts (for example) Reform queer Jews really shifts the narrative away from actual gay Orthodox Jews. If Orthodoxy is only ever discussed to be denigrated, especially by non-Orthodox Jews who genuinely are a lot more visible on at least jumblr if not general secular spaces, then all you’re doing is making the space between Orthodox queers and other queer Jews even further apart. And of course, a lot of Orthodox Jews are going to be in the closet. And of course we are going to be facing difficulties in our communities. But that’s our stories and narratives. If non-Orthodox Jews don’t make space for us, then we’re being alienated thrice. (In Orthodoxy, in the Jewish community at large, and of course in goyishe LGBT+ spaces)”

To add onto this, I have found an anti-religious climate in many queer Jewish spaces. Asking for accommodations so that I don’t have to write on Shabbat, for example, often marks me as that ‘weird religious Jew’ that makes people uncomfortable; ditto if I mention that I actually go to shul.  While secular and non-halachic religious Judaism are both entirely valid identities, that can be affirmed without diminishing more traditionally religious forms of Judaism and those who find meaning in it. For all the reasons I feel uncomfortable in Orthodox spaces as a queer person, I often feel uncomfortable in liberal spaces as someone who does identify with halachic judaism.

Queer Jews exist in halachic communities. Halachic Judaism has value. Liberal Judaism is not the solution to queerphobia in Orthodox and other traditionally observant Jewish communities. Queer Orthodox Jews have agency over their narratives and should be listened to. And, certainly, if you are facilitating a queer Jewish space (or any Jewish) space and it isn’t possible for someone to observe kashrut and shabbat, please work on that.