Join Queer Mikveh Project for our monthly Full Moon Mikveh; a monthly gathering to soften, heal, build community and strengthen collective resilience through somatic grounding, creative expression, ritual and connection.
In the Northern hemisphere, Cheshvan is a time of welcoming the darkness. Deciduous trees shed their leaves, and teach us about letting go. The veil is at its thinnest, and in Jewish tradition, we honor the deaths of our matriarchs Sarah and Rachel. After months of concentrated festivals at the apex of the Jewish yearly cycle, Cheshvan brings us space for rest and reflection.
Last month, we experimented with bringing educational elements into our Mikvehs. This month, we return our focus to making ritual together. In our time together, we will hold space for communal grief. We will invite in the support of our ancestors, to support us in processing the tidal waves of grief that are moving through the collective in this time of unending genocide. We will hold spacious time for connection with other queers who desire a Judaism beyond Zionism. We will connect with our descendants and ask what they require of us to move towards a world that embodies collective liberation.
{UPDATE: Queer Mikveh Buddies is closed for this month!]
For those who choose to opt in, we will pair you with a buddy to stay connected with throughout the month. If you’re interested in being paired with a buddy, please fill out the Queer Mikveh Buddies section of this form by 11/10.
All are welcome to join this community, woven by shared desire for healing and communal transformation. All are welcome to join who are moved by what is left unsaid, wish to truth tell through their grief (and be vessels for collective grief from beings we may not yet have located in the crevices of our hearts and the fissures of earth and sky.) All are welcome who long to move towards joyful presence and commit to deeply living. All are welcome to join who yearn to belong with the seen and unseen at the intersection of ugliness and possibility.
Come as you are. Come in the crab shell of quiet, rest and retreat. Come release into the blossom of delight and roll around in the cross-pollination of communion. Wherever you are, however you are. Come as you are.
This event is a joint fundraiser for Queer Mikveh Project and a community mental health clinic in the occupied West Bank.
All allies welcome regardless of religious affiliation, gender or sexual orientation.
ASL Interpretation will be available, please share details on your needs for the event below.
Zoom link and registration details will come in a follow-up email as we approach the day of the event. We very much look forward to sharing space with you.
Questions & Paypal:
queermikvehproject@gmail.com