Join Queer Mikveh Project for our first Full Moon Mikveh; a monthly gathering to soften, heal, build community and strengthen collective resilience through somatic grounding, creative expression, ritual and connection.
This month we'll gather with the fullness of the Tammuz moon. Tammuz -- the month where the sun shines its brightest -- where our ancestors lived in the precarity of the unknown -- will the sun burn up all our crops? Will we grow enough food to survive the winter? Will we grow enough collective power to survive climate chaos?
This Tammuz we are present with the precarity that the people of Gaza have been living in for the past nine months. As we open to grief for the unfathomable loss and suffering, we will join together to express our grief and our longing for communion. We will transmute our grief into spiritual and material support for the people of Palestine. We will generate blessings for protection, and mutual aid towards surviving the precarity of Israel-made famine.
We will gather two days before 17 Tammuz, a fast day commemorating the breach of the walls of Jerusalem before the destruction of the Second Temple. 17 Tammuz marks the beginning of the three week mourning period leading up to Tisha B'Av. In this community, we refuse to exceptionalize our ancestral trauma. We refuse to exceptionalize our grief. We mourn and heal and build together in the spirit of collective liberation for all people.
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.
Mikveh is an ancient practice of ritual immersion to mark and facilitate transformation. When we immerse, we work with the water to transform and heal ourselves and our local and global communities. Renewed and transformed, we bolster ourselves for the work of collective liberation in solidarity with Indigenous water protectors in Turtle Island, Palestine and across the globe.
This event is a joint fundraiser for Queer Mikveh Project and a community water access project in Gaza.
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