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In honor of National Honor Our LGBTQ+ Elders Day, we are revisiting a powerful piece from Lilith Online by Carmel Tanaka. Read "Caring For, and Learning From, Queer and Trans Elders" now at lilith.org — link in bio!
Image caption: Carmel Tanaka and her mother, Dalia Gottlieb-Tanaka, at a “Sharing Queer History” panel at the Museum of North Vancouver in 2023.
As we approach graduation season and prepare to say goodbye to our wonderful class of interns, we have milestones on our minds, both bitter and sweet ones. We have also been contemplating how Jewish tradition and ritual–or feminist twists on tradition and ritual–can guide and ground us during moments of change, struggle, and triumph.
Milestones mark our growth and progress through time. From classic milestones that tend to happen in spring and summer, like graduations and weddings, to more personal changes, tragedies and triumphs, like moving and surgery, Jewish feminists have turned to Lilith to shared their rituals and reflections. The pages of our magazine have become a place where we mark our personal and communal resilience.
📸: “Accompanying the Hasidic bride to the wedding canopy, Brooklyn, 1980s” by @joanrothphotography, published in Lilith’s Winter 2020-2021 Issue.
Whether you graduated this yesterday or decades ago, it’s never too late to celebrate our mentors! Tag us in a photo with your feminist mentor--we’ll reshare it!
Then, visit the link in our bio to give the gift of Lilith, which includes:
4 issues per year of Lilith`s gorgeous print magazine
• Exclusive access to Lilith salons across the U.S & abroad
• Early registration and complimentary admission to select Lilith writing workshops & special events
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Lilith magazine has revitalized the salon—an intimate gathering of subscribers to encounter new ideas, connect with old friends, and talk about the questions and issues that matter deeply to you. You provide the space and people and Lilith will provide the conversation in the form of discussion questions for each new issue of the magazine. The special joy of these salons is conversation: lively talk with interesting people.
In this moment, we need independent, intimate, and intergenerational conversation more than ever before, where we can show up simply as we are, in all of our contradictions and complexities.
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Gila Axelrod writes about chronic illness, Jewish holidays, and the beauty in building your own rituals. Read it now at the link in bio!
