Im Not Crying You Are Crying!

trying my hand at some digital art!

queer jewish flag coining!

[pt. queer jewish flag coining! end pt.]

nivrah bein hashmashot

a term for queer jews, translating to "created between the suns" in reference to the night between the sixth and seventh days of creation. the rainbow was created then, along with other things that transcended binaries.

ovri

term for queer (especially trans and/or gender non-conforming) jews, translating to "one who crosses over" which can reference transition or subverting gender/sexuality norms. the plural is ovrim.

these flags/terms are jewish-exclusive! other than that, feel free to use

if you credit/tag me, you can use these flags as inspiration or redesign them!

credits: where i first heard these terms!

A fellow hetrodox Abrahamic! :0

im quite pleased with the amount of heterodox and/or heretical folks on tumblr lol, ive found my people 🙏

Before you say “religion”...

Take a moment and ask yourself a few questions:

- Do you mean just 1 religion? 

- Do you know enough about the all worlds religions to make a potentially harmful generalization about all of them?

- Are you making assumptions about other religions based off of your experience with one religion?

- Are you making assumptions about other religions and cultures based on your limited experience with a single person or group of people from said religion or culture?

- Are you taking out your valid frustrating, anger, hurt, and pain with one religious group on people who have nothing to do with it by making a generalization?

If you don’t actually mean the every single one of the vast, diverse, multi-faceted religions in the world, don’t make a blanket statement and list the one(s) you mean specifically. This also goes for using ‘grouping’ labels that do not apply, like Abrahamic, etc. 

do you have a favorite bug? Or bugs you think are particularly cool? I think all bugs are pretty neat, especially that one bug with a really long neck built like a straw...

(p.s sorry for yapping in your inbox haha)

LOL good question! i think ants are very underrated, i think they are super cool :0

i assume u mean giraffe-necked weevils!! those are epic as well, very good favorite bug! ill put a picture under the cut

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gender and religion...

tell me about the ways your religious or spiritual identity is connected to your gender!! do you have seperate religious and secular genders? is your gender represented through scripture? do you share a gender with an important figure in your spiritual tradition? feel free to share! :D

just a handy little info chart on the spectrums of sexuality.

shavua tov to my trad-egal jewish siblings!! do any of yall have resource recommendations on trad-egal practices/halakha/etc? can be websites, videos, articles, books....

tysm!!

i rly like Clozemaster! it was recommended to me and i felt like i was learning actual plausible dialogue instead of random duolingo shit lol. i hope it helps u!!

i’m going to israel in a couple months and i really wanna learn more hebrew (i only know the basics) and i was wondering wondering if anyone had good recommendations for good apps/sites (not duolingo pls) id love to hear them! also preferably free or free for students!

any recs are helpful tysm!!!

chag purim sameach! wishing a wonderful purim to everyone :D feel free to comment and/or reblog talking abt your fun purim celebrations! and/or share some fun facts :0

a common syncretism question

i get asked often how i syncretize judaism and islam (understandably!) but probably my least favorite "question" is when people say "well you can't syncretize that because X and Y beliefs are different." i fear people don't know that syncretism isn't just simultaneous practice of several beliefs but is indeed the forming of new beliefs/traditions from those original ones.

also, if religions A and B had no differing beliefs, they would be the same religion!! thus making syncretism impossible in the minds of some people. i respect the confusion but it gets so tiring to explain this specific thing lol