One of the (unedited) musings I discussed in the last post:
A rewritten Jewish practice is only possible, ironically, with an immersion and understanding of traditional Jewish practice, which excludes so many of us who feel unwanted or unnecessary as women and queers. Those of us who rejected the religion early now find ourselves tracing a culture, wanting to relearn Hebrew and other liturgies in an effort to subvert what we learn. I am jealous of those now who speak the language well enough to enact interventions in its spaces while I remain excluded, speechless.
By leaving the Jewish community, we failed to transform it. By leaving the Gay and Lesbian community, we failed to transform it. These resonances I now find moving within and between alternative queer, alternative Jewish and the various intersections of these allow for liens between these spaces, allow for these spaces to expand to be transformed until they are seamless. Not merged seamlessly, not to say at all that they are somehow now identical, but rather than it should be impossible to determine at which point one has begun and another ended.