Our Yesterdays And Our Tomorrows

By Elizabeth S August 8, 2023

“To love is to gamble on the promise that our todays will envy our tomorrows.”

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We Deserve Blessings

By Anonymous June 30, 2023

In June 2023, New Voices published a series of micro-stories about “Queer Jewish Joy”. As hostility toward trans and queer people persists across the country, we can derive strength from the moments that remind us how beautiful it is to be part of the LGBTQIA+ community. As we continue to fight for justice, stories of…

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Nothing but Holiness Here

By Athena Ackerman June 30, 2023

In June 2023, New Voices published a series of micro-stories about “Queer Jewish Joy”. As hostility toward trans and queer people persists across the country, we can derive strength from the moments that remind us how beautiful it is to be part of the LGBTQIA+ community. As we continue to fight for justice, stories of…

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Grieving Audrey Gale Hall: Chasing Queer, Jewish Joy

By Anna Rajagopal June 30, 2023

In June 2023, New Voices published a series of micro-stories about “Queer Jewish Joy”. As hostility toward trans and queer people persists across the country, we can derive strength from the moments that remind us how beautiful it is to be part of the LGBTQIA+ community. As we continue to fight for justice, stories of…

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AEPi Sweethearts

By Sean Githens June 30, 2023

In June 2023, New Voices published a series of micro-stories about “Queer Jewish Joy”. As hostility toward trans and queer people persists across the country, we can derive strength from the moments that remind us how beautiful it is to be part of the LGBTQIA+ community. As we continue to fight for justice, stories of…

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Crests

By Simone Klein June 30, 2023

Rachel, Tamar, and I are feygele girlboys boygirling In birdy glory and flirt we enter my 3 stached tallitot katanot Smocking to the mess of chants through our unruly and threaded, draping lungs in the freaky heap of each other’s gravity, we are mundanely adorned, matching into men part follow part plea and to freedom….

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An image of two women against a backdrop of three arches, with orange trees behind them. Once of them is wearing a dark purple dress and gold jewelry, with olive skin. The other is wearing a white long sleeve shirt with short brown curly hair. They are sitting with legs intertwined, touching each other's leg and face.

mi kerida / My Beloved

By Astera Marcos June 27, 2023

“My beloved’s hair is the color of coffee /
And she drinks from the finest waters in Sefarad.”

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Image of a shadowed hand holding a candle against a glowing wall.

Mishpacha: Given and Found

By Elsa Baxter June 8, 2023

“Zadie’s fork clatters on the table, startling me. So, he says, taking a breath to steady himself, I have been told that you are gay.”

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A sketchbook laid out on a green background with two images of a transmasculine individual, one looking to the right and colored with blue and orange, the other facing away, toward a circle of light that emanates in blue and orange around the paper.

Born Again in the Bathroom Mirror: a Transmasculine Euphoric Poem

By Levi Metzger June 2, 2023

“I didn’t know what G-d looked like until I met Him this afternoon in the bathroom mirror.”

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Tattoos / Freedom

By Riley T March 24, 2023

“It felt so right, I could almost understand why God said no; no human should be allowed to experience the amount of joy and love from such a simple interaction.”

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