Support queer and trans anti-zionist Jews to build community, spiritual care and political education rooted in our commitment to collective liberation.
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Hello beautiful wonderful people!!!
Thank you so so so so much to every single one of you for donating to the Queer Mikveh Project fundraiser. Your support means the world to us. ❤️❤️❤️
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Thank you thank you again for your support, and for all that you're doing to free Palestine.
With love and gratitude, The QMP team
Queer Mikveh Project offers community building, spiritual care and political education for the rapidly growing anti-zionist Jewish community. We are one of very few publicly anti-zionist Jewish organizations centering leadership of Black, Indigenous, Mizrahi, Sephardi, Jews of Color, transgender and non-binary Jews, Jews by Choice and Jews with disabilities. In this time of global awakening, we have seen smaller initiatives like ours, which focus on culture, art, education, mutual aid and healing, support the systemic transformation our activist ancestors dreamed of. This community fundraiser is essential to the continuation of Queer Mikveh Project in a climate of ever-increasing fascist repression.
We need your support to continue! Thank you for believing in us and the importance of our work!
Make a one-time donation to our community fundraiser from this page!
With your monthly donation of $18 or more, you become subscribed to our monthly FULL MOON MIKVEH online live ritual.
On a beach, a group of queers huddle in a circle, laughing.. Film still by Kai Tillman
What is Queer Mikveh Project?
Queer Mikveh Project is a land-honoring initiative activating mikveh, the ancient Jewish ritual practice of water immersion, for spiritual connection, cultural transformation, and the cultivation of beauty and joy. Water moves us towards freedom and Olam HaBa, the Jewish concept of the world to come, as we remember the power of our bodies as water and our own bodily autonomy.
We are part of the larger movement working to shift the tapestry of Jewish culture and practice beyond zionism and towards collective liberation for all. We welcome Jewish community and our friends into deeper solidarity with the people of Palestine and Indigenous peoples across the world.
Two queers dig a hole in the sand with their hands. Our Impact
QMP has been supporting the Jewish queer anti-zionist community in impactful ways for almost 10 years! This past year, our educational programming addressed greenwashing, pinkwashing, Jewish Solidarity with Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island and Palestine, and Christian Zionism. We began our monthly Full Moon Mikvaot - a community-building and spiritual resource for anti-zionist queer and trans Jews committed to Palestinian solidarity. We supported our community in developing mutual aid practices. The QMP community sent over $15k to our community partner projects in Palestine.
With your support we will:
Continue our monthly Full Moon Mikveh gatherings
Continue our political education programming - coming soon: California Jewish Artists for Palestine on artwashing!
Steward the deepening of anti-zionist community through our Queer Mikveh Buddies program
Provide ASL interpretation for all of our events
Continue to support mutual aid efforts in Palestine
Pay our part-time staff a living wage
Continue to collaborate with other anti-zionist organizations to build our movement
Create more print matter, publish
Launch our anti-zionist book club
Initiate longer-term projects–
Activate the Jewish community into solidarity with indigenous-led water rights efforts
Create liturgy, art and ritual tools for the queer anti-zionist Jewish community
Thank you for being in this with us! If you believe in our work, please share on social media and in your extended networks! Look for the fundraiser post on our Instagram @queermikvehproject
We are excited to build this world with love, together!
Two queers hold a full wine glass together beside two burning Shabbat candles. Film still by Chani Bockwinkel.
What Participants Are Saying
“It was possibly the most moving and transformative event I have attended... I felt that this event fully encapsulated many of the elements that I have come to understand as being part of the diasporist Jewish movement, and helped me to understand them in a deeply embodied way.”
“QMP is grounded in the mikveh ritual but expanded to be the community we all need and want in our Jewish lives.”
“The Queer Mikveh Project retreat was beneficial to my spiritual growth and healing. I move through the world witnessing a lot of violence towards people I love. This retreat gave me a recalibration of my resilience.”
"I have never experienced mikveh before, and the ease of the space allowed me to access a raw place and feel connected to something greater than myself.”
“This year after October 7 was quite hard, especially as a Jew who doesn't have much connection to Jewish community except for family. So I think I really needed to be in a Jewish space to process the emotions on the on-going genocide in Palestine, rising antisemitism and war climate in the middle east... It felt empowering and soothing to be at the queer mikveh."
In a pool, one queer holds another around the middle, supporting them as they float. Film still by Stormi Salamander.
Rewards
Donor Recognition
Donate $18.00 or more
Amount is fully tax-deductible.
All donors over $18 will be listed on our website (if you so wish!)
Monthly Full Moon Mikveh Subscription ~ $18
Donate $18.00 or more
Amount is fully tax-deductible.
Monthly subscriptions of $18/month will give you access to our monthly Full Moon Mikveh! This helps cover half the cost of our monthly mikvaot, including ASL interpretation. Monthly subscriptions can be made at THIS LINK! <3
Monthly Full Moon Mikveh Subscription ~ $36
Donate $36.00 or more
Amount is fully tax-deductible.
Monthly subscriptions of $36/month will give you access to our monthly Full Moon Mikveh! This helps cover the full cost of our monthly mikvaot, including ASL interpretation and collaborator wages. Monthly subscriptions can be made at THIS LINK! <3