Rachel Mahan

Love your cat’s name! And love Wales! Happy belated St. David’s Day!

For trans people who are worried about accessing care, the Unitarians have a fund to help. If you can, donate. The needs will increase starting www.pinkhaven.org/about/.

alright you wanna know how to support trans people?

hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit.

Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.

Today's action (#7) Read a book that inspires action toward justice. Invite three or four friends to read it with you and discuss. My choice is Beautiful Souls by Eyel Press.

Today's action (day 6). Passed on to me from Marcia Szymanski:

Call the Governor and asked them to continue issuing full birth certificates to all babies born in the state (to help guarantee birthright citizenship).

Today's Action: Call two local immigrant aid organizations to see what they need and get on their lists for support/volunteer. This is the action for day 4.

In case you hadn't noticed, I'm posting an action a day. One that can be done easily and privately. This is not a replacement for larger organizing efforts but in addition. Nobody can do everything but everyone can do something. This is day 3.

Today's action: make donations. I've never done recurring/auto donations before. Today, I'm signing up to give regularly to a human rights org, an immigrant aid org, and a nonprofit news org.

A recent sunset over water just because .....

When you use Pharisee as a slur but try to say it’s not antisemitic it’s like arguing that saying “that’s so gay” as an insult but not intending to refer to same sex love is magically thus not actually homophobic or harmful to queer people.

​​A bingo card (created by myfreebingocards.com) with five rows and five columns. Top (first row), left to right: Holiday that Isn't Hanukkah/Mizrahi Experience/MG or YA/Disability Rep/Non-Holocaust Novel. Second row: LGBT Rep/Exile/Sephardic Experience/Play or Screenplay/Short-Story Collection. Third row: Social Justice-Tikkun Olam/Written by a Rabbi/FREE SPACE/Frum Rep/Weekly Torah Portion. Fourth row: Set Before 1900/Israeli History/Comics-Graphic Narrative/Translated Book/American Experience (Outside NYC) Fifth row: Picture-Book Biography (not Anne Frank or Ruth Bader Ginsburg)/Written by a Jew by Choice/Poetry/Written by a Jew of Color/Diaspora Experience (Outside the U.S.)

Here's one way to celebrate #JewishBookMonth: Take up the challenge I created for the occasion a couple of Novembers ago. (Original inspiration: @thez.bsky.social's #ReadsOfAwe challenge.)

God is not omnipotent, and with that claim, God’s omnibenevolence shines strong…Theodicy [the problem of evil] retreats as an intellectual puzzle and becomes what the prophets supposed it to be: a goad to action.” — Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson in God of Becoming and Relationship

“God’s love is reliable and persistent and irrepressible…at each and every moment, God is giving us and all creation the capacity to rise to the right choice, is holding out that best possible choice to us, is granting the ability to be self-transcending…

“God’s love is stronger thank anything—not as something separate that beams down from above, but as a steady inspiring capability you have within.” — Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson in God of Becoming and Relationship.

@sboyarin.bsky.social my 15yo’s favorite band is Sabaton. Got any Ashki- metal recs he’d like to settle a bet?

Thanks!!

“Dissent is a spiritual practice.” —Molly T. Marshall

"...When I say that God dwells in us, I mean possibility lives in us. Hope lives in us. Kindness lives in us. Truth and justice live in us. No amount of cruelty or coercion, bullying or gaslighting, can take these away. (1/)

Screenshot of this text with the three lines on the lower right corner circled in red. You can very quickly and easily add ALT to an image with text in it. If you open the ALT editor and click these three little lines it will allow you to simply copy and paste the text into the field Takes seconds!

You can very quickly and easily add ALT to an image with text in it. If you open the ALT editor in the iPhone app and click these three little lines it will allow you to simply copy and paste the text into the field. Takes seconds!

Posts + Replies Media Patrick@fanxioustastic.bsky.social •2m I do not remember things that did not happen. • Removed by you •••

For the newbies, one of the great features on here is that when someone has tried to quote-post dunk on you, hit the … and select “detach quote” and nobody will see the post or who wrote it and they will look like an asshole. (Blocking works like this too.)

What are we reading for Lent this year?

I’m doing the adoption process through the Society for Humanistic Judaism.

I’m curious—how does one convert to humanistic Judaism if there are no such congregations in the area? (Asking for a friend—me.)

I feel this, too. It’s so interesting how similar our stories are. I’m in my last Intro to Judaism class right now and hoping to convert Reform.

*Suchocki

Good for you! I’m still perched on the precipice of whether to convert to Judaism or not. I’d love to see where your journey takes you.

The mummy “wrapped in God’s love.”

No Swedenborg?!

1. Elizabeth A. Johnson
2. Madeleine L’Engle (concept of heaven in A Wrinkle in Time)
3. Marjorie Suhocki
4. Richard Rohr
5. Ilia Delio
6. Talmud

Wait, what did I miss?

I feel this so much.