Hey Sweeties!🟦 A new year on the Jewish calendar has begun! Whether this is something you personally celebrate or not, here's hoping that 5786 is more peaceful, more hopeful, more prosperous, and more joyful than 5785 was! Gd bless us all! 🙏🤎🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇮🇱🎗️🌍
Hey Sweeties! 🟦 I wish I was up to posting more often. My mental health (like that of so many others) has been kinda 💩 lately. But we're all still here. We WILL get through this, together! Please always remember that you are valid and loved! 🙏❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🩵🩷🤍🫂🇮🇱🎗️
Hey Sweeties! 🟦🎗️ Okay, my technologically challenged side is showing... I tried to do an "easy" post with a picture. But new phone (one of those free ones, replacing a previous, malfunctioning free one) is giving me a hard time accessing pictures. A wonderful person at my synagogue brought in a big batch of pronoun pins... in Hebrew! *Including neutral ones, which demonstrates the evolution of the language!* Hebrew is a very gendered language, and as far as my non-fluent self knows, there didn't used to be any ungendered/neutral words. This is especially exciting to me as a parent of a non-binary person! Anyway, I intend to share a picture of some of the pronoun pins when I can make the technology cooperate. 😅 Whatever language you use, whatever pronouns you use, wherever you are, you are valid and loved! 🙏🫂❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🩵🩷🤍🇮🇱🎗️
Hey Sweeties! 🟦🎗️ I believe that everyone with a public platform (of any size) who knows what's going on is obligated to do their best to share important information. And yes, I put this off for a few days... First of all, I must confess that I don't know the very latest developments. *I am SO tempted to tell y'all just go subscribe to Noa Tishby here on YouTube, as that's where I'm getting most of my information. She's knowledgeable, eloquent, and reliable. I am a pacifist by nature. As such, I recognize that those who are bent on violent domination need to be stopped. Am I to be among those who thank our current president for (without going through proper channels) did a needed thing? No. But I acknowledge it. Iran is currently being controlled by a violent, bigoted, dangerous regime. (Sound familiar?) Ensuring that they don't have nuclear capability is safer for the world, like it or not. No matter what @$$holes are in charge of *any* country or region, the innocent civilians deserve to live their lives in safety, security, health, and authenticity. I don't know what else to say. Please stay safe, everyone! Wherever you're from, whoever makes the rules that you find yourself living by, please always remember that you are valid and loved. 🙏🫂❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🩵🩷🤍🇮🇱🎗️
Hey Sweeties! 🟦🎗️ Tomorrow, June 14th, there will be *peaceful* demonstrations for No Kings Day all over the US. Whatever y'all may have planned, please stay safe! Also, Sunday will be Father's Day here in the US. Let's hear it for the bio dads, adoptive dads, honorary dads (looking at you, Roger!) seahorse dads, and step dads. Did I miss any category? Please let me know! Whether or not being a parent is for you (and whether or not you attend protests) you are valid and loved! 🙏❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🩵🤍🩷🇮🇱🫂
Hey Sweeties! 🟦🎗️ I was just thinking of something I read a few years ago, about the laws of levirate marriage. (When, in a hetero marriage, the husband dies and there's no heir. If he has a brother, the brother is supposed to marry the widow, if she agrees. The first offspring of the union counts as the first husband's kid.) I remember it was talking about what men are excused or not excused from (offering to be in a) levirate marriage. I had to reread it several times, because I thought I was misunderstanding. But if the deceased man's brother is trans (ftm) he is *not* excused from this tradition! Why is this a good thing, and who cares anyway? Because a trans man can't impregnate his wife. But the marriage itself provides the wife with a protected legal status. Remember, this was a time and place that women had few, if any, rights. So it may LOOK like she is no more than a vessel, but the fact that a trans man can be the husband means 1) Halacha says trans rights! 2) women are more than just a uterus. Going into Pride Month, remember that religion is a way to celebrate who and what we are. If your religious tradition isn't allowing that, it may be time to look for something more life affirming. Either way, you are valid and loved! 🙏❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🩵🩷🤍🫂🇮🇱
Hey Sweeties! 🟦🎗️ It's Mother's Day here in the US. Thank you to my three kids, without whom I wouldn't be a mama! Happy Mother's Day to all of the moms. Biological, adoptive, step (looking at you, Jeannette) honorary (looking at you, Polly) bonus, and any other kind of mom. You're all valid! 💐💖 This is a picture I took of myself and my daughter the other day. It's not the best, but at the time, I didn't know she'd give me the go-ahead to post it! We're working toward living under the same roof again sometime soon. Whoever you are, whether being a parent is for you or not, you are valid! 🙏❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎💙🩷🤍✨
Hey Sweeties! 🟦🎗️ So, many things are not good right now. In my own life, and in the bigger picture. But some things are starting to look up, at least a little bit. Also in my own life as well as the bigger picture. Dr. Abraham Low said "Nervous people hate routine and fear change." He was correct! I'll soon be getting used to a new neighborhood. Still car-dwelling, unfortunately. For now. When something bigger and/or better is confirmed, I'll share. Meanwhile, despite (gestures all around vaguely ) I'm feeling more hopeful now than I have in months. Sending virtual mama hugs to you all! Chag Pesach Sameach! 🫓 🫂❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎💙🩷🤍🙏
Hey Sweeties! 🟦🎗️ Lots of days feel like an emotional rollercoaster right now. But today was mostly nice. Among other things, one of my neighbors in the Safe Parking Program gave me this flower, and said something about me being nice. (I frequently joke about myself being a raving b*tch, and this caught me off guard!) Anyway, this reminded me to be kinder in how I think/refer to myself. So let this post be YOUR reminder to be kind in how you think/refer to yourself! We are all fallible beings, doing our best each day. And we are all valid and loved. 🫂❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎💙🩷🤍🙏
Miss Naomi 613
Hey Sweeties!🟦
A new year on the Jewish calendar has begun! Whether this is something you personally celebrate or not, here's hoping that 5786 is more peaceful, more hopeful, more prosperous, and more joyful than 5785 was! Gd bless us all! 🙏🤎🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇮🇱🎗️🌍
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Miss Naomi 613
Hey Sweeties! 🟦
I wish I was up to posting more often. My mental health (like that of so many others) has been kinda 💩 lately. But we're all still here. We WILL get through this, together!
Please always remember that you are valid and loved!
🙏❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🩵🩷🤍🫂🇮🇱🎗️
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Miss Naomi 613
Hey Sweeties! 🟦🎗️
Okay, my technologically challenged side is showing... I tried to do an "easy" post with a picture. But new phone (one of those free ones, replacing a previous, malfunctioning free one) is giving me a hard time accessing pictures.
A wonderful person at my synagogue brought in a big batch of pronoun pins... in Hebrew! *Including neutral ones, which demonstrates the evolution of the language!* Hebrew is a very gendered language, and as far as my non-fluent self knows, there didn't used to be any ungendered/neutral words. This is especially exciting to me as a parent of a non-binary person! Anyway, I intend to share a picture of some of the pronoun pins when I can make the technology cooperate. 😅
Whatever language you use, whatever pronouns you use, wherever you are, you are valid and loved!
🙏🫂❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🩵🩷🤍🇮🇱🎗️
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Miss Naomi 613
Hey Sweeties! 🟦🎗️
I believe that everyone with a public platform (of any size) who knows what's going on is obligated to do their best to share important information. And yes, I put this off for a few days...
First of all, I must confess that I don't know the very latest developments. *I am SO tempted to tell y'all just go subscribe to Noa Tishby here on YouTube, as that's where I'm getting most of my information. She's knowledgeable, eloquent, and reliable.
I am a pacifist by nature. As such, I recognize that those who are bent on violent domination need to be stopped. Am I to be among those who thank our current president for (without going through proper channels) did a needed thing? No. But I acknowledge it. Iran is currently being controlled by a violent, bigoted, dangerous regime. (Sound familiar?) Ensuring that they don't have nuclear capability is safer for the world, like it or not. No matter what @$$holes are in charge of *any* country or region, the innocent civilians deserve to live their lives in safety, security, health, and authenticity.
I don't know what else to say. Please stay safe, everyone! Wherever you're from, whoever makes the rules that you find yourself living by, please always remember that you are valid and loved.
🙏🫂❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🩵🩷🤍🇮🇱🎗️
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Miss Naomi 613
Hey Sweeties! 🟦🎗️
Tomorrow, June 14th, there will be *peaceful* demonstrations for No Kings Day all over the US. Whatever y'all may have planned, please stay safe!
Also, Sunday will be Father's Day here in the US. Let's hear it for the bio dads, adoptive dads, honorary dads (looking at you, Roger!) seahorse dads, and step dads. Did I miss any category? Please let me know!
Whether or not being a parent is for you (and whether or not you attend protests) you are valid and loved!
🙏❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🩵🤍🩷🇮🇱🫂
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Miss Naomi 613
Hey Sweeties! 🟦🎗️
I was just thinking of something I read a few years ago, about the laws of levirate marriage. (When, in a hetero marriage, the husband dies and there's no heir. If he has a brother, the brother is supposed to marry the widow, if she agrees. The first offspring of the union counts as the first husband's kid.) I remember it was talking about what men are excused or not excused from (offering to be in a) levirate marriage. I had to reread it several times, because I thought I was misunderstanding. But if the deceased man's brother is trans (ftm) he is *not* excused from this tradition!
Why is this a good thing, and who cares anyway?
Because a trans man can't impregnate his wife. But the marriage itself provides the wife with a protected legal status. Remember, this was a time and place that women had few, if any, rights. So it may LOOK like she is no more than a vessel, but the fact that a trans man can be the husband means 1) Halacha says trans rights! 2) women are more than just a uterus.
Going into Pride Month, remember that religion is a way to celebrate who and what we are. If your religious tradition isn't allowing that, it may be time to look for something more life affirming. Either way, you are valid and loved!
🙏❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🩵🩷🤍🫂🇮🇱
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Miss Naomi 613
Hey Sweeties! 🟦🎗️
It's Mother's Day here in the US. Thank you to my three kids, without whom I wouldn't be a mama! Happy Mother's Day to all of the moms. Biological, adoptive, step (looking at you, Jeannette) honorary (looking at you, Polly) bonus, and any other kind of mom. You're all valid! 💐💖
This is a picture I took of myself and my daughter the other day. It's not the best, but at the time, I didn't know she'd give me the go-ahead to post it! We're working toward living under the same roof again sometime soon.
Whoever you are, whether being a parent is for you or not, you are valid!
🙏❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎💙🩷🤍✨
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Miss Naomi 613
Happy Earth Day, to all of my fellow Earthlings!
And isn't it also Lesbian Visibility Week?
🌍🙏💚🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇮🇱🎗️
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Miss Naomi 613
Hey Sweeties! 🟦🎗️
So, many things are not good right now. In my own life, and in the bigger picture. But some things are starting to look up, at least a little bit. Also in my own life as well as the bigger picture.
Dr. Abraham Low said "Nervous people hate routine and fear change." He was correct! I'll soon be getting used to a new neighborhood. Still car-dwelling, unfortunately. For now. When something bigger and/or better is confirmed, I'll share. Meanwhile, despite (gestures all around vaguely ) I'm feeling more hopeful now than I have in months.
Sending virtual mama hugs to you all!
Chag Pesach Sameach! 🫓
🫂❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎💙🩷🤍🙏
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Miss Naomi 613
Hey Sweeties! 🟦🎗️
Lots of days feel like an emotional rollercoaster right now. But today was mostly nice. Among other things, one of my neighbors in the Safe Parking Program gave me this flower, and said something about me being nice. (I frequently joke about myself being a raving b*tch, and this caught me off guard!)
Anyway, this reminded me to be kinder in how I think/refer to myself. So let this post be YOUR reminder to be kind in how you think/refer to yourself! We are all fallible beings, doing our best each day. And we are all valid and loved.
🫂❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎💙🩷🤍🙏
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