QMP Retreat

Photos and film stills by Kai Tillman and Chani Bockwinkel

In 2018 a group of trans and queer artists and ritualists gathered on the Northern Pomo coast, Mendocino, CA for three days of deepening community, co-creating and queering ritual and celebration. Our time together included studying text and investigating the roots of mikveh practice, building a collective altar and tallit, tied with rainbow tzitzit, and engaging with mikveh in the sea.

A group of smiling queer young people with a range of brown, tawny and light skin gather on a beach at night.
A ceramic pot holding water rests at the center of an artfully arranged altar. The altar also holds pictures of ancestors and plant clippings.
A group of of queer young people with brown, tawny and light skin gather around a multi-colored cloth in field as the sun sets.
Brown, tawny and light skinned hands touch two loaves of challah resting on a table next to two lit Shabbat candles.
A tawny-skinned queer person rests on a couch, while a light-skinned person and a bronze-skinned person sit on a chair and stand, looking in the same direction.
A tawny-skinned queer person and a light brown-skinned person hold a cord together outside on grass.
Young queer people dressed in coats walk on the beach towards the water at sunset.
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