Rebekah is an artist, ritualist, teacher, community herbalist and somatic healer. They are disabled. They are committed to supporting community in remembering our inherent belonging to earth. They celebrate the beauty of Jewish diaspora with QMP, the Dreaming the World to Come Podcast and organizing locally on Squaxin land. They have spent their adult life immersed in movement for abolition and economic justice. As a somatic healer they support people encouraging a felt sense of the natural intelligence of our bodies. They teach earth based practices and mysticism; create ritual tools, liturgy and art - re-enchanting them with liberatory frameworks.

Rebekah loves co-conspiring with the QMP team transforming Judaism beyond Zionism through building community, curating events, offering ritual, grant writing and overall watering dreams of liberation. They’re also an art and design geek and behind many of the QMP visuals.

www.rebekaherevstudio.com

Rebecca is an artist and cultural worker engaging in place-based art and research projects. Her recent work reflects studies of cultural and land-based practices of her Jewish and Filipino ancestors. She often works in collaboration with local organizations or groups to facilitate the exchange of knowledge intergenerationally and interculturally. She received her MFA from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa in Honolulu in 2020 and is pursuing her doctoral studies as a MEXT Scholar at Hiroshima City University in Japan.

Rebecca is particularly fond of mc-ing QMP events, grant writing, and learning more about mikveh. As one of the QMP international members, Rebecca also enjoys the philosophical spieling and drawing cross-cultural connections between anti-zionist Jewish thinking, land-based rituals, and indigenous cosmologies and ways of being. She is a history nerd, art lover, and is most at home in the kitchen.

patreon.com/rrrebecca

Kyle is a non-binary, queer, Black, Jewish, disabled ritualist, organizer, singer, voice actor, captioner, audio description writer and movement bookkeeper. They live on Muscogee and Seminole land in South Florida, where they organize with South Florida JVP. They are trained through the intermediate level in the Somatic Experiencing trauma healing modality. You can find out more about their voice acting work on their website.

Kyle is mostly made of fire and air, and passionately supports Queer Mikveh Project’s commitment to indigenous solidarity through ritual and song. With their Venus in Virgo, they also love to support people and projects they care about with holding down the logistics and deeply enjoy supporting Queer Mikveh’s Project work in these earthy ways.

www.kyleroccoeast.com

Rosa, an educator, mikveh guide, spiritual director, coach, and writer, founded Reclaiming Indigeneity to reconnect with her Muisca roots in Boyaca, Colombia. She teaches decolonization, drawing from her training in anti-oppression education in the Paulo Freire model. Rosa holds a Bachelor of Arts and Science from the University of Toronto.

QMP has hosted Rosa in offering the workshops Are Jews Indigenous? and Allyship on Turtle Island. She also contributed to our Water Ritual for Palestine.

Lukaza is an artist, activist, educator, storyteller, cultural worker and person of multitudes. Through a practice based in the printed multiple, community-based work and installation building, they invite the viewer to recall and share their own lived narratives, offering power and weight to the creation of a larger dialogue around the telling of Black, Indigenous, Queer, Trans, People of color stories.Learn more at: www.lukazabranfmanverissimo.com

Lukaza contributed to our Passover Liberation: Smoke & Steam, Days of Awe, Pride and L.A./Tongva Mikvehs, as well as 2020 zine insert.

Nicki is a transdisciplinary artist working primarily in clay. Her sculptures, ritual objects and various flat works explore topics of history preservation, conceptual ornamentation and aesthetics of otherness. She's exhibited worldwide, notably in La Biennale de Lyon and the New Museum. Green is Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Alfred University.

Nicki contributed to the Pride Mikveh, is featured in our trailer, did the cover for the Simple Queer Mikveh zine.

Zephyr Elise is a mixed Indigenous (Hñühñä, Be'ena' Za'a, Euskal) & Sephardic/Mizrahi Jewish filmmaker, Liberation activist, & founding member of the Lorax coalition, an autonomous network fighting to save older growth forests. They are currently reconnecting to their Jewish ancestral lands in Morocco & Andalusia. Check out their forest defense documentary here.

Zephyr contributed to our Queer Jews for Palestine panel, and our Water Ritual for Palestine.

Aliko , born and raised in Seattle, Washington to a French Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish mother and Caribbean father, is a first-generation, trans, Blaxk-presenting, bilingual Jewish entrepreneur and producer. He is Founder and director of multiple companies, a coach, event producer, designer, speaker, and anti-capitalist somatic historian. Through his diverse ventures, expertise, and identities, he dedicates himself to carving out spaces for humanity.

Aliko contributed to our Sukkot Rain Mikveh and our Days of Awe Mikveh.

Dr. Wimms is a licensed psychologist and prayer leader in the Kohenet community and Hinenu: The Baltimore Justice Shtiebl. She is the inaugural Jews of Engagement Fellow within The Associated and a Schusterman Fellow. She founded the Jews of Color Mishpacha Project, including its JOCSM Shabbatonim.

Dr. Wimms contributed to our Days of Awe, Sukkot Rain and Smoke and Steam: Passover mikvaot.

Kat is a disabled nuevoleonese artist, librarian, and zinemaker based in North Texas. Through research and embodied artistic practices, Kat works to contextualize the stories and histories of the borderlands between Texas and Mexico. Insta @prickly.prayers

Kat is a former QMP team member, and contributed to our 2020 Queer Mikveh zine insert, and our Passover Liberation: Smoke & Steam Mikveh.

Zuriel (he/they) serves on the Cultural Organizing Team of Linke Fligl, and co-edits the queer, radical, Diasporist land project’s zines. He's matriculating with a Masters in Theological Studies and Certificate in Sexuality and Religion from Pacific School of Religion this May. His research emphases are translation and embodiment. Connect at Zbh-poetics.com.

Zuriel contributed to our Passover Liberation: Smoke & Steam Mikveh and Days of Awe Mikveh.

Oren is a queer artist, facilitator, and member of May First Movement Technology Cooperative living on stolen Kumeyaay land. As a survivor of abuse with an early lack of trust in water, Oren is grateful for Queer Mikveh Project’s support in reconnecting with the sacred, their body, and water.

Oren helps make QMP events possible in the COVID pandemic by running tech for our virtual gatherings.

Dean is the author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next), and the director of the documentary “Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!,.”

Dean contributed to our Queer Jews for Palestine Panel.

Hadar, an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic, and artist, founded Malchut, a school teaching Jewish mysticism and direct experience of God. As a 10th-generation Jerusalemite, she merges spirituality with politics through performance art, writing, music, and ritual. Hadar's podcast, "Hadar’s Web," fosters community conversations on spirituality, healing, justice, and art. Visit hadarcohen.me and malchut.one.

Hadar contributed to our Queer Jews for Palestine panel.

Mordecai (he/they) has nearly 30 years of experience as a multi-sector social justice activist, organizer, holistic healer, fundraiser, radical scholar, and educator. He is the Founding Director of the Health Justice Commons, serves as Sins Invalid's Director of Development, and co-founded the TGI Justice Project.

Mordecai contributed to our Queer Jews for Palestine panel.

Bennie (he/him) is a white, queer & trans, anti-zionist, Ashkenazi Jew, pediatric emergency department nurse, and rabble-rouser who organizes with JVP Seattle.

Bennie contributed to our Queer Jews for Palestine panel.

Penny is a lifelong white Ashkenazi Jewish queer activist. Her award-winning book, Hope into Practice, Jewish women choosing justice despite our fears," explores Jewish women's pursuit of justice. She leads racial justice efforts at her Oakland synagogue, teaches on activism, and co-teaches a class on Antisemitism/Anti-Arabism. She is a founding board member of Jewish Voice for Peace. Visit PennyRosenwasser.com.

Penny contributed to our Queer Jews for Palestine panel.

Rae (she/they) is a ritualist, social change strategist, writer, and facilitator. A trainer at Beautiful Trouble, Rae co-created the global Climate Ribbon art ritual. Rae contributes to books like "Beyond Tribal Loyalties" and support authors at the spirituality-social change nexus through CreateWell consultancy. Rae facilitates innovation labs for freshwater conservation at The Agility Lab. Connect at createwell.io | @raeabileah.

Rae contributed to our Queer Jews for Palestine panel.

Dov (any pronoun) co-founded Who Profits from the Occupation, the Coalition of Women for Peace, and Black Laundry direct action group in Palestine/ Israel. Now based in the Bay Area, they serve as Director of Corporate Accountability and Research at the American Friends Service Committee. In this role, Dov supports global initiatives holding corporations accountable for complicity in state violence. AFSC.org/ACCA @DalitBaum

Dov contributed to our Queer Jews for Palestine panel.

Nomy is an artist, a singer, a kohenet/hebrew priestess, and the Creative Director of Sins Invalid. Nomy creates ritual tools and experiences for their queer, disabled, and Jewish communities. They live on Squaxin land.

Nomy contributed to our Water Ritual for Palestine.

Rose (they/them) is a social justice organizer, data scientist, and parent. Rose’s mother is Ashkenazi Jewish and father is mestizo Mexican. A graduate of Aleph’s Earth-Based Judiaism program, Rose's research explores Jewish birth and postpartum. Connect at roseespinola.com.

Rose contributed to our Sukkot Rain Mikveh.

Imani is a freelance writer and emerging documentary producer dedicated to sharing the narratives of colonized peoples. She is a Jewish woman of color with Black, Jewish, and distant Choctaw ancestry. Raised in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, she received a a BA in Global Studies and an MA in Indigenous Journalism. She serves on the boards of The Pōpolo Project and Hawai‘i Women in Filmmaking and is a fellow with the International Documentary Association.

Imani contributed to our Sukkot Rain Mikveh and is an organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace Hawai’i.

Koach is a healer, musician and co-founder of Tzedek Lab, a network of practitioners working at the intersection of dismantling racism, antisemitism, and white supremacy. Insta @drkbfrazier

Koach contributed to our Passover Liberation: Smoke & Steam Mikveh.

Chani is a dancer and filmmaker based in the Bay Area. She makes interdisciplinary-collaborative-queer feminist imagery for the stage, gallery, and internet. www.chanibockwinkel.com @chanibocks

Chani contributed video documentation for our California events, co-conducted video interviews for the QMP archive and co-creative directed our videos in and person events.

Dori is a community care worker/healer, theologian, and ritualist re-enchanting traditions from her sephardic and ashkenazi lineages towards collective healing and liberation. Dori teaches on Jewish plant and protection magic, writes liturgy, weaves radical, queer Jewish community ritual spaces and makes good trouble for Palestinian liberation, prison abolition, and queer/trans liberation. dorimidnight.com ig: @dorimidnight

Dori contributed to our Jewish Voice for Peace Mikveh.

ALY is a kohenet/Hebrew priestess, Jewitch ritualist, visual artist, sacred activist, word weaver, healing healer, singer/songwriter, star reader and rider, Ashki, cis-gendered, kitty cats tender, support group leader, queer, disAbled she/her.

ALY contributed to our Days of Awe Mikveh.