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omg

<3

<3 <3

I LOVE YOU MICHAAAA

<3 <3

^^^^

got me bawling at 830am TYSM

transfarmers!! transformers! trans farming as trans forming!!!!

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL ROOM OF HUMANS

ive got my sidebar set so i see shoshana at the top and our four panelists right below her!

Yes Ori!

i wish i had the computer power to turn on my cam too - love you all to life

<3 finnigannnn

twinkliesssss

infinite snaps!!!!!!!!!

AMEN

<3 <3 <3 <3

👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽

shechiyanu!!!!

!!!!

dannnnng

shehechyanu nontheless <3

trans farmers or trans jewish?

✨✨✨✨

WOW!!!!

SHEHECH!

Mazel mazel mazel

Shechyanu!!!!

me too shosh. <3

shosh is the cutest beekeeper i know :)

ooooh, snaps to that la’akea

"apprentice to uncertainty"

“Apprentice to uncertainty” :o Swoon. Wow

Yup

pshhhhhh

^^

Yesssss

yessss

lol thank you for saying it was a communism joke, my earnest ass thought it was about being plural/a system

^^ mood ori

(which I am not, but I know some excellent folks who are!)

WOOT WOOT

hi beautiful friends 😍😍😍😍

<3 <3 <3 pshh pshhh

MAZEL TOV!

#goodforthejews

garlic!<3

ughhh what an honor to be here and taste your brains <3

amen molly

AMEN

keyn y’hi ratzon, shosh

amen!!!

^^^^^ im like giddy happy that this exists and that I am here for it right noww, this is unreal!

<3

*SNAPS*

^^

mmmm baruch hashem for that!

Is there a network or a discord or something where trans jewish farmer folks chat regularly? // can there be

omg please, that would be a dream

Is there a good place for ppl to drop their discord Ids or something

folks can direct message you if youre willing to consolidate @aryeh

Shoshana and Simcha facilitate a Queer Jewish Farmer space 2x/month! Many trans farmers are in the space. Email them at queerfarmers@jewishfarmernetwork.org

Thank you SJ!

plunging "as a plug"

pshhhh I resonate with that, micha

so beautiful

YEP

yes.

mmhmmm

the realest joke

ameennnn simcha

thank you simcha

Pssshhhhhhh!

The world asks for it to be a joke and it’s so not

mmmmmm !!!!!

ooooooOOOO tingles in my bones rn

oooooooooOOOOOFF

yes

gorgeous

So moved by that wow

WOWWWW!!!!

yes^!!

Mmmmmmmmmm

Crying? Speechless?

I'm wondering if any of the panelists can speak to disability, the inherent ableism of the majority of farming (required to be able to work physically 60hours/week), and if there's any hope for a disabled person who wants to apprentice, with the reality being that i won't know how much work i can put in day day-to-day, and/or if you know anyone I can talk to about farming as a disabled person (are there farms that allow for flexible work, etc.)?

can you say that phrase again that you’re going to embroider? we missed it!

Its in the transcript!

^ ^ ^

I need to be able to be myself in a room full of 700 chickens,if I'm to have any hope of being able to be myself anywhere else in

yesss I resonate with that, @shoshana

Yes please to Freygl’s question! Think that ties so deeply into what La’akea was saying about ways farming can be extracting from bodies and reductive of our bodies to labor

^^^

yes thank you so deeply freygl!

yes to freygyl's question please

shosh, i'm crying. <3

also probably distinct smells! to animal-beings

...FUCK I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT GOD'S SENSE OF SMELL BEFORE

Yes. The plants and soil too recognize us.

<3

wanna bump @freygl’s question!

lol thanks micha

so incredible Micha!

Shamati! I hear you!

Shamati shamati neshama!!!!

Shamati :)

shemati sweet holy human

i would love to talk about freygl’s question and how it is so inherently linked to capitalism. that if farmers are expected to sustain a farm through selling food, it means farmers are the ones who take the cut to keep food prices affordable, and how it is intertwined with everyone needing access to food and that farmers are the ones who have been tasked with making that possible by working ridiculous weeks or unsustainably. as trans folks we are also so often just fucking broke. how do we find ways to make sure we can still eat as farmers and also be truly inclusive?

@Tzomi ^^

Whewf, “afraid of instituting big changes”

such good and important questions!!

I’m also very interested in thought about ableism and farming, but I wonder if that could be fleshed out in a separate panel/discussion? Loving the trans focus and love flowing here and now!

amazing questions yall, we'll hopefully have some time for questions at the end of the panel so keep em coming!

honestly like farmers just need to be paid a basic income to make food to the best of our abilities, it’s the only reasonable way under capitalism i have been able to think of

such a beautiful question @tzomi. i’m also thinking about the potent and bright threads of connection between what it means to be a queer body farmer and a disabled body farmer. they are so connected and have so much to inform each other and i’m buzzing with the potential space and form that could be materialized through this exploration!

http://transtorah.org/PDFs/Blessing_for_Transitioning_Genders.pdf

i asked the question here because i am never not disabled and trans at the same time. there's not a space where my disability ends and my transness begins or vice versa

amen amen shoshana

^^^^^

Shamati, Freygl

@freygl same, right? so hard. on my own farm permaculture-styles of growing have been one big part of the solution. as well as telling all my customers that deliveries will be to their door whenever i am able in a certain date range because sometimes i can’t make the same delivery day each week. permaculture-style growing like lasagna beds and perennials etc make it so much easier for my body to handle and are much more forgiving when needing to be ‘untended’ for a few days because of flare ups

there is a place near me called Open Sky that has a different approach to disability and farming, too. they might be interesting for you to look up

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How do I contact Simcha / anyone else who makes klaf? (I'm a Kohenet student and going to start studying sofrut (ritual scribing) this year!

queerjewishfarmers@gmail.com Simcha is actually going to lead a session on klaf soon!

Also definitely interested in a conversation about ableism and farming! It’s so rarely given space. I’m wondering if this panel isn’t necessarily the most informed to be addressing this question. Can we connect in some way so we can form a space to center disability? I would love to exchange emails to organize this. My partner and I are at Isaac.zerkle@gmail.com and brigitte.demelo@gmail.com

!!!!!!!!! thank you Jack!

and i think it totally weaves

Thank you Sam!

disability is queered ability in my experience, and i hear whats being said about it being involved and also deserving its own space

ooooo finnigan!! disabiltiy as queered ability

^^^^^

the subtle ableism of ppl suggesting the topic doesn't belong here is hurtful.

able-bodied and able-minded are temporary, fleeting states that few maintain their whole lives

some farming practices I can think of that could be done in a chair or without heavy lifting: mushroom cultivation, raised beds, greenhouse seedlings where the plants are on tables, guriella planting (scattering seeds), tending bushes and harvesting berries.

^^^^

curious what other options we can collectively come up with

!!!!!

so affirming just to hear this named

Grafting can be done while seated

YES

FMILY FARMING marketing drives me crazy.

We are our family.

Ha. I can't even spell it.

However can be harmful for those with chronic arm pain or joint pain

I’m thinking too about what farming might look like if rest was at the center of it, instead of work

This ^^^^^

Cooperative farming supports accessibility. Not everyone has to do the same things on the farm. But assistive technology is lagging- especially around outdoor mobility.

yes

^^^^^^^ SHABBAT!

yesssssss. the shmita intensives this afternoon are gonna be Good

I have chronic pain and physical disabilities, and found that for me, working as an educational farmer allows so much more space for slowing down, not focusing as much on high levels of production/efficiency

weekdays are chol ha’moed shabbat

yes, K - intensively farmed areas dont leave room for chairs and other mobility aids

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And the mobility aids that exist for outdoor access are too expensive.

I have to get the call early - revelling in so many threads touched on here- thanks so much for all the panelists!

love you sj

(chol ha’moed are the days in between chag for long festivals like sukkot and pesach - they’re not just regular secular days, they’re slightly elevated because they’re sandwiched between holy days — what if we thought about weekdays as slightly elevated days between shabbats?) @leroy

and we might rig the vote towards a conversation about differing abilities

@neshama and cole, yes yes yes so much yes.

like rest is always centered

https://groundswellcenter.org/november-farming-for-justice-recording-unpacking-race-and-disability-injustices-on-the-land/

What website was that?

^link to the session La'a was talking about

The way everyone is articulating ‘production farming’ vs other types is really illuminating. I install/maintain residential veggie gardens for people and have been afraid that farming would be “too intense” for me. another example of how topics related to disability are relevant for anybody/everybody :)

no shade shani but ive seen in my self-advocacy work a move away from ‘different abilities’ towards explicitly ‘disabilities’ :)

thanks for the heads up finnigan!

"it's hard out here, [and] we're thriving"

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L’dor v’dor!

the way that womanhood and gestational ability is conflated hurts everyone - trans women, trans men, infertile cis women, and so many more

this understanding of trans ancestors is the same as the jewish understanding of ancestors. all jews are our ancestors, including those who are jews by choice

umein!

YES

We’re actively visioning/ desiring AND currently living, loving, breathing, creating, growing in Olam Ha-ba (the futureeeee, we are so future-full)

TRANS JEWISH FUTURITY

^^

^^^^

olam haba in olam hazeh, living as the world to come in the world we are in

since Shoshone mentioned transcestors I thought I’d share this event happening this week that might interest folks. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/transcestors-gender-in-the-jewish-tradition-tickets-136038630205

trans folks so often have an astounding ability to exist in liminal spaces

*shoshana

...it says it's sold out :((@Sarah, transcestors)

Yes Simcha

whole box-a tissues yall

thank you each so much - your voices are so impactful and wonderful, im so grateful to you all. thank you also to folks in the chat adding amazing commentary and fullness, esp around disability!!

I’m so grateful for this panel. I’ve been mulching and your words and magic has been really healing. thank you all

ahh i'm completely kvelling over this conversation & all this brilliant sharing on the panel (and chat)! thank you Simcha, Shoshana, La'akea, Micha, Sam! <3

this entire panel was a poem. thank you.

thank y’all so much for sharing your brilliance with us <3

Shoshana you're an incredible moderator! <3

soooo many tingles and zipppiesss. wow. amen v amen. what a kavod to be here

AMEIN!

yesss sosh! amen!!!!

amennnnn

amen!

AMEEEEYN

ameyn!

ammeennnn <3

amen, shkoyach

afuckinmen

Thank you for all of this

thank you shossshhhhh

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR BEAUTIFUL WISDOM!

Hope to see you all later!!

thank you everyone!!!!

Thank you this was amazing!!

That was astounding!!!

one more time, if you want more community queerjewishfarmers@gmail.com

Thank you!!

<3 <3!!!

thank you!!!!!!

thanks all!!!!!!!

Thank you!

thank you

Love you all

Thank you!!!!

amazing deep gratitude!!!!

Deep love and gratitude!!