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A jam submission

Shacharit: For the Twilight PeopleView project page

This is a booklet for the Jewish morning weekday prayers.
Submitted by queermachmir — 28 days, 17 hours before the deadline
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Ezra Saville
Poetry in 'Transvestia' Issue #6
Jewish, trans, lover of Torah and the Divine.
tumblr: queermachmir

Synopsis
CW: mention of needles/medical equipment in a poem

This is a siddur for shacharit, or dawn/morning prayers, centered around transness and divinity. If you're Jewish, you will understand. Alongside traditional liturgy, there is my own poetry and photography.

The text document only has the poems as Hebrew and other formatting will not register in a txt file. While the poems stand on their own, their order makes more sense with the liturgy being involved as they connect with each other.

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"Shacharit: For the Twilight People" by Ezra Saville (tumblr). Ezra explains "This is a siddur for shacharit, or dawn/morning prayers, centered around transness and divinity. If you're Jewish, you will understand. Alongside traditional liturgy, there is my own poetry and photography. In Judaism, trans people are often represented by twilight due to its liminal properties.  This siddur focuses in on poetry about transness, divinity, and love for G!d. Shacharit is "dawn", the prayers for when a Jew wakes up every morning. This is specifically for weekday and having no minyan." This is the largest submission I've received so far and I really love the clear dedication, thought, and love that went into compiling these translations of prayers. The photos taken by Ezra as well are also very beautiful and just look amazing with the formatting and separation within the design of this book. I'm not Jewish myself, so I can't claim to appreciate nor understand this from a personal place, or firsthand experience. I can however tell you I find spirituality and listening and learning about all different spiritual experiences and how faith intersects with marginalization to be something that is deeply important to me and a lot of people I care about.

There are many spiritual ways trans people can have a relationship with religion, and often those relationships involve their transness or experiences with gender. It's important that we recognize this and welcome, encourage, and respect the many different ways faith, politics, and marginalization can play a symbiotic role in peoples lives. This was a really great chapbook to read, and as I've said before, I think translations are the future of poetry and writing in general. Combating the supremacy of English as the "primary language" forced upon so many people in complete disrespect of their cultures and history. I will absolutely be recommending this chapbook to any of my Jewish trans friends who might be interested, and I'm very grateful to have had all of these beautiful prayers shared with me and the jam.

"G!d is the bearer of many names, just like you. G!d is He, She, Ze, They, Em, Xe, Fae, It, and All. G!d knows what is it like to take on role of Parent, Sibling, Caretaker, Mourner, Lover, Friend, Leader, and Healer. G!d shares the Divine Image with you, so do best to take care of it and affirm it as yours for it is Their body, too."