Jewish Autonomous Queers

Author: Glitch

  • How to Join Mastodon

    Mastodon is a text-first way of accessing the fediverse. You can read more about what that is and why you might care here. (This used to be part of that post, but we’ve split it off to make this more manageable.) With Mastodon, you can post images, videos and audio, but the interface emphasises text.…

  • How to Join Pixelfed

    Pixelfed is an image-first way of accessing the fediverse. You can read more about what that is and why you might care here. We’re going to cover up how to sign up a phone, but the interface via a laptop or other computer is virtually identical, so everyone can follow along. pix.lgbt is a Pixelfed…

  • We’ve joined Insta, but don’t follow us There

    We’ve joined Insta, but don’t follow us There

    We’ve all seen the pictures from Trump’s inauguration – Elon Musk, CEO of Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram; stood in the front row. And of Musk giving a Nazi salute. The CEO of TikTok was not in those pictures, but he was also there. It seems like every corporate social…

  • Hello, Fedi

    We are trying to up our social media presence, but without updating our home page as often as we most post on socials. So this is a test of a fedi-only post. Hopefully, you will see this post, but people looking at our homepage won’t.

  • Weekday Morning Minyans

    Weekday Morning Minyans

    Our weekly Shacharit services continue in to their second month! The LGBT Centre has added a page for booking, for people haven’t been before. Our regular schedule is: 7:30: Doors, laying tefillin (please bring your own if you have them. We do not yet have any to lend out) 7:45: Service starts 8:15: Kaddish and…

  • What Is Service Leading?

    What Is Service Leading?

    Find out what it means to lead a service on Sunday 15th December 10am-12noon. A 2hr online session exploring “what is service leading” – we’ll look at what skills are needed, what we already have and what we can develop. This is open to everyone! This is appropriate both for people who are sure they…

  • Learn to Lead Services

    Learn to Lead Services

    Have you ever wondered about learning to lead a service? We are arranging some training with a London-based teacher to build skills in the community! There are going to be three parts – two on zoom, one in person. The first is open to all and the second and third tailored to participants in the…

  • Weekday Minyans Starting in November

    Weekday Minyans Starting in November

    Starting the first week in November, there will be a new queer weekday morning minyan. Every service with enough people will include a kaddish. The minhag of any particular service will be set by the leader that week. This group will also offer opportunities to learn to lead prayers, including a buddy system. We hope…

  • No To Racism

    No To Racism

    “You shall not wrong or oppress a stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” – Exodus 22:20 As fascists terrorise our streets, we must stand up to be counted against racism. As Jews, we and our ancestors have been migrants and refugees. The same forces that have persecuted us are now persecuting…

  • First Post

    The news so far: Still to do