The surge in anti-Jewish hate has had a devasting impact on my mental health in the past 17 months. It's incredibly isolating to be a Jewish transgender woman right now.
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I’m so sorry you have to go through that. It’s been rough all over, but Jews in the LGBTQ community have gotten it worse than anybody else. Every queer Jew I know has reported the exact same experience, of being completely abandoned or outright turned on by all the communities they once saw as safe.
I wish there was something more I could say than just “that’s awful, nobody should go through that”, which feels so hollow and meaningless, but I don’t know what else I can say.
The gaslighting from antisemites--who outright ignore their own antisemitism when being called out--is not doing any favors. It's depressing. There's so much hate coming from people I thought were friends and allies, including colleagues.
I agree. The spectacle of young queer people in apolitical fandom spaces (especially) turning into rabid Jew-haters all at once is something I doubt I’ll ever get over. I knew there were Nazis, but I would never dreamed of these people becoming Nazis.
Meanwhile, I'm still doing a push for 20 new paying subscribers. Any revenue I make through the newsletter is helping offset the loss I'm taking with decreased readership and revenue through SATM. My voice as a Jewish transgender woman will not be silenced.
This is exactly what I was talking about the other day, only the antisemites read it completely incorrectly because of course they did. Apolitical fandom spaces decided to go Jew-free. I have friends who got kicked out of such FB groups for the mere fact that they were Jewish.
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