This article presents vocabulary and approaches for expressing LGBTQ+ identities and practices, which derive from Jewish tradition used by queer Jews in the Seattle area. From thirty-four semi-structured interviews with affiliates of Seattle Jewish life, the authors identify eight tokens of queer Jewish English vocabulary, including multilingual wordplay used to construct new terms for queer concepts, the mechitza as a spatial idiom for transgender identity, and “Talmudic genders” being reclaimed as contemporary nonbinary identities. Additionally, queer Jews utilize a variety of approaches to navigate Hebrew, from formal efforts like the Nonbinary Hebrew Project to invoking low-proficiency-driven circumlocution. These approaches demonstrate that queer Jews draw on a range of linguistic and cultural resources to describe their identities and experiences, and the distribution of queer language reflects the continued challenge cis-heteronormatively gendered religious practices present for queer Jews and the corresponding need for queer Jewish vocabulary to make space within them.

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在 Mechitza 的错误一边长大：当代酷儿犹太语言的案例研究

本文介绍了表达的词汇和方法同志+ 身份和实践，源自西雅图地区酷儿犹太人使用的犹太传统。从对西雅图犹太人生活附属机构的 34 次半结构化访谈中，作者确定了酷儿犹太英语词汇的八个标记，包括用于构建酷儿概念新术语的多语言文字游戏，机械作为跨性别身份的空间习语，“塔木德性别”被重新定义为当代非二元身份。此外，酷儿犹太人利用各种方法来驾驭希伯来语，从非二进制希伯来语项目等正式努力到调用低熟练度驱动的迂回说法。这些方法表明，酷儿犹太人利用一系列语言和文化资源来描述他们的身份和经历，酷儿语言的分布反映了对酷儿犹太人的顺式异性恋宗教习俗的持续挑战以及对酷儿犹太人词汇的相应需求在他们里面腾出空间。