#feygele

[sproutflags]

"feygele" term reclaimed flag

a flag for Queer Jewish people who reclaim the term "feygele" (or one of its other many spellings)

The center symbol is a pink magen david whose points are made up of separated triangles (symbols that evoke the pink triangle forced upon gay individuals during the holocaust & which has been since reclaimed by the queer community tying together both Jewishness and Queerness here). Within that symbol is a light pink, almost white, little bird. feygele can also mean "little bird" in Yiddish. The background is a pink "rainbow" of stripes.

Though the term feygele has historically been used in a derogatory way particularly toward gay Jewish people, some queer Jewish people have since reclaimed the term for themselves. Because of this influx of Jewish folks of all parts of the LGBTQIA+ community reclaiming this term to describe themselves, including myself, I thought it would be nice to make an attempt at creating a flag for it. (Though you don't need to use the flag to reclaim it, obviously)

disclaimer: exclusive to Queer Jewish people. goyim and cishet people can reblog, but please don't use this flag if you're not jewish and queer!

[sheydgarden]

FEYGELE, 2020.

a sheyd (Jewish demon) inspired by two major stylistic influences, Leonard Baskin & Aubrey Beardsley, and also by the #AugustAdiPOSE & #FatArt hashtags on Twitter. the title/text “feygele” is a Yiddish word meaning “little bird” often used as pejorative slang for a queer person – here also playing off the figure’s size & the bird-like attributes of sheydim in folklore. a queer/trans fat Jewish aspiration!

paired with the poem “sheyd” from my chapbook:

commanded, as you are, to love the stranger,

must you not also be a refuge

to the strangest who reside among you?

call us in from the corners, we little birds

who sing in unfamiliar tongues: our cries

also reach heaven.

though our prayers take different forms

we too are people of the book;

we too keep our covenants, in the 

twilight places where we make our homes.

even as you safeguard yourselves fully against us,

so do you imprison a portion of the soul we share—

let there be spaces in your dwellings and your teachings

for us to come and go in peace.

we bring with us both the fear and the joy you have forgotten:

in the dust, in the ashes of your empires

shall you see our footprints.

[yeehaww-sims]

Hi! If you're still doing sims pride flag requests I have some for you! I would like: Anisohormonal, Alienic, Laughgender, Feygele, and Softfuzzygender Thank you!

Howdy, anon! I'm always doing pride flag requests ✨

You can find the requests in Requests [part 2]! They follow some other swatches I wanted to have for myself sdfkjlkds

[SFS] | [MF]

[Original flags post]

Current list of all requested flags below cut!

Oh also! The original Softfuzzygender flag that I found was extremely lowres and small, so I made a higher quality version of it! You can get it in higher quality [HERE]

[shtetlcore]

Happy Pesach wherever you are and however you sat it! Our unique cultural traditions are beautiful and worth celebrating!

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

I'm allowed to make this joke, but I love that Jewish death rituals are like:

"Pfeh, for what should I spend $12,000 on a big fekakte box they see only for five minutes before they cover it with dirt?"

"Don't waste my good suit what might fit my nephew Lev if the bum should ever even try to get a real job!"

"Embalming? Don't mind me, I'll rot in the dark."

[mwagneto]

okay I've been going crazy trying to find what the nazi calls aziraphale after he says sissy but i finally found itttt it's this

[stillflight]

I am an inhuman queer Jew and by G-d I love symbols

[quinloki]

Quin you have GOT to read Sakamoto Days it's one of the most fantastic Manga running today it's great

I'm certainly leaning toward it. @nagumoan has been very slowly, carefully, and completely incidentally luring me.

I think that one guy with all the tattoos is a bit unhinged, and I am intrigued by that.

[tozettastone]

Blorbo bingo Sakura or itachi

Itachi!

Itachi has pretty privilege in spite of and not because of his face, by the way.

[manorpunk]

[s1ck-b1tch-2]

Making pride bracelets for my friends, with our native language’s word for queer or faggot and funnily, the only one that doesn’t have to be transliterated is the only one that doesn’t sound like it’s English version.

[aces-sweetheart]

Marco. Smash or pass

SMASH SO HARD

[sheydgarden]

mark your calendars! 4/16/24, 12:30PM EST: new stuff coming to my Etsy shop for the first time in over a year - thank you very much for being so patient! other zines & stickers will also be restocked in various quantities, some fairly limited, & there are only 7 golems & these 5 incantation bowl pendants this time around. if you don't manage to snag one, rest assured i'm still planning to continue to make them as i'm able!

the B'TZELEM ELOHIM lino prints are 8x10" (hand-done & signed!) while FEYGELE is a cute little 5x7" & THORN PANSY is only 3x5" (this is a bizarre size for a print, i know, but you can fit in anywhere & it comes with a pin). excited to stock my poetry chapbook for the first time ever as a zine! ♥

[shtetlcore]

When we mods reference LGBTQ+ Jews in our communities, we aren’t just speaking of the present or future.

Trans and gender non-conforming stories have always been part of our history, and they always will be.

You belong, we belong, our ancestors belong.

[jellybeanium124]

in honor of speak your language day this monolingual is going to teach you all the yiddish they know... poorly! these transliterations are terrible and I don't care! but that doesn't mean I don't care about yiddish as a language. yiddish means so much to me as an ashkenazi jew, and I wish I had the time to become fluent. hopefully someday. I also want to say that some of this may be technically wrong. what I am sharing here is what I was taught by my parents and grandparents and probably differs from correct yiddish. if you want to learn more please consult proper sources made by fluent speakers.

before we get started you need to know that many things yiddish has a literal meaning and a connotative meaning. basically, it's a language of idioms, or, at least, many of those idiomatic expressions are what survived to get passed down to me.

yiddish: jewish

oy vey: if you don't know this one already I can't help you. you know an oy vey moment when you see it

oy vey es mir: when it's even more oy vey than normal

goy: non-jew (for me it's kind of specific to white people, yknow the people who lived around the shtetls and did pogroms and stuff. versus "gentile" which to me means literally every non-jew)

losenkopf: literally translates to "hole in the head." aka idiot

goyishe kopf: literally means "goyish head." aka idiot

yiddishe kopf: literally means "jewish head." aka smart

sheine: pretty

meidele: girl (combine 8 and 9 for "sheine meidele" which means "pretty girl" for a cute pet name)

engele: boy (combine 8 and 10 for "sheine engele" which means "pretty boy" for a cute pet name)

punim: face (sheine punim is another cute pet name)

pupik: belly button

pulkey: thigh (fun fact! I didn't know pulkey wasn't english until I was like... 12)

ketzeleh: kitty. also a pet name

feygele: little bird. can also be derogatory.

hinetele: puppy. also a pet name

gey khaken affen yam: literally "go shit in the ocean" aka go fuck yourself

gey gesunte heit: literally "go in good health." basically it's a way of saying goodbye when you like/love someone.

a dank eich: thank you

nish to farvos: your welcome

kinehora: combo of "kin ein hora" which means "keep the evil eye away." aka a verbal knocking on wood/crossing fingers

ich hob dich lieb: I love you (in yiddish: איך האב דיר ליב)

[apelcini]

i just love that the yiddish version of f*g means “little bird” and is actually an affectionate term when used towards a female subject. there’s just so many layers to unpack with feygele as a pet name in a lesbian relationship and the more you know about both me and my girlfriend the more perfectly ironic it gets