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The Mosquito's Sting: A Tale of Boundaries Challenged

Once upon a time, in an enchanted kingdom, there was a mosquito that carried West Nile fever. This mosquito bit a wealthy man and a poor one, a Jew and an Arab, a white person and a black person, women and men, heterosexual cisgender and LGBTQ+ individuals. The story tells how people created protective barriers and divisions between themselves, but nature, in the form of the mosquito, pierced through these barriers and showed how easily something from each of them could seep into the other, revealing how arbitrary and temporary all these defenses and boundaries truly were.

The king of the kingdom ordered the mosquito to be locked in a golden cage and asked the wisest person in the kingdom, a little girl who understood the language of all animals, to talk to the mosquito. The girl listened to the mosquito's story and told the king the moral lesson that the mosquito had taught. Instead of punishing the mosquito, they made it an important minister in the kingdom. The royal physician healed the mosquito, and the kingdom's scientists transformed it into a beautiful prince.

The prince married the girl when she became old enough. She was the only one who saw the wisdom in the simple mosquito that had only come to sting. To everyone's surprise, as they did not know enough about science, it turned out that the mosquito was actually female. So, the wise girl ended up marrying a mosquito princess who loved to wear princes' clothes. The two of them lived happily ever after, a bit distanced from all other humans who were unwilling to give up the barriers and divisions that separated them.

When the people discovered that the mosquito was female and had married a woman, they wanted to punish her. However, the girl, who was once a wise child, ran away with the mosquito princess to the mountains. There, they lived happily, far from people's eyes and the fears that drove society. They listened to animals, studied life principles with them, trying to deeply understand their languages. Over the years, they published scientific papers that were meant to bring human society closer to their compassionate worldview, which looked broadly at life as one intertwined woven fabric.

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Queer Jews Project Day 25 - Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer

Edie and Thea first met in 1963 on the dance floor of a Greenwich Village restaurant. Edie was a computer programer at IBM, and Thea was a clinical psychologist. They started dating in 1965, and got engaged in 1967. Thea proposed with a circle diamond brooch because a ring would have led to questions and possible outing. Over the next several decades, they lived happy but hidden lives.

But Thea’s health started to decline.

So Edie and Thea got married in 2007 – in Canada – because same-sex marriage wasn’t legal in the United States. Thea died in 2008. Edie found herself with a literal broken heart – and a massive, unjust tax bill.

The Defense of Marriage Act prevented Edie from claiming the spousal inheritance tax exemption that heterosexual couples received. So Edie sued the United States Government. The case eventually made it to the U.S. Supreme Court – and Edie won. DOMA was struck down in 2013, and that set the stage for same-sex marriage to be legalized across the United States two years later.

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In the beginning there were no words, So the cat people only hissed and purred. And when words were created, the first ones were "I" and "you", so there was a sense of unity. And from that many combinations could be made, like saying "you and I".But wherever unity is created, separation is also created. Unity and separation are twin brothers that are often born together. Just as when light appeared, darkness was also created, and in the existence of heat, cold was also defined, and so with the very existence of life, death was also created.Two words make for a poor language! So into the embracing language, a complementary word blended in - the third word in the cat people's language was created:The word "no" was born.So they decided to play with it and found a variety of cool combinations, like "I'm not you" and "you're not me". They didn't stop there and developed it into full-fledged philosophies of life, rich in nuance. With so much momentum they developed almost 9 billion different and varied ways to say it to each other. (Like "I love you" but reversed).For in the beginning, they were just cat people enjoying light and dark, seeking shared ways to deal with heat and cold, hunger and satiety. Perhaps before the sanctity of togetherness there was only enjoyment of the simplicity of life... but togetherness and solitude were created with no way back, and what to do when one cat person says "no" - it dragged on as an endless chain reaction echo that took over the silence... an echo that for some reason, instead of fading away, only grew stronger and stronger... isolating each cat person into a cold, separate trashcan. Licking their wounds and forgetting that the cold began with heat in the first place, and what is heat at all? They went and forgot... "Every Tower of Babel eventually falls" said Lao Tzu. "What nonsense" Einstein replied, and they went back to sleep.

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Gentle Giant Plays Along With Some Kitties

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