Meet Elliya!

Meet Elliya: leader of Team JES!

Elliya uses singular they/them pronouns.

• nominative (they): they lead Team JES.
• accusative (them): Joru and Spinnefo rely on them for guidance.
• pronominal possessive (their): these are their notes.
• predictive possessive (theirs): this dorm is theirs.
• reflexive (themself): they're working emboldening themself and others to speak out in order to create a world we all want to live in.

Elliya's name means "my God is Yahweh".

"I'm not looking for favors from some higher power. For me, as well as many Jewish people, being Jewish is about living by the principles, traditions, and histories our ancestors (some as close as our grandparents) are mocked, marginalized, and slaughtered for. As well as adapting these things as needed when our understanding grows and changes. Judaism is as alive as my people are. People who are truly alive understand that you need to be willing to bend the rules a bit. What's good for the goose isn't always good for the gander. You don't need omniscience to figure that out, you just need thoughts in your head. Now stop letting geese make all the rules!"

A lot of losers think that "real" queer people are atheists. Part of that's due to being understandably traumatized by christofacism, but trauma doesn't justify punching down or sideways (in other words, bullying people). You can be queer and whatever other culture(s) and religion(s) you're a part of. Some groups mesh better together than others, but at the end of the day, religious queers are no less queer than an atheist queer.

And by the way, losers, some Jewish people are also atheists~.