JQT Vancouver

Carmel Tanaka is the Founder and Executive Director of JQT Vancouver.

Pronounced “J-cutie”, JQT Vancouver is a volunteer-run Jewish Queer and Trans charitable non-profit dedicated to "queering" Jewish spaces and "Jew-ifying" Queer spaces through education, dialogue, art, cultural celebration and partnerships in Vancouver, BC, on the traditional and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sə̓lílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.

Read Carmel’s article on “How JQT Vancouver is Queering Jewish Spaces and Jewifying Queer Spaces” in Niv Mag!

Carmel also produced the BC Jewish Queer & Trans Oral History Project, the first project of its kind in the province.

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