JQT Vancouver
Carmel Tanaka is the Founder and Executive Director of JQT Vancouver.
Pronounced “J-cutie”, JQT Vancouver is a Jewish Queer and Trans arts, cultural and educational non-profit dedicated to ‘queering’ Jewish space and ‘Jewifying’ queer space in Vancouver, BC on the traditional and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.
Read Carmel’s article on “How JQT Vancouver is Queering Jewish Spaces and Jewifying Queer Spaces” in Niv Mag!
Carmel is also the Project Coordinator of the BC Jewish Queer & Trans Oral History Project, the first project of its kind in the province.
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Carmel welcomes JQTs at a Pride event overlooking English Bay in 2019. Photo credit: Ted Hayes
