They’re Jewish, they’re trans, and they make music. Allow me to introduce you to Schmekel, a four-member outfit from New York City that writes pro-trans lyrics like these: “Sarcasm’s a shield that you must learn to carry / Even if your chest’s flat and your chin is hairy / Bigots are stupid but they’re also scary / Don’t want to turn into an obituary.
They recently got profiled by The New York Times Here are some of my favorite lines from the article:
- Their name is a joke about clitorises. “Schmekel means little penis in Yiddish, and is a play on the fact that all four members were born female but now identify on the masculine side of the gender spectrum.”
- Their latest album is called “Queers on Rye.”
- Says a Jewish Community Center staffer: “The Venn diagram on musical, Yiddish, and queer leads to a very small shaded area, but they live in it.”
L’chaim!
MoJo
Snore!
JRL
Punk? Not in the slightest.
shannon
THEY ARE “ASHKENAZI” WHICH MEANS CONVERT…THEY CONVERTED TO THE RELIGION…THEY ARE NOT “SEMITES” WHICH MEANS BLACK/MIXED BLACK…
Ari
@shannon: and ethic background has anything to do with this?
Gabriel
@shannon:
“Semite” has absolutely nothing to do with “black/mixed black”. Get an education.
Zoe Brain
@Shannon : Ashkenazi as opposed to Sephardic. Wiki is your friend – if you can read.
I dislike ignorant racist shitheads. A failing of mine, but I’m taking pleasure in showing what a complete idiot you’ve made yourself out to be. I need to work on that.
Dmitriy
@shannon:
No you’re wrong
Ashkenazi jews haven’t actively converted people since 2000 years ago when we were taken into the roman empire that quickly made prostelytizing illegal,,that’s why Jews don’t prostelytize….
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/06/03/the-dna-of-abraham-s-children.html
webdemon
Add “Terrible” to that headline’s list of descriptors.