The Modern Mikveh Movement and The Alchemy of Queer Immersions

The Modern Mikveh Movement (MMM), a collection of North American Jewish feminist projects, is reclaiming what many have considered an irredeemably misogynistic form of bodily disciplining: post-menstrual immersion in the Jewish ritual bath. While mikveh is traditionally used to regulate female sexuality within heterosexual marriage, feminists are distancing mikveh from discourses of purity and repurposing it as a technology for marking and facilitating transitions.