I can’t ever be part of jumblr, almost exclusively because it is really so very Orthodox-centric. Observant Conservative at a stretch, but the perspective of Jews doing Jewish things within very narrow confines of traditions... Anyway, it’s often quite alienating. Which is fine, it doesn’t have to be for everyone, but it’s funny that it’s ‘jumblr’ despite typically passing over vast swathes of the Jewish population.
Anyway, no, you can’t appropriate aspects of your own religion/culture/heritage. There’s no aspect of Judaism that belongs solely to one or another group of Jews; that’s not how being part of a tribe works. There’s a ton of Jewish Stuff that looks different based on which movement a given Jew is part of -- and it’s not any less Jewish when it’s done in a Reform or atheist or interfaith-upbringing or etc. context. There’s no ‘standard’ application for Jewish practice, because that would require a ‘standard’ Jew.
In my congregation, you’ll see a decent number of unmarried and/or non-Orthodox women/non-men wearing tichels or other head coverings; it’s also currently mostly women rabbis (3 of 4); services feature tons of women/non-men with yarmulkes (me, for instance), tallit, etc.; we’re pretty much all queer. We tend heavily towards Reform and Reconstructionist, but we have everyone (the whole thing with being a home for all queer Jews), and we’re unaffiliated.
Something that might be ‘transgressive’ in one setting can be very much the norm (literally or conceptually) in another. And all our observances are real, and really Jewish, even if they would not be done in another Jewish community. What happened to acknowledging that there are as many forms of Jewishness -- and that includes Jewish observance/practice! -- as there are Jews?
