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The Pleasure and Politics of Writing Queer Romance Novels
“It was never true that the only people who ever fell in love were skinny, white, cis, hetero people. It’s a political act to honor that.”
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Early Abortion: A Papaya Workshop
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Finding Escape and Hope in Jewish FilmsGiven the ongoing destruction of our deepest values as Americans and Jews, art feels like a necessary solace. Last month, I joined my co-religionists and others in the dark, warm,… Read more »
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Joan Semmel’s Revolution in NudesWhat happens when you look at the female form “through the object’s eye?”
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Enter Our Uterus Challah Baking ContestIn honor of Repro Shabbat, which honors Judaism’s approach to reproductive health, rights, and justice, Lilith & NCJW are teaming up to see if you have what it takes to bake the ultimate uterus challah!
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Be Wary of GovernmentsAs a person with deep ties to Venezuela, it’s been a particularly dizzying few weeks.
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Intersectionality is a BitchBeing a Latina/Hispanic/native Spanish-speaking woman and Jewish leaves me in a strange space at times.
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Happy Lunar New Year and Chodesh Tov! It’s time for your Rosh Chodesh (new moon) check-in! Join Rabbi Jaymee Alpert of Neshama Body and Soul for a moment of mindful Jewish movement to kick off the month of Adar 🐎☄️
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What fruit is very helpful in training abortion providers?
The papaya! It is a realistic model for the uterus. It resembles it during early pregnancy in size, shape and consistency, and so it’s often used as a tool in medical training for MVAs (manual vacuum aspiration, which is one type of early abortion.) #ReproShabbat
Read one of our most popular pieces of all time from @cdubofsky at 🔗 in bio.
"All my life I’ve heard about how “emotionally destroyed” women are by their abortions. This is largely a Christian narrative, just as the rescinding of women’s human rights has been pushed since Roe v. Wade by the evangelical right."
In honor of ReproShabbat we are revisiting some of Lilith`s groundbreaking reproductive healthcare stories from the archives--read Sally Schloss` 2022 personal essay at the 🔗 in our bio.
What would the Jewish world look like if we had language to say to a woman who miscarried like we do in a shiva house?
Ritual and liturgy play such an important role in the sacred and mundane of Jewish life, and yet we don’t have consistent liturgy for experiences that half of the population undergo. If rituals give us context to mark transitions and liturgy gives us the language to describe them, there is a whole set of transitions and experiences historically ignored within Jewish tradition.
Learn more about how Jewish feminists are working to fill this gap — 🔗 In bio.
