Taking up [too much] space
And so it begins. I’ve finally convinced myself to jump back into blogging. Without an attempt or pretext of anonymity, which feels both terrifying and liberating. I will probably be writing about...
View ArticleChoosing Femme: Visibility, Safety, Community, Liberation (part 1)
As I start this, I’m on my fifth flight in two weeks, flipping through Micah Bazant’s powerful TimTum: A Trans Jew Zine, and I can’t stop thinking about what is feeling like a theme developing from the...
View ArticleChoosing Femme: Visibility, Safety, Community, Liberation (part 2)
Part 2 of a 3 part series. Part 1 is here. Philly Trans Health The day after the conversation with my grandfather, I landed in Philadelphia for the Philly Trans Health Conference – the largest...
View ArticleChoosing Femme: Visibility, Safety, Community, Liberation (part 3)
This is part 3 of a 3-part series. Part 1 can be found here, and part 2 found here. Community, Liberation Boston Dyke March was on a Friday, the week after Philly Trans Health. My friends had thrown...
View ArticleA still, thin sound
“The great shofar will be sounded and a still, thin sound will be heard.” (Unetaneh Tokef) It’s 7:37 pm on September 21st. It is the 22nd day of Elul. Today is a day of reckoning and repentance. It is...
View ArticleReaching and Trembling
It seems like the only time I take time to write is in response to heartbreak and tragedy. My queue is filled with drafts over the last year and a half, but the only one I’ve really finished is a piece...
View ArticleVayikra, And God Called Out: An Invitation to Gender Justice
The following is a d’var Torah I delivered at Hillel B’nai Torah this past Shabbat, at the invitation of Rabbi Barbara Penzner, on the occasion of International Women’s Day Shabbat. A note of...
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