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What happens when you look at the female form “through the object’s eye?”
“Through the Object’s Eye” is the title of one of many striking canvases on display in “Joan Semmel: In the Flesh,” the artist’s new retrospective at The Jewish Museum in New York City. It’s a remarkable assemblage of canvases that curator Rebecca Shaykin gathered in collaboration with the artist herself, who’s in her 90s. Learn more at Lilith Online — 🔗 in bio!
Image: “Sunlight” by Joan Semmel (1987)
Want to learn more about the Jewish stake in abortion rights? Head to the 🔗 in bio!
Reproductive freedom is a Jewish value, FULL STOP. That`s why Lilith is proud to partner with the National Council of Jewish Women (@ncjwinc) on Repro Shabbat, coming February 13-14. Learn more at 🔗 in bio!
Did you know that Lilith has mentored HUNDREDS of Jewish feminist college students over the past 50 years?
Former Lilith interns have gone on to become best-selling novelists, groundbreaking journalists, Jewish community leaders, educators, grassroots organizers, renowned artists, nonprofit leaders and lawyers--and half of the Lilith staff got their start at the intern desk! 🎉
Want to be part of this time-honored Jewish feminist internship tradition during Lilith`s *50th anniversary* year? Find out how to apply at the 🔗 in our bio.
"For women in sexist, authoritarian societies...there is often only the harsh reality that sex rarely comes without anxiety, and that the price one often pays for it is high and dangerous."
In honor of @ncjwinc`s #ReproShabbat next week, February 13-14, we`re highlighting the work of an abortion foremother, Merle Hoffman.
Hoffman is a pioneer of reproductive healthcare access. In 1971, she co-founded the Flushing Women’s Medical Center (now Choices Women’s Medical Center) in Queens, NY. Governed by the principle of “patient power,” the clinic was the first of its kind to offer abortions, two years before the passage of Roe v. Wade. Through her work at Choices, her writing and her activism, Hoffman continues to advocate for access to reproductive healthcare and information for all people who need it, in the U.S. and abroad.
Read Merle Hoffman`s origin story and US abortion history in her own words at 🔗 in bio.
📸 Merle Hoffman outside St Patrick`s Cathedral in New York in 1989
📸 Walking into Choices in 2022. Photo by @joanrothphotography.
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