Shayna Goodman
Trauma does not exist in a vacuum — it’s always layered.
Trauma does not exist in a vacuum — it’s always layered.
Poets gathered to figure out how to hear and be heard in fraught times.
In a world divided, how do we move forward? This much-needed documentary co-directed by Julie Cohen, an American Jew, and Mo Husseini, an American Palestinian, shows us one way.
Pushing the limits of our empathy is central to the holy work of this season.
How do we reconcile the disparate pieces of our genetic whorl with the legacy of our lineage?
I will never know. I can’t fit all the pieces of my mother’s life together like a jigsaw puzzle.
I know deeply what it is to feel like I have to make a choice between my spiritual life and my sense of dignity as a disabled person.
When I want to position myself in the world I need only one fact: I went to Woodstock.
It felt different to watch The Olympics this year. It’s not only a reminder of the incredible variety of the human body, but of its fragility.