QAnon content has crept into yoga and wellness sites, where you can find posts in girly fonts about Covid-19 being fake news, and how vaccinations are a government-led attempt to kill your children.
Pop culture matters; it both produces and reflects our values and beliefs, and helps shape them in ways that can be profoundly powerful.
I have had mixed feelings about my relationship to Judaism and my specific relationship to worship, but Saturday’s events strengthened my resolve. As I heard the news of the eleven people who lost their lives, I thought about those people worshipping as I was before being gunned down.
And so we went. With hundreds of others, we gathered. With candles. With lights. With prayer and resilience and song and love and kaddish. W
I could feel it in the manners, the mores, the very air around me. Vassar was a WASP institution and bastion, and I knew I didn’t entirely belong.
