Tag: jewish feminism

Black Jewish Women Artists You Should Know…Jessica Valoris

My chosen people, with whom I build community, are Black and queer and woman and sister and artist. My people are feminist, and pro-Black and anti-racist, and co-creating ways to dismantle capitalism in all its manifestations. 

Countering Isolation with Poetry

Poets use language as a means of connection and coping that makes the listener, in turn, feel just a little bit less alone.

Nostalgia for the 1939 World’s Fair

Yona Zeldis McDonough chats with author Susie Orman Schnall about her entertaining new summer read, “We Came Here to Shine”.

Is Rape a Crime? A Conversation with Michelle Bowdler

Michelle Bowdler talks to Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about what her book Is Rape a Crime: A Memoir, an Investigation and a Manifesto has meant for her—and what she hopes it will mean to others. 

Why My Hair Falls the Way it Does

Between the Jewish high holiday celebrations and family reunions in Brooklyn, New York, it was easier to say I was Jamaican and Jewish than it was for me to actually believe it.