Alexa Hulse
Los Angeles-based poet Rhiannon McGavin talks to Lilth about her sophomore collection of poetry, Grocery List Poems.
Los Angeles-based poet Rhiannon McGavin talks to Lilth about her sophomore collection of poetry, Grocery List Poems.
Are you all fired up? Tevet babies, this is for you!
You don’t want to be interacting with your nemesis on a daily basis. That’s exhausting.
When I grab the mic for 4 minutes, I break the illusion that the narratives worth listening to are ones we’ve already heard.
Choosing to go to the mikveh this last time felt like something I had to do for myself, alone.
In a story about gentile Albanians protecting Jewish ones, I saw what my Muslim great grandparents, living in Nazi-occupied North Macedonia in the 1940s, experienced.
Over the past several years, since the #MeToo movement has gained prominence, reckonings around sexual misconduct and harassment have taken place throughout the global Jewish community. Continuing the momentum of this movement is hard while so many other issues, including the ongoing pandemic, occupy our space. But this work is far from over, and an open call for authentic testimony reminds the wider community that this culture has lasting, negative effects.
‘The New Forty’ invites women 40 years old to 100+ who are new to writing for publication to participate in a one year Jewish feminist writing cohort.
This origin story of Adam & Eve has been used to punish, to instill regret, to sever us from one another. What if it’s also our salvation?
We need faith-based spaces where the participants are not seen as the ‘other.’ Spaces where we are not told ‘you don’t look Jewish’ or asked, ‘no, where are you really from?’