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“no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark." Somali-British poet Warsan Shire
With strong, rich roots in the U.S., Black people are part of this country’s immigration narrative.
TODAY AT 1 PM EASTERN: "Black Lives Matter: A Conversation on Being Black and Jewish at this Moment" with Ilana Kaufman, La'Mar Walker, and Yavilah McCoy.
RSVP ASAP!
You are invited to tune in to this important conversation with wonderful leaders of the Jewish community on July [email protected]:00 PM EST. To register click here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1704487522451652112?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=d755d187-6a4d-47ee-8301-67e76b52fa80
This is systemic racial bias-- Grace, a Black 15-year-old in Michigan, was incarcerated during the coronavirus pandemic after a judge ruled that not completing her schoolwork violated her probation.
A 15-year-old in Michigan was incarcerated during the coronavirus pandemic after a judge ruled that not completing her schoolwork violated her probation. “It just doesn’t make any sense,” said the girl’s mother.
Refuah Shlemah (a swift and complete healing), Justice Ginsburg.
According to a press release from the court's press officer, the justice is "resting comfortably and will stay in the hospital for a few days to receive intravenous antibiotic treatment."
A win for reproductive rights!!!
A federal judge agreed Monday to suspend a rule that requires women during the COVID-19 pandemic to visit a hospital, clinic or medical office to obtain an abortion pill.
Step One: Read "How to Save a Life in the Next 72 Hours"
Step Two: Make a comment on the inhumane proposed regulations for asylum seekers #SaveAsylum
These regulations, brought to you by the same people who decided to separate children from their parents, will be particularly loathsome for women and for those who are LGBTQ.
Read what participants from Lilith’s Jewish feminist quaranzine events have to say. Make sure to join us tonight on zoom!
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Join Lilith today, July 14, for a hands-on Jewish feminist quaranzine experience! Learn–fast–how to make your own zine using any art supplies you have at hand, and tell your story through this meaningful Jewish practice. No previous artistic experience required, just a desire to spin a narrative in a new medium.
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When: July 14, 8-9 PM ET/ 5-6 PM PT
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RSVP: bit.ly/zineswithlilith
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#Lilith #quaranzine #quarantine #zine #zinesters #creativeprocess #zinelibrary #subversive #EveryoneIsAnArtist #everyoneiscreative
This is art.
Robert Speker wanted to keep spirits up while visitors and outside entertainment were banned due to COVID-19. His ingenious idea: cast the residents as rock stars.
Call for *fiction* submissions from Black Jewish feminists and Jewish writers of color. We want to read (and publish) your short stories! We pay $150 or more depending on length. Please share widely.
Writers of color: polish up that short story, flash fiction piece, or novel excerpt and submit today!
In the next 72 hours, YOU HAVE THE CHANCE TO SAVE A LIFE. The deadline for comments to the Federal government's new regulations for asylum seekers is July 15th at midnight.
These regulations, brought to you by the same people who decided to separate children from their parents, will be particularly loathsome for women and for those who are LGBTQ.
Babka beautiful evolution, explored by Leah Koenig
This ‘traditional’ Ashkenazi favorite has evolved many times over the years—and it continues to change with the times
TONIGHT! RSVP Below for "Living as a Frum Black Woman: A Conversation with Maayan Zik and Yaffy Newman."
After the profile of Maayan Zik was published in Vogue, we found a range of responses on social media and in Chabad mommy groups.
We heard shock about the painful experiences Maayan has in the community we love, the specter of the Crown Heights riots, and desire for more information.
We heard the urgent need to hear more from frum Black women as they talk about what it's like for them in our community. We hope this event will be an opportunity that many asked for to find out what we all can do better with the mitzvah of ahavas Yisrael, a mandate that is incumbent upon us at every moment of every day.
You can register here, and submit any questions you would like Maayan and Yaffy to consider. We ask for a donation of $5, which will go to the speakers for their time:
https://forms.gle/B6MuJDeNFfobyiaJ8
Hope to see you all there!
Who's watching the Babysitters Club?
I feel vulnerable admitting that as woman in her 30s, I binge-watched the new Netflix show, The Babysitter's Club, over 4th of July weekend. Twic...
Let's focus on reparations
This article revisits the slavery reparations debate, provides rationale for why it is necessary and offers three ways that reparations can be given to Black Americans.
A must listen 👂👂👂
The author of “White Fragility” and an expert on racialized trauma together — a deep dive into the calling of our lifetimes.
"Showing up for folks historically left out of conversations around reproductive health and justice is anti-racist work." - Ana Lucia Carmelo, healthcare consultant
"If this is new information to you, then reproductive advocacy spaces are also failing to be inclusive and intersectional..."
Check out the the Turnaway Study
For five years, a team of researchers asked women about their experience after having—or not having—an abortion. What do their answers tell us?
Do you speak openly about your salary with your family and friends?
More than a thousand readers responded to our call to share their salaries.
In this week's Jewish Feminist Quaranzines session, we will be focusing on our relationship with food as individuals and in community. Take a look at the following articles from Lilith's archives to get your wheels turning and register at bit.ly/zineswithlilith.
At a National Women's Studies Association meeting, a woman told the following story. When she was a teenager, her mother, a Holocaust survivor, constantly pressured her to eat more and put on weigh...
Look for it in the pages of Lilith? Maybe not
Grammarians are up in arms over dictionaries including "irregardless." The Merriam-Webster dictionary responds: "We do not make the English language, we merely record it."
Who's swinging along?
Printed in black and white and bigotry all over, Nazi official Hans Severus Ziegler’s brochure for his new public exhibit in Dusseldorf featured an African American jazz musician with a Star of David on his lapel. Designed to ridicule and belittle Jewish musicians for performing “Negro music” ...
Yes!
When I saw anti-Semitic graffiti, I contacted the most proactive women I know: members of my Jewish and Muslim women's group.
Shabbat shalom! Read this beautiful interview with Sandra Lawson.
Rabbi Sandra Lawson is the world’s first Black, openly gay female rabbi.
In the Haredi community, these women EMTs fight to provide a vital community service.
A state administrative judge paved the way for the Brooklyn service to get its ambulance, but the protracted battle isn't over.
Next Tues. 7/14 at 8 PM ET, join Lilith magazine, Jewish Women's Archive, Interfaith Youth Core, and Miller Center for Interreligious Learning & Leadership of Hebrew College for a conversation with poets Alondra Bobadilla, Alicia Jo Rabins, Marilyn Nelson, & Lilith's very own poetry editor, Alicia Ostriker.
Together, we'll talk about how poetry can help us respond to COVID-19 and institutional racism.
How might words of poetry help us respond to the current crisis of COVID-19 and the national reckoning with racial injustice?Join us on Tues., July 14, as we engage four outstanding woman poets from different walks of life for a cross-cultural and intergenerational poetry reading and discussion.
Have you made a quaranzine with Lilith yet? You have two more chances in July!
Join Lilith next Tuesday, July 14, for a hands-on Jewish feminist quaranzine experience! Learn–fast–how to make your own zine using any art supplies you have at hand, and tell your story through this meaningful Jewish practice. No previous artistic experience required, just a desire to spin a narrative in a new medium.
When: July 14, 8-9 PM ET/ 5-6 PM PT
RSVP: bit.ly/zineswithlilith
🥕Communities taking care of each other 🥦
Community fridges across the city are fighting food insecurity, reducing waste, and uniting neighbors.
📢Follow Aya Brown on every platform immediately 📢
Through her Essential Workers series, Aya Brown, 24, has shined a spotlight on the Black women in New York who work in hospitals, schools and retail.
Confronting #Karen
It follows in a long and troubling legacy of white women in the United States weaponizing their victimhood
People line up as early as 5 in the morning and wait as long as six hours at some of the larger distribution sites.
In the neighborhoods most devastated by the coronavirus, food insecurity has emerged as a major concern.
Absolutely appalling
The ruling greatly expands the kinds of employers that can cite religious or moral objections in declining to include birth control in their health care plans.
The psychological impact of being alone can be devastating
It's not that young adults aren't worried about the pandemic, psychologists say, but they are at far greater risk of dying by suicide. Finding ways beyond screens to foster social bonds is crucial.
Inside Tamika Palmer, Breonna Taylor's mother, fight for justice
Tamika Palmer is the reluctant public face of the movement seeking justice for her Breonna Taylor, baring her grief to protect her daughter's legacy.
When hair becomes a midrash-- May Ye on connecting to the Torah portion through her hair.
It was late October. I had been going to a new barber recently. I had seen Billy’s (@Odabu) incredible line work on Instagram and was ready to start doing bolder things with my hair. On this day, I...
Rachel Faulkner has noticed that her Facebook feed has gone back to "normal" after the increase in Black Lives Matter content due to George Floyd's murder. In "You Gave Him Permission" she considers the everyday aspects of society that allow police like Derek Chauvin to murder a Black man and "not even blink a moment of concern". Now on the Lilith Blog-- lilith.org.
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Pause and recharge before Shabbat with chef/food writer Susan Barocas & Lilith Magazine. She's talking about--and making--flatbreads as ancient and diverse as the cultures they come from.
Join Sephardic Chef & Food Writer Susan Barocas as she dives into the many "small plates" of mezze (salatim in Israel, tapas in Spain). This delightful hour will include history and stories as we focus on Turkish, Persian, Moroccan and other Sephardic and Mizrahi flavors, using seasonal, easy-to-find ingredients. Hosted by Lilith magazine as part of The Great Big Jewish Food Fest.
LIVE: Celebrate the Spring 2020 Issue by joining the Lilith magazine's Virtual Launch Event. Toast the writers and artists who appear in this extraordinary issue-and the readers who support this work. The evening will include a provocative Q&A with Peggy Orenstein, author of Boys & Sex, with a special Yiddish musical send-off by Eleanor Reissa.
Need ideas for navigating your fridge and pantry during this uncertain time? Trying to figure out how to make Passover special and tasty this year? Lilith magazine and chef/food writer Susan Barocas, guest chef at three Obama White House Seders, shares foraging tips and tricks for making good food and cutting food waste. Join us live for a foraging challenge and Q&A -- ask Susan for ideas for doing what you can with what you've got. Follow Lilith on instagram at @lilithmagazine & Susan at @susanbarocas
Our Winter issue covers everything from feminist foremothers to abortion to searing personal stories. Here's a tiny taste. Read more at: https://www.lilith.org/current-issue/
Our Spring issue is here! Prize-winning fiction, looking forward after #MeToo, peacemaking and feminist pioneers... https://lilith.org/current-issue/
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