Content Note: This blog-post contains mentions of white-supremacist and anti-Semitic violence. As we mourn white-supremacist murders, places of worship need community defense, not more cops. ...
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Jewish Joy, Jewish Resistance: Resilience Practices from Purim
Tomorrow night, Jewish people around the world will celebrate Purim. Between the costumes, the Hamentashen, the Hamilton-themed skits, and the halachicly-mandated debauchery, Purim is one ...
Link Roundup: Apocalypse Preppers
Today, a couple links on apocalypse preparation, the Black Panthers, and local organizing models. Stockpiles, Self-Reliance, & Survival Skills — How Some Women Are Preparing ...
Link Roundup: If This is Not a Battle, What is it?
Today, a few pieces from around the web on illness, ability, and access. If this is not a Battle, what is it? (On reframing the ...
Free Zine Alert: Uncovering a Legacy of Student-Employee Solidarity at Duke
Duke Students and Workers in Solidarity In the spring semester of 2016, I was one of the founding members of Duke Students and workers ...
Notes on Burnout from Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers)
Last spring, my friend Rachel lead an interfaith Shabbat outside of Duke’s administrative building, where nine undergrads held a week-long sit-in to protest anti-black racism ...
Link Roundup: On Transformative Justice, A World Without Violence, and Prison Abolition
Content note: State violence, racism, mass incarceration, police brutality, gender violence including rape and child abuse In the days since sorority and fraternity students at Duke ...
Free Podcast Alert: Disrupting the Archive
When protest movements, hate speech, and other turbulent events sweep a university, they enter into conversations rich with history and often fraught with conflict. This ...
Link Roundup: Emotional Labor, Tone Policing, and the “Rules of Engagement”
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the *rules of engagement* we create in our conversations– within family, online, and in our communities. Especially in ...
Link Roundup: Do you think I’m pretty?
I’ve been filling the tanks with a lot of stunning pieces of writing since I’ve been across the pond, and I’ve decided to start doing ...
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September 6, 2018 This new year, I’m all about “lazy journaling.”
