Parsha dvarim
Bereshis and Brotherly love / בראשית
Dysfunctional siblings and intergenerational trauma
Shemōs
This is a weekly series of parsha dvarim (Tōrah commentaries) written by an orthodox atheist transsexual anarchist, with guest posts from comrades. It's the work of each generation to extricate meaning from our cultural and religious inheritance, and it's crucial that we resist the narrative that
Vayaḥi
"Ḥazak ḥazak v'nitḥazeyk!" Be strong, be strong, and let us be strengthened.
Parsha dvarim
Famine is a policy choice, not an inevitability
Jewish and queer politics from an orthodox transsexual anarchist perspective.
If you love yourself, you should dress accordingly.
The blessings of hidden identities and newly bestowed names
On the gendered ethics of labor modeled in Tōrah
It's easy to be lofty when you're not hungry.
The mitsve of pidōn shvuyim urges us to advocate for all prisoners, not just the morally uncomplicated ones.
Once the destruction of Gaza is over, will Zionists open their eyes and see what they've done?
The holy land is a future, a story not concluded, a promise always unfulfilled.
A post-Holocaust theology on suffering and forgiveness
Text as a witness and an intervention
How do we do tshuva for genocide?
Jews are judged as a collective, either blessed or cursed. We are clearly cursed.
A response piece in discourse with "A Feminist Critique of Traditional Egalitarianism"