Issue #7

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EVENTS

ABOUT GIVE

  1. Introducing SIX + GENDERS

  2. My Golem, Her Tower
    Julie Weitz

  3. Do You Know Anshl, the Yeshive Bokher?
    Rafael Juval Balling

  4. Centers of Gravity
    Ariel Goldberg & Tobaron Waxman

  5. This Rumor of Darger's Armies of Girls
    Yosefa Raz

  6. My Body is a Prophet
    Miriam Saperstein

  7. Radical Pleasures and Radical Critique
    Ashley J. Bohrer

  8. Let It Bleed, Rona and I
    Gil and Rona Yefman

  9. Table for Eleggua, Table for Elijah
    Sula Bermúdez-Silverman

  10. Standing Beneath Sinai
    Hannah Tzuberi

  11. Voluminous Absence: Rosemary Mayer’s “Shekinah” and “Bat Kol”
    Noam Parness

  12. My Own Silence
    Roey Victoria Heifetz

  13. License to Opacity
    Maya Simkin

  14. "In the future there will be no such creatures like me."
    Michal B. Ron and Moran Sanderovich

  15. Tefillin Tikkun HaKlali
    Ari Wharton

  16. Talmud Gender Codex
    Etai Rogers-Fett

Talmud Gender Codex

Etai Rogers-Fett

The repetitive symbols throughout Talmud Gender Codex are derived from letters and concepts connected to each of the “six genders,” as well as three additional concepts associated with the artist’s Jewish Trans experience:

בענקשאַפֿט / חשק, longing/desire,
אמת / בינה, truth/understanding,
דאָ, פֿון אָנהײב / אין סוף, here, from the beginning/infinite.

Etai Rogers-Fett is an Ashkenazi Jewish Trans person who makes art and facilitates art making with kids and adults. His political and artistic self was first shaped by the communities he grew up in in Los Angeles and teachers who modeled expression as a community practice of joy, grief, and narrative shifting. Etai organizes with Occupation Free DC, Jewish Voice for Peace DC Chapter, and the New Synagogue Project. He has a long love affair with the language of Yiddish in song, painting, and translation work and is inspired by contemporary Yiddishist efforts that both honor and reimagine the language’s past connections to class, gender, and Jewish identity. As part of the Yiddish Burlesque troupe, The Shmutzik Shmates, he performs as Bikher-Dik, a nebish daddy plotting revolution from the yeshivah benches. 

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