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Remembering Del Martin

By: KatieZ on: Aug 28,2008 In: Lesbian

Lesbian rights pioneer and feminist activist Del Martin passed away yesterday. She was 87.
Martin wed her partner of over 50 years, Phyllis Lyon, last month after same-sex marriages were legalized in California. They were the first same-sex couple married in San Francisco.
Martin and Lyon founded the Daughters of Bilitis, an early lesbian activist group, and [...]

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28 Condos Later: A Zombie Purim in New York City!

By: daniel on: Mar 14,2008 In: Arts and Culture, Capacity Building, Community Building and Organizing, Corporate Greed, Economic Justice, Education, Entertainment, Events, Gay and Lesbian, Gender Variant, History, Holidays, Homelessness, Ideas, Jewish Continuity, Jewish Identity, Jewish Left, Jewish Life, Jewish Organizations, Jewish Plurality, Joy, LGBTQ, Lesbian, Local Organizing, Memory, Music, New York, Poetry, Policy, Politics, Progressive Jews, Queer, Queer Culture, Racial Justice, Sex, Sexuality, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Take Action, Tradition, Transgender, Yiddish

(apologies to those who aren’t living in new york city - this is an event announcement)
(it seems like there are many more radical purim extravaganzas going on all over the country, though, and i’m posting this announcement in part to encourage folks to think big and exciting for next year…)
this year’s eighth-or-so edition of the [...]

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‘Art is dangerous material’ Irena Klepfisz on the Jewish reponse to Jewish art

By: daniel on: Apr 5,2007 In: Anti-Semitism, Arts and Culture, Ashkenazi, Community Building and Organizing, Economic Justice, Education, Gay and Lesbian, History, Ideas, Israel, JVoices, Jewish Continuity, Jewish Identity, Jewish Life, Jewish Plurality, LGBTQ, Lesbian, National Poetry Month, Occupation, Palestine, Poetry, Politics, Queer, Queer Culture, Secular, Sexism, Sexuality, Social Justice, Tradition, Vision, Yiddish, Yiddishkeit

for poetry month (why april, by the way? ‘the cruelest month’? ‘with his shoures soote’? please.), here’s the text of a talk by irena klepfisz - a fantastic poet in yiddish, english, and both at once, as well as an insightful essayist and deeply committed radical - from a 2006 conference at barnard college called “Jewish Women Changing America: Cross-Generational Conversations”. at the bottom is a poem from one of klepfisz’s books. a complete transcript of the “Changing Culture” panel that klepfisz spoke on (and the rest of the conference) is available online here.

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ASWAT pushes on, celebrating 5th anniversary in Haifa

By: Cole on: Mar 29,2007 In: ASWAT, Lesbian, Palestine

I promise, soon, the link drops will end, but I wanted to post this as a follow up to Hagay HaCohen’s lead about ASWAT’s conference and the threats organizers had received.

HAIFA, Israel - Arab lesbians quietly defied Islamist protesters and a social taboo to gather at a rare public event Wednesday in a northern Israeli [...]