Over the past two weeks, Ithaca celebrated Pride Month with its most centralized and expansive event series to date. Ithaca Pride Week, produced by a committee of local organizers in
Sinister Wisdom 119: To Be a Jewish Dyke in the 21st Century
What are Jewish lesbians thinking about? Writing about? Making art about now, here in the first two decades of the 21st Century? Do we see ourselves as Jewish dykes? Jewish lesbians? Genderqueer Jews? How are we thinking about our Jewish lesbian communities and families, natal or invented? How have our relationships to the states of Israel and Palestine changed over time? Can we reconcile the contradictions between our faiths and our politics? Our gender and racial identities? How do we envision our futures and reimagine our pasts, especially in these fractious and dangerous times? One thing is certain. Our commitments to making trouble and speaking up are strong.