Writing
Pearl
March 2024
"I wake up in your bed" burrows itself into every nook and cranny of intimate relationships and actively unsettles normative ideas of how we can relate to romantic, platonic, and familial connections.
Boston Art Review
March 2024
In an age when marking identity categories simultaneously feels like checking a diversity box and like a crucial reclamation of historically subjugated identities, I was curious to see how the Fitchburg Art Museum (FAM) tackles embodied femininity.
The Havurah Journal
October 2023
Photographer Hannah Altman seeks to expand our collective imagination of Jewish experience, reaching into the past to inspire a future ahead.
Jewish Women's Archive
August 2023
"Judaism and social justice have always been intertwined for me. I came to Judaism as an adult both spiritually and politically. Because I am a Jew and because my people have been oppressed, I am obligated to take action."
Hey Alma
July 2023
25 years after its release, the cult movie's message about Jewish beauty and assimilation is as relevant as ever.
Jewish Women's Archive
July 2023
"Being Jewish means being part of something that's larger than yourself. Whether that means communally, spiritually, or socially, it's just sort of being part of a larger network, a larger ecosystem, both in terms of people and the Earth itself."
Teen Vogue
June 2023
In Feinberg’s life, writing, and even hir death, we see many of the issues that trans people continue to encounter today.
Jewish Women's Archive
July 2023
"I spent time a lot of time in the woods of Berlin during the COVID-19 lockdown. I started to think about the stories of Jewish partisans like Faye Shulmann, who was put into the role of a nurse with no medical experience. "
Jewish Women's Archive
May 2023
"High school is when I really got into songwriting. When I graduated, my brother let me use his software and I figured out how to produce my songs and started releasing them."
Jewish Women's Archive
March 2023
"The audience is always seeing men, so when I come to the table, it changes their perspective. Whether they're surprised in a positive way or a negative way, or they don't know what to expect, they don't really have a standard for female magicians in their head."
Jewish Women's Archive
December 2022
"I was interested in ordinary young women who rose to their highest capacity during a very difficult time. I’m a daughter of Holocaust survivors who were hidden and ended up in Nazi concentration camps, so the story of the Holocaust is very meaningful to me."
Jewish Women's Archive
September 2022
"Women were not working in bookstores. Why? I don't know, but now there's been huge changes. And if you want to talk about City Lights, most of the people working there now are women and certainly running the show."
Hey Alma
July 2022
The times we live in require justice work, community investment — and rest. This list is has seven Jew(ish) films which will let you disconnect from it all.
Jewish Women's Archive
June 2022
Over and over again, Kissing Jessica Stein takes archetypes like the greasy, objectifying men at the bar or the insistent Jewish mother pressuring her daughter to “settle down,” and reexamines them in subversive ways that older romcoms would never dream to broach.
Jewish Women's Archive
May 2022
Though season two's plot felt a bit haphazard, its investigation of Jewish themes in combination with Nadia’s relationships with her mother and grandmother redeemed the season for me.
Jewish Women's Archive
April 2022
I had learned to take pride in my nose, had formed a subversive identity around its not-so-cutesy shape, and had held it as a symbol of my rebellion against WASP beauty standards. If I changed my nose, wouldn’t I betray my wild, Jewish, feminist self?