Hi Nic and friends! My name is Ali, I'm a 38 year old queer woman living in Buffalo, New York (Seneca/Haudenosaunee land). I'm living in a space of contradiction right now...trying to navigate the profound rage and grief at our government, as well as being an anti-zionist Jew in a time where Israel is being more destructive than ever, and at the same time feeling like I am finally living the big beautiful life I have always dreamed of. I'm married to an incredible butch lesbian, we have an adorable tiny house with two pets, I am deeply connected to leftist activist organizing (Jewish, interfaith, and secular) in the city where I live, I have found a new physical hobby that brings me so much joy (roller skating!). Holding both is a lot, but the good is the only thing keeping me from crumbling under the bad. I just finished the first class of a queer Talmud course - Talmud is the documentation of Jewish moral and social argumentation around living a just life, and learning to participate in this kind of knowledge production is a kind of ancestral re-connection to the Jews of medieval Europe that I have been craving.
Hi Nic and friends! My name is Ali, I'm a 38 year old queer woman living in Buffalo, New York (Seneca/Haudenosaunee land). I'm living in a space of contradiction right now...trying to navigate the profound rage and grief at our government, as well as being an anti-zionist Jew in a time where Israel is being more destructive than ever, and at the same time feeling like I am finally living the big beautiful life I have always dreamed of. I'm married to an incredible butch lesbian, we have an adorable tiny house with two pets, I am deeply connected to leftist activist organizing (Jewish, interfaith, and secular) in the city where I live, I have found a new physical hobby that brings me so much joy (roller skating!). Holding both is a lot, but the good is the only thing keeping me from crumbling under the bad. I just finished the first class of a queer Talmud course - Talmud is the documentation of Jewish moral and social argumentation around living a just life, and learning to participate in this kind of knowledge production is a kind of ancestral re-connection to the Jews of medieval Europe that I have been craving.