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I'm not giving the troll space either because heaven knows trash is trash and they can take their antisemitic dehumanising shittery straight back to the vile sewer it spewed from, but I wanted to say to every other Jewish fan out there: We are with you. We do not stand with this. https://twitter.com/RukminiPande/status/1305923022310666240
So since I have a little spare time today between lectures, let's make a thread of a thousand antidotes to the nameless trashgoblin's fascistwank. Here's stuff I'm reading to ensure that I know more about Jewish identity and culture. Feel free to jump in with your own links!
Most recently I've been reading David Schraub's "White Jews: An Intersectional Approach" so I can get more of a feel for how conditional whiteness operates in these spaces. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ajs-review/article/white-jews-an-intersectional-approach/B3A8D66A0B6895A61814047FE406A2A6
I recently bought a copy of Algorithmic Shapeshifting ( http://www.aqueductpress.com/books/978-1-61976-165-0.php) because everything I've heard about it is great! I haven't posted about it on here since I haven't started reading it yet but I am promised SPACE, FEELINGS, TECH, IDENTITY and I am screaming YES GIMME
I learned recently that it is possible that werewolves are canonically Jewish (?) through the legend of Benyamin via @asalbanese (who then put up with 100 questions about this). The section I'm referring to is by Rabbeinu Ephraim Ben Shimshon. PDF here: http://www.zootorah.com/RationalistJudaism/RabbeinuEphraimWerewolves.pdf
(I can't read the PDF since I don't speak the language but there's never a point at which a handy dandy link isn't useful to someone else!)
I bought a copy of Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel ( http://www.lethepressbooks.com/store/p576/Everyone_on_the_Moon_is_Essential_Personnel.html#/) based solely on this thread and am extremely into the ideas mentioned: https://twitter.com/JulianKJarboe/status/1298483734132527109
There's @TGStoneButch (rest in power) who wrote a range of amazing stuff in fiction: https://xanwest.wordpress.com/eight-kinky-nights/ and was and still is a huge influence on me via their non-fiction: https://xanwest.wordpress.com/writing-advice-and-resources/
I periodically have a wander through @bogiperson's book reviews and recs since ey read on such a variety of topics that I'm constantly boggling at eir range! http://www.bogireadstheworld.com/tag/jewish-authors/
I'm very keen to read @RB_Lemberg's The Four Profound Weaves ( https://tachyonpublications.com/product/four-profound-weaves-the/). That summary makes it sound like everything I want in my life, but my bank account is dustbunnies so I'm at "LEARN SOME PATIENCE AND WAIT FOR IT, SAMIRA".
Someone recently recommended the book "Ariel Samson: Freelance Rabbi" by MaNishtana to me since I was talking about wanting to read more Jewish authors of colour. I want to check out reviews and run it by friends but the summary looks really interesting! https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/Ariel-Samson--Freelance-Rabbi-9780692071564
Lastly, a friend has a tiny person who is a voracious reader and so I'll be buying her a copy of "Who's Got the Etrog?" so both she and her mom can join me in learning about the Abayudaya community: https://www.karben.com/Whos-Got-the-Etrog-_p_1010.html
(All of my attempts to gift children books inevitably result in the 2 am phone call of things like SAMIRA, MY CHILD IS ASKING ME WHY 2 IS 2 AND YOU TOLD THEM 2 IS A THEORETICAL CONSTRUCT TO HELP US IMAGINE NUMBERS AND NOW MY KID IS REFUSING TO DO MULTIPLICATION I WILL KILL YOU)
In conclusion, don't let me discuss books with the tiny children in your life.
Also, I need to get to class. So as always: throw trolls in the trash, read books, learn better, do better.
Also, I need to get to class. So as always: throw trolls in the trash, read books, learn better, do better.
Putting this thread here so that anyone who is wandering about going "but is it REALLY antisemitic to write this fic?" understands why I think so. https://twitter.com/SamiraNadkarni/status/1306110962106130437
