Ani ma'amin b'emuna shelem

[torahfeminist]

I love this blog dearly and the mutuals I’ve chatted to and whose posts I’ve interacted with over the years. The contributions that have been made, the consciousness that I’ve grown (a little!) due to resources posted here and silly little memes that regularly pop up on my feed.

More and more of my favourite blogs have become inactive over the past couple of years, and maybe it’s a bit parasocial of me - though I like to think it’s more accurately nostalgia - but that’s hurt my heart a little! I miss those people’s content and contributions. I’ve been on this site since I was 12 and have seen it at its peak as well as its long lull.

Having said all of that, my identity has changed a lot since I started this blog nearly 7 years ago. It was founded on reconciling my sexual orientation with my traditionalist religion, but my perspective on those traditions and faith systems have changed and my relationship to my sexuality has drastically changed too. I get nervous talking about those things publicly, even “anonymously” because of the fear of judgement. I know I don’t “owe” anything to anyone but I hate that lack of transparency about my personal growth and change when those things were what this blog was built around and what people follow me for.

I don’t have the energy to deal with anon asks and inbox messages shaming me for being honest about how I feel and what I believe.

I’d love to spend hours deep diving into obscure resources on Orthodox Judaism and lesbianism like I used to, but I study full time, work part time and am in a romantic relationship that I prioritise, making it difficult to post on here like I used to.

All of this is to say that I’m going on somewhat of a hiatus. I don’t know if I’ll come back here in the same capacity that I used to be, but I would still like to hang out here again. I suspect I’ll still pop on here fairly regularly to reblog stuff I find funny or interesting and I’ll probably still post if I have something I want to say lol - even if it just goes into the void and gets no interactions!

It might seem weird that I’m writing this while also saying that I’ll still stick around, but I just wanted to put it into words and pin it to the top of my blog. That way, if anyone feels about my blog the way I feel about my mutuals that are no longer active, they know I’ve not completely abandoned this space. Who knows? maybe no one cares; But I’m thankful for the past few years 💕

[torahfeminist]

Glad the world is finally figuring out about Nicki Minaj what me and plenty others have been saying for years

No one seemed to care when she married a convicted r*apist

[torahfeminist]

And don’t forget that she threatened and harassed his victim-survivor too, then made it out on social media that it was a case of a white woman who made false allegations against a black man, as was common during Jim Crow….when the victim/survivor was a woman of color who was a teenager at the time!!!!

How are people surprised that she “has the utmost respect” for Trump, a certified authoritarian, anti-LGBT+, misogynistic, racist man convicted of s*xual misconduct who has incited violence and attacks on democracy (hello Jan 6th)?!

[torahfeminist]

Glad the world is finally figuring out about Nicki Minaj what me and plenty others have been saying for years

No one seemed to care when she married a convicted r*apist

[arsenic-clownip]

by the way the fact that "youre treating me like a child/animal" arre synonymous to "youre treating me badly" really shows how we as a societyy treat animals and minors.

[torahfeminist]

I truly think that the whole “is menstrual leave good for women?” debate among feminists would be settled if women’s health would just be taken seriously.

Women need menstrual leave because so many women suffer during their periods and are forced to use their sick leave, furthering inequality.

On the other hand however, menstrual leave also re-enforces the stereotype that women are less capable than men at doing their jobs due to their periods, and employers may be less likely to hire women due to the “inconvenience” of providing women with that leave.

If there was actually adequate research on women’s reproductive health and providers actually cared to help women that were suffering, women would not need time away from work whilst having their periods.

[jadeseadragon]

“Afghanistan on the Edge” by Ebrahim Noroozi, Associated Press. An Afghan refugee rests in the desert next to a camp near the Torkham Pakistan-Afghanistan border, in Torkham, Afghanistan, Friday, November 17, 2023. A huge number of Afghans refugees entered the Torkham border to return home hours before the expiration of a Pakistani government deadline for those who are in the country illegally to leave or face deportation."

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[torahfeminist]

A NEW INTRAPENAL CONTRACEPTIVE

The newest development in male contraception was unveiled recently at the American Women’s Surgical Symposium. Dr. Sophia Merkin announced the preliminary findings of a study conducted on 763 unsuspecting male graduate students at a large midwestern university. In her report, Dr. Merkin stated that the new contraceptive – the IPD – was a breakthrough in male contraception. It will be marketed under the trade name “Umbrelly”. The IPD (intrapenal device) resembles a tiny folded umbrella which is inserted through the head of the penis into the scrotum with a plungerlike instrument. Occasionally there is perforation of the scrotum, but this is disregarded since it’s known that the male has few nerve endings in this area of his body. The underside of the umbrella contains a spermicidal jelly, hence the name “Umbrelly”.

Experiments on a thousand white whales from the continental shelf (whose sexual apparatus is said to be closest to man’s) proved the Umbrelly 100% effective in preventing production of sperm, and eminently satisfactory to the female whale since it doesn’t interfere with her rutting pleasure. Dr. Merkin declared the Umbrelly to be statistically safe for the human male. She reported that of the 763 grad students tested with the device, only two died of scrotal infection, three developed cancer of the testicles and 13 were too depressed to have an erection. She stated that the common complaints ranged from cramping and bleeding to acute abdominal pain. She emphasized that these symptoms were merely indications that the man’s body had not yet adjusted to the device. Hopefully, the symptoms would disappear within a year. One complication caused by the IPD was the incidence of massive scrotal infection necessitating the surgical removal of the testicles. “But this is a rare occurrence,” said Merkin, “too rare to be statistically important.” She and the other distinguished members of the Women’s College of Surgeons agreed that the benefits far outweighed the risk to any individual man.

– ©1974 Written by Belita H. Cowan. Illustration by Frankie Collins. As printed in Taking Charge of Your Fertility.

[nobrashfestivity]

Edvard Munch

Iterations of “The Loney Ones” (Two human beings) 

Mixed media on paper and color woodcuts, 1899

[ertik-einstein]

It's been 700 days. 700 days since October 7. 700 day since hundreds lost their life and family. 700 days since whole communities where destroyed and disbanded in a spen of a few hours. 700 days since people where kidnapped from their homes, still in pajamas. 700 days since people who where just partying together, dancing to the music, where massacred. 700 days since a who countries life turnd upside down. 700 days since I woke up to the sirens at 6:30 am at that Saturday.

700 days had past. 700 hundreds days of death, of hurt, of bombs and of small victories and great losses. 700 days of 900 dead soldiers, 1053 dead civilians, and tens of thousands of deaths in Gaza. Some of them were innocent.

700 days of war. 700 days and STILL THE HOSTAGES AREN'T HOME. 🎗️

[weirdobarbie]

SOMEONE GREAT (2019) dir. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson

[philosophybits]

“Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you have perceived it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day, and you will come at last to love the world with an all-embracing love.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[elizabethsinclair]

- 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚣𝚊𝚋𝚎𝚝𝚑 𝚜.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[hailruth-deactivated20260123]

magen david & symbol of venus design found across the pages of shifra, a jewish feminist magazine founded in 1984. read about and access some editions of shifra here.

[maimonidiva]

[vegance]

anyone who calls all individual actions like thrifting, going vegan or using public transport bad or useless, and instead encourages people to just wait for some kind of big revolution to happen before even considering making any change in their own lives is not actually that interested in things getting better

[torahfeminist]

Reminds me of that celebrity (can’t remember who) that went on Jimmy Fallon and stated that she was no longer vegan because “I decided it wasn’t up to me to fix things and it’s the fault of big corporations!! 😃” or something like that to great applause from the audience.

Personally I thought it was obvious but capitalism is built on ‘supply = demand”. If a large enough group of people stopped demanding the harmful thing, corporations would move away from it because it’s not profitable. Voting with your dollar and making small changes in your personal life, and encouraging others to do the same is how you create change when operating in the not so great capitalist system.

If you take the bus to work instead of driving, you’re not going to single-handedly end climate change; But you will show the government that people use this service and it’s worth investing in.

I feel like anyone who seriously wants and cares about change knows that.

[torahfeminist]

I know this is old news but I really do think it’s funny how it seems that the same people shaming JoJo Siwa for no longer calling herself a lesbian are also the ones to say “sexuality is fluid and you’re allowed to change your identity”.

JoJo Siwa isn’t a bad person for realising her sexuality is much more like “I like what I like” than it is strictly homosexual like it is for lesbian women.

We’ve all thought things about our identity before that we found didn’t align with us anymore as time went on and we learnt new things.