Di kale: The bride

Abstract

Queer Jewish politics has utilized a depressive framework of moral injury as well as an understanding of the past that is rooted in nostalgia. This has bound queer Jewishness to the heterosexual and cisgender structures that harm it. Simultaneously, academic work on queer Jews has either been ethnographic or confined to the queering of Jewish history. In this multimedia work that is both written and quilted, I turn to the marginalized practices of the past, contemporary queer theory, and Jewish mysticism in order to find a reparative praxis for today. That practice is craft. Craft not only has its roots in queer and Jewish tradition but creates a space outside of time under which liberation becomes imaginable.