by Shekhiynah Larks | May 29, 2020 | Identity
I can’t breathe. Those words became a catchphrase for the Black Lives Matter movement after the police killing of Eric Garner in 2014, but when I say it, I mean it literally. Sometimes I can’t breathe. I have respiratory issues, including severe sleep apnea. I’m...
by Shekhiynah Larks | May 20, 2020 | Identity
As a multicultural Korean-Jewish woman, it is rare to be in a space that is dedicated to nourishing and cherishing all aspects of my identity at once. I believe that every person has the right to define themselves and to be imagined and treated as a complex being. It...
by Shekhiynah Larks | May 12, 2020 | Arts & Culture, Identity
Galeet Dardashti comes from a long line of renowned Persian singers. Her grandfather, Yona Dardashti, was a famous performer of Persian classical music in Iran. Her father, Farid Dardashti, sang on a weekly television show in Iran and later became a hazzan in the...
by Shekhiynah Larks | May 4, 2020 | Arts & Culture, Identity
Elijah Gordon, aka Sølä, The Jewmaican, is a bright, up and coming musician and playwright who just released his first EP called “OnTrack.” On the EP, the 18-year-old explores his Jewish-Jamaican identity and culture through rap, spoken word, and singing. Team Be’chol...
by Shekhiynah Larks | Apr 21, 2020 | Identity
Most of the time we think of the Holocaust as limited to Europe, but it reached North Africa as well. Below Shay Lavi shares a tribute to his grandmother, who survived a concentration camp in Italian-occupied Libya and started a new life in Israel. Whenever we talk...
