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URL:https://www.bethelsudbury.org/events/loving-our-own-bones-video-and-bo
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SUMMARY:"Loving Our Own Bones" Video and Book Discussion
DESCRIPTION:In honor of Jewish Disability Awareness\, Acceptance and Inclus
 ion month in February\, Beth El's Inclusion Committee will host a 30-minut
 e viewing of an interview and discussion with Rabbi Julia Watts Belser abo
 ut their book\, Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual 
 Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole.\nREGISTER HERE\nJoin the Zoom d
 iscussion here!\nA scholar\, activist\, public speaker\, and poet\, Rabbi 
 Belser has been called a “fearless writer” who delves deeply into sacr
 ed literature. Braiding the insights of disabled\, feminist\, Black and qu
 eer thinkers alongside her own experiences as a queer disabled Jewish femi
 nist\, she gifts us with a radical act of spiritual imagination. Her inter
 pretations of Jewish texts are enlightening and inspiring\, and her readin
 gs demonstrate how disability wisdom can guide us all toward a powerful re
 ckoning.\n\nAfter the viewing\, a discussion will be led by an Inclusion C
 ommittee member. The focus will be on intersectionality of identities\, ho
 w those identities provide us with privileged or oppressed status in socie
 ty\, and the importance of our unique perspectives towards understanding o
 f Jewish texts\, rituals and creating community. Copies of the book will b
 e put aside in the Beth El library and available for borrowing before the 
 event. Email Carrie at seafox40@gmail.com to obtain one.\nSome background 
 from Inclusion Committee co-chair Carrie Fuchs:\nAs Martin Buber teaches\,
  no one was\, is\, or will ever be created just like each of us. We define
  ourselves by many unique and intersected identities — race\, ethnicity\
 , culture\, religion\, sex\, gender\, socioeconomic status\, education\, a
 ge and ability. Kimberle Crenshaw\, a professor at Columbia Law School ori
 ginally coined the term 'intersectionality' or intersectional theory to un
 derstand the lives and oppression of African-American women\, and captured
  the ways in which multiple identifications come together in unique ways f
 or each person.\nJoe Kort\, Ph.D\, in “Understanding Intersectional Iden
 tities” (Psychology Today) observes that through an understanding of int
 ersectionality\, "overlapping identities and experiences are taken into ac
 count in order to understand the complexity of prejudices and privileges p
 eople face." Mike Klein\, in his book chapter on "Teaching Intersectionali
 ty through 'I am From\,'" demonstrates that while we are all "geographical
 ly from somewhere\, we also identify ourselves by our families of origin\,
  experiences\, ideas\, histories and ethnicities\, hopes and fears." He co
 ncludes that through the exploring and "sharing of these identities\, we l
 earn to live together across our differences.”\nThere are parts of each 
 of us that we may feel intersect to define us most prominently. How do the
  many contributors to your identity interact with each other and society t
 o define who you are? Has it changed over time? Is it context-dependent?&n
 bsp\; What role does your unique perspective operate in your family\, comm
 unity and the world? What does your own unique combination bring to and en
 rich Beth El?
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