in Body and Religion Interdisciplinary Journal Editors Dr. Wesley N. Barker and Dr. Emily Holmes Summary: My essay and presentation focus on my Irigarayan-inspired performative photographs that reimagine body-spirit relations. I frame the creative exploration of my Sephardic Jewish identity as an…
December 2023 Thirteen Surrealist Provocations: Embodied Sacred Activism (We Shall Overcome) The thirteen surrealist provocations explored in this essay guide citizen activists to embody the sacred in their everyday lives. Each provocation (strategy, principle, and technique) targets a hegemonic force…
Published in: Studies in Interreligious Dialogue Abstract In the tradition of hakawatis (Arab storytellers) and the maggid (Jewish storytellers), I intend to ignite social-justice dialogue, ecological consciousness, and collective action. How can we transform habitual behaviors of entitlement and…
Published in: Philosophy as Practice in the Ecological Emergency: An Exploration of Urgent Matters, Ed. Lucy Weir, Palgrave Macmiilan, 2023 Summary: “I think the big crisis of our times is that our minds have been manipulated to give power to…
Published in: Socioscapes: International Journal of Societies, Politics, and Cultures; Gender and Sexualities Studies in Difficult Times: Uncertain Presents, Coalitional Futures, 2022 Summary: We have confused the apocalypse with Armageddon. Unlike Armageddon, a decisive battle between good (humankind) and…
Published in: Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, issue 41.3, The University of Nebraska Press, 2021 Summary: My color photography is a theater of psychological and physical transformations that reveal a luminescent excess. This excess combines both the civilized…
