I am a feminist atheist immigrant of a Israeli and Jewish backgrounds
I am a feminst atheist immigrant of Israeli and Jewish backgrounds. I am married for almost five and half years, to a woman who has literally crossed the face of the earth to meet me in the heart of the Israeli desert, in the little socialist and self suficant community I lived in at the time (a kibbutz). In Israel I was a grandon of a writer who published more than seventeen books, and I tried to write some poetry and short stories myself. I left all this behind me when I came to the U.S., and I still struggle (like many others immigrants) with issues of culture, tradition, national and political identity, as well as private one.
I am an eco-feminist, worries about the enviorment and trying to buy mostly organic profucts, fruits and vegtables. I am vegeterian, but eat dairy products and (cage-free) eggs (since you do not have to kill an animal or to cage it to obtain these products). I am also concerned about global warming and the future of our planet, especially under the leadership of some of the current leaders in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East (as well as Africa and Asia).
I am a (radical?) leftist, who thinks that socialism still has somthing to offer in our capitalist world and hope the U.S. will follow the example of Venezeula, Bolivia, Peru and other Sothern American countries who review their guiding economic and social principles and re-consider them. I support non traditional families; marriage or any other family arrnagment people of GLBTQQ people find suitable. I am for woman's right to choose, especially in the face of an over populated world that has difficultties to feed and educate the inhabitnats it already has.
I am a Violence Prevnetion Educator in the Aurora Center for Advocacy and Education on issues of sexual and relationship violence. The Aurora Center still have many open volunteer positions and a coming training on February 23-25. They also have 24 hours, confedential, help line- if you, or someone you know, needs help with a situation of relationship or sexual violence, or just want to know which other services the center can provide.
I am a senior, honors, student. I am a history major (with focus on Holocaust and Genocide studies), a GWSS minor (when I began it was Women Studies), who is particulary intrested on the currents debate within feminism and in the general society on issues that relates to freedom of choice and empowerment versus patriarchal opression, especially in fields related to sexuality. I do not believe prostitution (as an instituion) should be legalized, but the women who work as prostitutes should be seen as victims rather than criminals. I do not believve pornography is empowering for anyone other than the (mostly white) men who get an endless supply of flesh, in a constant serch for younger women (and children) that make them rich and famous while their subjects end in the trash (or in other dumpsites for used and ruin human bodies).
I hold very strong opinions and beleifs, but I am always ready to discuss them, and to be convinced (in a logical and reaonable way) that I am wrong and that other opinions or beliefs can better suit my political and personal views.
I tend to write to much about subjects I am passionate about, so I would like to appologise if you still reading this. If you got here, you will see some of my (short) reccomandations for books and movies.
Books: "Having Faith" and "Living Downstream" by Sandra Steingraber (both deal with feminism and the enviorment).
Movies: "Hard Candy", "The Death and the Maiden", "Though Guise" and Struggeling with Menhood" (by Jackson Katz), "Bagdad Coffe" and the three colors trilogy by Kislowski (a Polish director).
Music: many Israeli and Hebrew folk and light pop songs, but also Johnny Cash, Hugh Blumenfeld and Lorenna Mc'Cannit.
Thank you for reading all this- if you made it so far.