Re-Opened Diary

I’m messy and disorganized and clumsy and passionate and loud. I can never open my art locker. I bite my nails. I sing a lot, and not that well. I drive my friends up the wall with my random enthusiasm. I can’t focus on my art. I don’t shave my legs. I don’t wear makeup. [...]

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Bare Minimum Girl

I’m a student again, taking classes at Drisha as a part-time Arts Fellow. The emphasis is not only on my Jewish learning at Drisha, but also on creating work at the same time that is inspired by or connected to what I am learning in class. I also will be working full-time at my job. Almost immediately [...]

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About a Blog

This blog was formerly known as “Becoming a Byuralistke: or, How to empower people to speak a language I just learned” and I wrote about my experiences as an employee at and board member of Yugntruf – Youth for Yiddish, as well as about my own adventures in learning Yiddish. The blog pretty much died when a) I stopped working [...]

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