Eleanor J. Bader
“All over the country women were running for state, local, and national office and I just decided to go for it.”
Taking Social Justice to the Statehouse with Rebecca Kislak
Tag: jewish feminism
Meet the Jewish Riotgrrrl Behind the World’s Only Drumming Magazine for Women
Alexa Hulse
“The drum industry has notoriously been a self-proclaimed boys club,” says Jewish Riotgrrrl Mindy Abovitz Monk — this is exactly why she decided to create Tom Tom. Lilith talked to her about the magazine’s genesis, fighting for the male dollar, and dressing up as an alien for her Bat Mitzvah.
Transplant: Art By Mail
Yaara Eshet
The window gallery exhibition, TRANSPLANT, explores what it is like to be transplants to North America (where they’ve both lived for over a decade) from a place with a different culture, climate and customs.
The Burden of Pregnancy
Shira M. Zemel
Two of my pregnancies ended in miscarriage, and the other two resulted in the greatest joys of my life. But all four were a burden — emotionally and physically, personally and professionally.
The Uterus Challah Recipe You’ve Been Waiting For
Logan Zinman Gerber
As I look at my new daughter, I think about what a few more decades of restrictions could mean for her future. I knead harder.
There is Still Time!
Lilith Staff
The deadline for Lilith’s Annual Fiction Contest has been extended until January 31st!
A Novel Takes on the Thorny World of Surrogacy
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Nuances and potential landmines arise with such a radically new way to bring children into the world.
“The Sex Lives of College Girls”— Relax and Enjoy the Feminism
Sharrona Pearl
If “The Sex Lives of College Girls” feels very familiar, it’s because, to any Gen Xer or older millennial who went, or knows someone who went, to an elite university, it’s supposed to be.
A Chicago Heiress Who Helped Jews Escape the Nazis
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Inspired by an heiress living in Paris when Hitler invaded, who might have gone home like most Americans did, but instead stayed and risked her life to help strangers.