got featured as Artist of the Day today on Threadless! ♥
planning to restock my Etsy shop (zines, stickers, originals, etc.) for the first time in a whole year (!) soon, but in the meantime my work is available anytime on apparel - you could even get it on a color if you wanted to.
one of the perils of having a professional/art main with personal sideblogs is that you WILL eventually accidentally reblog to main
just glad it was the cute post about letting people take care of you & not [redacted nonsense]
if you want to see what’s inspiring me lately you can follow @sleepworker! if you want the [redacted nonsense] we gotta be mutuals or you have to find me naturally & anonymously through tags like the good old days
he is born, raised and based in gaza. please help him reach his goal of $50K to get his family to safety across the rafah border into egypt. as of right now… it’s $7.5K per person to evacuate gaza.
one of the three palestinian students shot by a racist in vermont for wearing kufiyas and speaking arabic. hisham’s injuries have left him paralysed from below the chest.
note: you can call everyday. they tally the number of calls per issue. so more calls = higher chance for them to take action. p.s. you mainly go to voicemail so don’t worry about phone call anxiety. fight through it just this once please.
p.s. if the template is outdated, just use it as a guide and add a few sentences here and there that reflect the current situation. i can’t find any recent templates so :/ at least this is something
Back in September you gave me permission to paint a patch of your Shamir design, and I finally got up the courage to actually try to make the patch (I was nervous because I usually paint more text, not images so often). Here's the picture as promised! I'm really excited for this little guy to live on my jacket. Thank you so much for sharing your art with us! I get so many compliments when I carry the water bottle with your stickers on it.
ohhhh wow!!! this is so sweet, i absolutely love that you’ll be carrying this little friend around with you. i really enjoy the subtle color variation you did with the paint too, to give it that sort of shiny effect for the gold & the cloudy nebula purples on the body. it really came out so lovely, thank you so much for showing me! ♥
do you know of any other antizionist artists who make jewish/judaica art, especially handmade stuff? my antizionist jewish friend is looking for stuff to put on her wedding registry and obv doesnt want her money funding genocide
yes, i absolutely do - but unfortunately there isn’t (to my knowledge) a handy list of avowedly anti-zionist Jewish artists/shops, for the obvious reason that something like that would put most of us in danger of harassment or worse. i hesitate to make public recommendations on that qualification for the same reason, & also because not everyone feels the same way about the word/label even if our politics are similar.
what i can happily do is point you towards my friend’s Judaica distro - i’m linking to the Instagram page rather than the website because they’ve worked with a lot of artists in various places via pop-up shows & scrolling the gallery is a good way to get a lot more names than just whoever’s in stock right now in the shop section. most (probably not all, but at least a very large percentage) of the artists you can find this way are either openly & proudly anti-zionist or non-zionist. you and/or your friend can scroll & see if anyone’s work catches your eye, then find that person’s individual account or website to see if a) they have any clear political stance & b) they’re selling things currently. it’s a bit more work but there’s a lot of good stuff out there.
i’m also happy to make individual, private recommendations based on type of work - for example if you DM’d me looking for anti-zionist Jewish ceramicists or candlemakers i could give you names right away. lots of folks i know would probably be happy to be recommended publicly as anti-zionist artists - i certainly am - but i don’t want to make that decision for anyone else. i know people personally who have lost their jobs over speaking out publicly against Israel, & not everyone is in a position to be loud/visible that way even if they are doing other things quietly or behind the scenes to support Palestine. best of luck!
Bat Sarah Press (specializes in Ketubot and Gematria prints, but now also stocks textile, wood, and ceramic ritual objects, baseball caps, and a couple zines)
Candle Zayde makes custom beeswax ritual candles on a sliding scale.
Big Bubbe Energy makes beeswax ritual candles, besamim for Havdallah, and herbal medicines in the forms of teas and pre-rolls to smoke.
Beheld Ritual Arts makes Shabbat and Havdallah candles, along with other cool stuff that’s not explicitly Judaica.
Corvid Crossing Studio makes Jewish art prints; a bunch of them are explicitly Anti-Zionist.
EmilyKShop also makes radical/leftist Jewish art prints. the artist also crochets custom kippot at this shop.
Diasflora makes art prints, jewelry, t-shirts, stickers, that excellent “Mazal Tov Cocktail / Goodnight Alt-Right” patch you’ve probably seen, and custom Shabbat clock covers.
MirandaCohenMakes makes Jewish Anti-Zionist art prints and laser-cut acrylic Jewish jewelry.
Sol Yael Weis makes Jewish art prints, and donates some of the proceeds to restore olive groves in Palestine and some to rematriate land on northeast Turtle Island.
Chelsea Taxman sells plant essence blends for the Hebrew months and for counting the Omer, and an herbal smoking blend, and other herbal medicines (based on personal consult).
Miknaf Ha’aretz has a shop which sells zines and a coloring book internationally (with additional shipping fees); and the Radical European Jewish Calendar, Linke Fligl t-shirts, Sol Weis’ art prints, and Dori Midnight’s potions and elixirs, to the UK only.
Pushcart Judaica
sells accessible and liberatory Judaica, including: zines, posters,
tinctures/elixirs/potions, t-shirts, stickers, and more. some of these
offerings appear at other stores on this list, but some of it i haven’t
seen anywhere else.
Mika Benesh is an anti-colonial designer who makes ceramic ritual objects (mezuzot, natla cups, and candle holders), metal jewelry, and screenprints.
Megillat Guf (on Instagram) makes Jewish ceramics and hand-painted mirror spells for self-love in Hebrew or Yiddish, and sells them at sliding-scale or on auction to support liberatory causes in Palestine and the US.
Micah Bazant makes Jewish, Anti-Zionist, and queer art prints, as well as a “Zionism = Death” t-shirt.
Zhydovka makes a wide variety of Judaica - Shabbat candle sticks, Channukiot, tallitot gadol, tallitot katan, shofarim, yadim, mezuzot, challah and matzah covers, underwear adorned with the letter Shin, and more. Custom stuff here, Etsy shop here.
Ori Zusha spins tzitzit, makes tallitot, and makes custom amulets, by commission. their email is ori.zusha@gmail.com.
Val Schlosberg takes custom orders for flamboyant queer ceramic Judaica. you can see more examples of their work on their instagram.
and here’s a zine on how to forage your own ethical etrog & lulav for Sukkot!
please feel free to add to this list! please do not feel free to fuck around. thank you!!
Fury Wren (that’s me) does handspun tzitzit strings, natural or multicolor, in wool and silk and more! also golem needle felties when I have the time. insta is here, email hello @ furywren.com to place an order!
wild to see this on my dash right after answering that ask from @goths-eat-electricity - i do still have some reservations about making lists like this, although the framing of “Anti-Zionist and/or Diasporist” may leave enough room for it to not necessarily be used as a “list of anti-zionist Jewish artists.” i just think folks should be aware of the potential for targeting. that said, many people on this list are friends & mutuals who i know are very public about their politics & would have no issue with it.
i appreciate being included! just want to update that my Redbubble shop closed last year - i do have a Threadless & a (sporadically stocked) Etsy shop.
just finished the Kickstarter stretch goal bookplate for Beyond the Pale, which i believe will actually be printed on the inside cover of the books - it’s not too late to pre-order the game, it could be your name on that bottom scroll!
the designs & lettering on the hands making the priestly blessing are a reference to a famous illustration from a Kabbalistic text called the Shefa Tal (with some changes, such as removing the tetragrammaton)
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