"Taking the State Out of the Body" Workshop

Join author Eliana Rubin for an interactive event based on their recently published book, Taking the State Out of the Body: A Guide to Embodied Resistance to Zionism. Co-sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace Asheville.

This workshop follows a by Eliana.

In this workshop participants will co-create a transformative environment through popular education and applied practice including disentangling from Zionist propaganda, rooting into anti-Zionist and anti-fascist histories of resistance, practicing more collaborative ways of organizing, and creating space for our collective grief.

The fight for Palestine is a fight for all of our aliveness. We cannot afford to be numb. The ongoing colonization of Palestine and current genocide we are witnessing can feel unbearably devastating. And yet, we must keep feeling so that we can keep fighting. As Jews, our trauma has been weaponized as a moral cover for genocide. And as people in the belly of the imperialist beast of the U.S., the government counts on our numbness as we implicitly consent to billions of dollars being sent to the Israeli apartheid state every year. We must keep feeling. We must keep resisting. We must keep transforming.

Eliana Rubin builds transgressive relationships with bodies, land, and lineage through their work as a somatic practitioner, politicized facilitator, anti-Zionist organizer, and full-spectrum doula. Their practice centers queer and trans organizers in developing embodied leadership as well as Jewish organizers in healing intergenerational trauma for the sake of collective liberation. They were born and raised by the dramatic landscapes and freaks of the San Francisco Bay Area, and are now rooted in the red clay of Durham, North Carolina. sanctuaryembodied.org

Jewish Voice for Peace is the largest progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization in the world, organizing a grassroots, multiracial, cross-class, intergenerational movement in solidarity with the Palestinian freedom struggle. instagram.com/jvp.asheville

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