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by Konstantin Malanin

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admire this enormous hibiscus I saw at the plant market

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Mount Holyoke College students

at Pride in Northampton, MA (1989)

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I recently made a few posts archiving some 60s-80s vintage jewish buttons, and many people expressed that they wished they could still find buttons like them - so I made a few simple designs of my own! These designs (& several others) are all available in my redbubble as buttons and stickers. I had a lot of fun making these & plan on making several new designs every month. I tried to make them as cheap as possible, but I am disabled and struggling to keep a roof over my head, so the little cut redbubble gives me goes towards keeping me alive. Hope you all enjoy (:

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“New Ways of Worship: Jewish Tattooing” by Joey Ramona

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Beyond land and economic resistance, some Mapuche communities have severed ties with the Chilean legal system entirely. Lof Temucuicui, one of the most prominent self-governing Mapuche territories, operates outside state jurisdiction, enforcing its own laws and defending its territory against police incursions.

This strategy represents a decisive break from traditional indigenous activism, which often seeks accommodation within existing state structures. The Mapuche movement is not advocating for greater representation or improved legal protections; it is challenging the legitimacy of the state itself.

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Woven Roots: Recovering the Healing Plant Traditions of Jews and Their Neighbors in Eastern Europe

A comprehensive guide to the medicinal plants and folk healers of Eastern Europe’s Pale of Settlement—mapping ancestral folkways, herbal traditions, and shared legacies of Ashkenazi Jews and their neighbors Includes a materia medica of healing plants and their traditional applications A companion guide to Ashkenazi Herbalism, Woven Roots explores the rich history of plant-based medicine and folk healing traditions of Eastern Europe from 1600 through the present. Authors Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel map the interwoven histories of the peoples of the Pale of Settlement, revealing untold stories of cooperation, shared knowledge, and mutual aid. The book shares how the people in this region—so often associated with conflict—often thrived in deep and reciprocal relationships with the land and each other. Tending and relying on the natural world, caring for their communities, and transmitting medicinal legacies from generation to generation, the healers of the Pale served as profound points of connection, interdependence, and life-sustaining knowledge. The authors offer illuminating—and surprising—original research on:

The pivotal but historically overlooked contributions of women folk healers

Deep, ancestrally rooted traditions of care for land and nature among Ashkenazi Jews

The rich cultural exchanges among Jews, Muslims, and Christians that allowed life in the Pale to flourish

Newly discovered recipes

Enduring legacies of mutual aid and community interdependence

How long-lost links between Eastern and Western folk knowledge can shed new light on your heritage and ancestral connections

Traditional magical practices of the Ashkenazim

This book includes an illustrated materia medica with plant names in Yiddish, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, and more. Informed by years of field and academic research, Woven Roots recovers the legacies of Jewish healers beyond myth, offering insights into the healing wisdom and interethnic cultural exchanges among marginalized groups in Eastern Europe and Eurasia.

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The Poisoner Who Loved A Fisherwoman

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French 20th Century Louis Philippe Style Commode

Fireside Antiques

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queering the map

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huge shout out to this little kid for writing my favorite poem

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The Mini Jewitch Pin

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Scenes from Kabbalat Shabbat

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A siddur from 1937, in accordance with the German & Polish tradition. Sold via Instagram.

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The favorite of the Jewitches Candles 🫧

Tikkun: Blood orange, green leaves & decar