Writing
Empress Theodora: The Woman and the Legend | Spolia Magazine #18 (pdf)
Graphic design: Carmelle Rubinstein
Poverty, Morality, and the Art Establishment: the Photographs of Dorothea Lange | Spolia Magazine #9 (pdf)
Graphic design: Carmelle Rubinstein
(Not) A Hair Out of Place | Spolia Magazine #4 (pdf)
Graphic design: Carmelle Rubinstein
When Gideon Levy Blindly defended Stern | Haoketz: Critical platform on socioeconomic, political, media, cultural and other issues in Israel and beyond (in Hebrew)
Let Go of the Reigns and Listen to Us | Haoketz: Critical platform on socioeconomic, political, media, cultural and other issues in Israel and beyond (in Hebrew)
Lectures and Talks
Hildegard of Bingen: Mystic, Artist, Composer, Pioneer | Zoom lecture with the London Drawing Group
This lectures looks at the 12th century prophetess and visionary Hildegard of Bingen, through the concept of voice. By centring voice, both in the physical and the metaphorical sense of the word, the lecture doesn't focus on a specific work or event from Hildegard's life. Rather, it considers how Hildegard - in everything she did - understood and used her voice as a form of expression that could lead to earthly and spiritual liberation.
Heloise and Abelard: Sexting, Consent, and Female Agency in the Medieval | Zoom lecture with the London Drawing Group
In this lecture the letters of Heloise and Abelard, the 12th century lovers, are discussed in light of contemporary discourse on the meaning of consent in the post #MeToo era. Relevant for those who are familiar with the history of Heloise and Abelard, as well as for those who are new to it, the lecture avoids the binary catagories through which they are usually discussed. Instead, it looks at the benefits as well as the limits of consent as a measuring tool for desire.
The Nursing Madonna: Images of Mary Breastfeeding Jesus | Zoom lecture with the London Drawing Group
The Story of the Travelling Vulva: Medieval Genitalia Badges
Lecture with the Vagina Museum
Images of the Nursing Madonna contain theological, political, and social meanings. This lecture will explore these images and their varied meanings, placing them in their historical context, while also offering subversive readings of the image. Throughout the Middle Ages the image of the nursing Madonna grew in popularity which reached its peak in the high and late Middle Ages, when milk was imbued with sacramental qualities. Receiving breast milk from the Virgin became a mark of sanctity, so much so that grown men envisioned themselves breastfeeding from the Mother of God. Our own surprise at seeing images of Mary with her breast exposed indicates just how much this uneasiness is still a part of our culture, and how dominant the obsession with controlling female bodies and their natural functions still is today.