Rachel Joravsky
By Rachel Joravsky
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Culture Heroic Teacher, Pugnacious Union Thug — Remembering My Grandma Doris
My grandma was what I like to call O.G (original gangsta) union thug. Doris “Heavy D” Joravsky was a Chicago Public School teacher for thirty years. She taught in schools all over the city from Burr Elementary in a pre-gentrified Bucktown to George Armstrong Elementary in Rogers Park. She was a straight-shooter, who was dedicated…
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Art How Black Culture Taught Me What It Means To Be Jewish
On Tuesday, September 26th — in front of my most intimate friends and a handful of random Brooklynites who thought “sure, I’ll go” — I will finally become a Bat Mitzvah girl at the age of 26. Under Littlefield Brooklyn’s brazen lights, this proud queer/power Jewess will cascade into womanhood at “Rachel and Rachel’s Queer/Black…
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