Jewish Kink, Power, and Belonging: Judaism Unbound Episode 461 - Leora Fridman


Leora Fridman is the author of Bound Up: On Kink, Power, and Belonging, and also serves as director of The New Jewish Culture Fellowship. She joins Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg for a conversation exploring the intersection of Jewishness and kink — and the immense importance of art, to the future of Judaism.

[1] Head to JudaismUnbound.com/classes to check out our up upcoming 3-week mini-courses in the UnYeshiva! Explore Judeo-Futurism, Shabbetai Zvi, and more!

[2] Purchase Bound Up: On Kink, Power, and Belonging via this link. And don’t forget to enter the code RBOUND for a discount! Check out Material/Inheritance, a 2023 exhibition curated by Leora Fridman, via this link.

[3] For a source sheet created by Margot Valles — a student in the UnYeshiva (and now a faculty member as well!) — on the topic of Judaism and kink, see Toldot Kink. This was initially created as a final project for the UnYeshiva course “Jewish Discontinuity,” taught by Lex.

[4] Read “Kaddish for an Unborn Avant-Garde,” written by Maia Ipp and referenced by Fridman in this episode, here.

[5] For an article where Fridman dives deeper into the root fasci-, discussed in this conversation and at the core of Bound Up, see “On Diasporic Speech,” a piece featured in Prtcls.

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