Making Mensches

Bound Together with Leora Fridman

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Join us as we talk to Leora Fridman (she/her). Leora is a Jewish writer whose work is concerned with issues of identity, care, ability, and embodiment. Leora is the author of upcoming book “Bound Up: On Kink, Power, and Belonging” which is “an autotheoretical journey through bondage, domination, and intimacy, [in which she] uncovers how Jewish historical trauma can be challenged and explored in embodied relations.” “Bound Up” comes out TOMORROW and you can pre-order it here!

If you're based in NYC, check out ⁠Leora's New York launch event for Bound Up: October 10, 2024⁠. If you're outside of NY, you can still see Leora on her book tour!


Leora is an absolute trove of knowledge and links to the various things she mentions can be found below:

  • Dispossession, Diasporas, & Doikayt: Shellyne Rodriguez, Molly Crabapple, and Andreas Petrossiants in conversation at PPOW Gallery
    • Is Holocaust Education Making Anti-Semitism Worse? By Dara Horn
      • Sins Invalid's 10 Principles of Disability Justice
      • You Barely Even Work Here: On Higher Education and the Myths of Neutrality by Leora Fridman
      • The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop by Felicia Rose Chavez
      • Unthinking Mastery by Julietta Singh 
      • Jo Kent Katz: Transcending Jewish Trauma
      • Dori Midnight
      • Kruim Yachad (Torn Together): Diasporist Grief Work for the Long Haul
      • Understanding Antimsemitism: An Offering to Our Movement - A Resource from Jews for Racial & Economic Justice
      • New Jewish Culture Fellowship
      • Kaddish for an Unborn Avant-Garde by Maia Ipp
      • How To Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability and Doom by Johanna Hedva
        • Studies in Hysteria by Sigmund Freud and Joseph Breuer
        • Cruising Utopia by José Esteban Muñoz
        • Another Freedom: The Alternative History of An Idea by Svetlana Boym
          • A Birth of One’s Own: On Inheritance, Curation, and Production by Leora Fridman
          • Static Palace by Leora Fridman


            • Huge thank you to Leora for joining us for this episode, Jessie for editing the podcast, and Nate for our podcast music. If you are interested in supporting our work, you can do so here.

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