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Rafe Neis (they/them)
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🏳️‍⚧️🎨🧏🏻‍♂️ queer enby interdisciplinary artist, writer, historian. painting, comics, zines, and installation art.
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Check out another compelling response to Rafael Neis incredible When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven! @postrafelite.bsky.social
Sarah Pierce Taylor foregrounds the weirdness, non-normativity, departicularizing of the rabbis in @ancientjewreview.bsky.social

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The Theory of the Raven — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
“The book, in re-centering this vibrancy, enacts a refusal of closure by demanding that we remain open to the persistence of heteronormative and androcentric patriarchy alongside queerness, transness,...
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April 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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April 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Spoilers: the rabbis weren't wild about the human-as-image of God, jewish zoology + biology blurred boundaries between the human + nonhuman, even to extent of queering sacrosanct ideas some people may have about human reproduction.

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April 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Is the idea that humans are made in God's image *really* THE supreme Jewish value? What are downsides of this seemingly progressive idea? Who/what is excluded? (Clue: racism, ableism, sexism, speciesism.) In an age of climate catastrophe what Jewish alternatives exist?

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Poster with background of yellow deer human like creature with text boxes: untangling Tselem Elohim! With Rafe neis. Tuesdays 3 pm ET, noon PT. April 22, April 29, May 6.
April 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Can you spot the ancient art I'm visually citing in my draft comic?
#wip #comics #antix #talmud #graphicnovel #ancient
thoserabbis.bsky.social Those Rabbis! @thoserabbis.bsky.social · Apr 2
First rough draft of comic complete. Here's the first page ...
Bavli Bava Metsia 84a-b
Rabbi Yohanan declares: I'm one of the last remaining Jerusalem beauties. Followed by a ritual that summons rabbi yohanans radiant beauty.
#talmud #graphicnovel #comics
A comic. Panel 1, A square relief with minimalist human facial features entitled rabbi Yohanan. Speech bubble: I am the last remaining Jerusalem beauty. 2. A Roman mask offers a recipe for summoning yohanans radiance. Text bubble says: 3. Text: "Take a silver cup from the furnace," drawing of smith doing this with tongs. 4. Text: Fill with red pomegranate seeds." Drawing of pomegranates and seeds in cup. 5. Text "Line rim with rose petals". Image of roses and petals in cup 6. Text "Put between sun and shade." We see cup and panel diagonally split between black and white. 7. Text: "and the rays that emanate are the rays of rabbi Yohanan's beauty."
April 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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#wip panel from Talmud Bava
Metsia 84a comic. Part of TALMUD: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
#bavli #comics #evileye #animals #lotus #drawagainstthegrain #comix #drawing #art #zine #sketch #graphicnovel #jewishstudies #antiquity #dafyomi #queercomics
March 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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When truth dies: (e)met.
Colorful ink and watercolor image with hybrid figures drawn from medieval Jewish manuscripts and Hebrew calligraphy
March 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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This is an illustration / interpretation / #wip of Talmud BM 84a about the fabulous Yohanan. Not sure why it's getting tagged as adult content.
thoserabbis.bsky.social Those Rabbis! @thoserabbis.bsky.social · Mar 22
#wip panel from Talmud Bava
Metsia 84a comic. Part of TALMUD: THE NOVEL

Simon catches sight of Yohanan bathing in the Jordan river and jumps in after them

#cliffhanger
#bavli #comics #evileye #manuscript #lotus #drawagainstthegrain
March 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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First rough draft of comic complete. Here's the first page ...
Bavli Bava Metsia 84a-b
Rabbi Yohanan declares: I'm one of the last remaining Jerusalem beauties. Followed by a ritual that summons rabbi yohanans radiant beauty.
#talmud #graphicnovel #comics
A comic. Panel 1, A square relief with minimalist human facial features entitled rabbi Yohanan. Speech bubble: I am the last remaining Jerusalem beauty. 2. A Roman mask offers a recipe for summoning yohanans radiance. Text bubble says: 3. Text: "Take a silver cup from the furnace," drawing of smith doing this with tongs. 4. Text: Fill with red pomegranate seeds." Drawing of pomegranates and seeds in cup. 5. Text "Line rim with rose petals". Image of roses and petals in cup 6. Text "Put between sun and shade." We see cup and panel diagonally split between black and white. 7. Text: "and the rays that emanate are the rays of rabbi Yohanan's beauty."
April 2, 2025 at 2:55 AM