Rafe Neis (they/them)
postrafeliteart.bsky.social
Rafe Neis (they/them)
@postrafeliteart.bsky.social
🏳️‍⚧️🎨🧏🏻‍♂️ 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

www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/4/...
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.

Financial aid available!
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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?

Take my class!
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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
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
April 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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March 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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When truth dies: (e)met.
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.
#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
April 2, 2025 at 2:55 AM