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Olivia Devorah Tucker
they/them | Fan of Jewish Demons and Monsters
www.TalmudMagic.com

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TalmudMagic! Energetically narrated, lusciously illustrated zines of Jewish Demonology research ~ How did the terrifying demon queen Lilith become a trans/feminist icon? What can exorcism lore teach us about social justice? Is it time to build that Golem? Educator Olivia Devorah Tucker (they/them) teaches at Shoresh Coffee, collaborates on the Glitterbox Theater stage, and builds ritual with Ratzon: Center for Healing and Resistance. "Olivia puts the femme in ephemera, and the trans in translation!"

Check out their work at the Queer Craft Market Spooky Social on Sunday, Oct. 11 from 12-4 p.m. at Spirit Hall!

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Better late than never! Thanks to everyone who joined us for A Night of Whimsy. It was an honor to have The Queen host our silly antics. A truly magical evening! ✨🫧

📸: @rachelbachy
📸: @talmudmagic

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Atzmeinu (Our Bones), a collaborative zine featuring poetry, prose, liturgy, art, challah, sculpture, amulets, & beyond from TWENTY-NINE trans & non-binary Jewish creatives, is available for online purchase RIGHT NOW!

This is a physical, full-color zine. You’re not going to want to miss it. Link our bio.

All profits from the sale of Atzmeinu go to Gaza Soup Kitchen.

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Thank you so much to everyone who came out to the third annual Pittsburgh Jewish Zine Festival at @mr_roboto_project! We saw our biggest turnout yet and had an absolute blast sharing pickles, art, learning, & DJ Meddyglyn’s ambiance with yinz.

This year, we raised $917 at our merch table to donate to @gazasoupkitchen, over TRIPLE last year’s total. We are so incredibly proud of our steadily growing community and the impact we can make together.

Watch this space; copies of our collaborative zine Atzmeinu (Our Bones) will be going up for online sale very soon.

#pittsburgh #pittsburghevents #zinefair #zinefest #freepalesti̇ne

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We’re excited to share who’s vending with us next week at The Pittsburgh Jewish Zine Fest
5786! This year’s fest has friendly faces, new and old…

Olivia Devrorah Tucker (they/them) is an aspiring Jewish Demonologist, Talmud educator,
theatre collaborator and challah sculptor. Olivia serves as Alumni Engagement and Community
Partnerships Associate for SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva, writes show notes for
Judaism Unbound’s The Oral Talmud podcast, and co-ops as a member of The Glitterbox
Theater in their home of Pittsburgh, PA (Shawnee & Haudenosaunee land). Olivia puts the
femme in ephemera & the trans in translation!

Tzvi Finkel (they/them) is a multimedia artist, community organizer, and rabbinical school
dropout in so-called Pittsburgh, PA. They are the founder and Rosh Yeshiva of Beis Lakish.
Healing work and restorative justice is the foundation of their political, spiritual and artistic
practices. You can find them on the bus or admiring moss on the stone floor.

Circle Aleph is a collectively-run seasonal publication focused on rekindling the Jewish anarchist
literary traditions.

Come by the Mr. Roboto Project on Sunday, August 30th from 1pm-5pm to check out their
tables for zines, art, mutual aid & harm redux supplies, and more! All funds from our official
merch table go to mutual aid in Palestine @gazasoupkitchen

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50 second details views of my paintings from ANTAGONY on view thru sept 21 at @tissuefarm

Dyybuk
House paint, household chemicals, charcoal, granite dust, powdered tempera, chalk, wax, graphite, pastels and stains.
58 x 68
11/2023

A very raw painting made at the @joanmitchellfdn in solitary I excised a part of myself, extracting, examining demons and shadow. The movement of a spiritual fall. Inspired by Jewish Demonology and the incredible dissections of #talmudic readings with @talmudmagic
#mentalhealth #demonology #spirit #expression

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⭕️ Come learn with Olivia & Tzvi at Beis Lakish's Rosh Hashana class, "Drawing New Traditions"! ⭕️ Sunday Sept. 13th from 2 to 6pm Register at link in bio. We'll be diving into what that magical Ḥoni the Circle Maker has to say about scarcity, abundance, and what to do when the traditions we've inherited don't meet our current material needs. We'll be learning a portion of Taanit 23a in the original Hebrew & Aramaic—but fear not, all you need to know is your Alef Bet! If you need help learning the hebrew alphabet, reach out to tzvi at tzvi@beislakish.com . Beis Lakish classes are always free to attend, and masking while indoors required.

Image ID: Orange text is on a textured paper background with a scribbly drawing of mushrooms in a circle. The text reads "Drawing New Traditions: A Rosh HaShanah Talmud Class with Beis Lakish. Lessons from Honi, the Circle Maker. Sunday Sept. 13th from 2 to 6pm Register at tinyurl.com/bl-honi26

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1. I led a papermaking workshop yesterday! with plants (+1 mushroom) from a spot on the Ohio River. Knotweed mugwort pokeweed vetch false indigo + others. It was my first time bringing others into the practice and it was awesome.

2. I got to hang with the Young Naturalists for two days, so we did Colors of the River at Duck Hollow. What a cool group with new perspectives on pigments <3

3. Stephen jumped in for a lichen cameo with Maria Pinto. The next slide is possibly a young coral slime mold.

5. Forgotten in Garfield…

6. Checking on some century-old tar and oil on the Allegheny

7+8. Colors of the River at Dead Man’s Hollow. Super special place and people.

9-15. THE RUINS! Wow. Almost too speechless to type about it. Go see this old coal mine stewarded by mosaicists for yourself.

16. I’m collecting photos of PA Dutch-like folk art, and so much symbolism is found in trivets. Makes sense as the kitchen is the hearth is the place to love and protect. This is my dear friend Stephen’s trivet, which has been in the family for a couple generations.

17. Me in high school, holding a trombone with my best low brass friends. I played thruout college in every ensemble I could find but put it down for nearly a decade. I’ve just picked it up again after finding a trombone from the 70’s in a late rabbi’s estate sale downtown Pittsburgh. Something is waking in me that is very happy to have a voice again and I’d love to share some music with you all soon (guitar melodica trombone whatever). I’m writing a brass hocket!

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Mostly pigment-making for/with others lately. Mostly making music and cleaning my house. Mostly off of Instagram and stagnant in my writing. Thanks for your patience, get in the water, love on your friends.

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Announcing the Jewish Diaspora Movement!

The Jewish Diaspora Movement (JDM) is a participatory network advancing an ethical future for Jews, Jewishness, and Judaism rooted in the solidaristic diasporic traditions that have been the core of Jewish life for millennia.

We connect and amplify the growing constellation of Jewish cultural and spiritual organizations that reject ethnonationalism and proudly value universal freedom and the sanctity of all life.

Check out the 40 organizations that make up the Founding Minyan of this new movement!

LINK IN BIO

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📖 Learning for Liberation: A Shavuot All-Night Study In 📖
📆 from Fri, 5/22 at 11 pm to dawn!
📍Bantha Tea Bar, 5002 Penn Ave.

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On the holiday of Shavuot, it’s customary to stay up all night studying Torah. We’re putting our own spin on this tradition with a drop-in, all-night text study ft. various Jewish and secular texts that we consider to be fertile ground for liberatory interpretation & discussion. Political education is foundational to the work of collective liberation, and also, we love getting in spirited, late-night arguments.

Friends from @beislakish , @rmlpgh , @talmudmagic , etc. will be facilitating text studies, but please also feel free to bring your own zines, articles, source sheets, etc. for solo or group study. If you want, you can bring a dairy (yes, it’s a Shavuot thing) or vegan snack to share.

Anyone respectful of the (always queer, anti-zionist, etc.) space’s intentions is welcome. Come anytime, leave anytime. Loose schedule TBA.

Accessibility: Bantha is wheelchair accessible. Because we’ll be indoors, we ask that you wear a high-quality (N95, KN95, or KF94) mask when not eating or drinking tea. If you’re sick, are testing positive for COVID, and/or have had close contact (ex. a a housemate) with COVID, please sit this one out. We’d love to see you next time!

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💭🍇❤️‍🔥 There's only a few more days to register for Beis Lakish's second ever in-person class! Register for Revolutionary Imagination and Olam HaBa at tinyurl.com/bl-may2026 💭🍇❤️‍🔥 (If you want to come but don't know your alef-bet, please DM me so we can get you prepped!) Image ID: Text in front of a faded background of an illuminated hebrew manuscript with grape details reads: "Spiraling about how much worse it seems like things are going to get? Come to learn and dream with past and present sages about how good they could become! Join Beis Lakish (Tzvi & Olivia) in a four-week whole-body Talmud deep dive as we make way for the World to Come. Sundays May 3rd-24th at 1 to 5pm. Free! All you need is your alef-bet!"

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