{"id":61208,"date":"2021-08-12T00:50:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T00:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61208"},"modified":"2021-08-12T00:50:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T00:50:44","slug":"how-i-learned-to-love-myself-as-a-black-jew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61208","title":{"rendered":"How I Learned to Love Myself as a Black Jew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heyalma.com\/how-i-learned-to-love-myself-as-a-black-jew\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>How I Learned to Love Myself as a Black Jew<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heyalma.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alma.<\/a><br \/>\n2020-06-16<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/viva_lasdavis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Aviva Davis<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Oakland, California<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heyalma.com\/how-i-learned-to-love-myself-as-a-black-jew\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heyalma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Self-Love-as-a-Black-Jew.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>While I am so proud to be a queer Jewish woman of color, it has taken an excruciating amount of work to reach this point.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As a child, I always knew I was Black, but I didn\u2019t know what that meant for me as an individual. I certainly didn\u2019t know how my Blackness intersected with my other identities, including my Jewishness. I didn\u2019t even realize, when one of my friends asked me how I could believe in God but not Jesus, that my religion and my race were informing her question.<\/p>\n<p>Cut to almost 10 years later, and I\u2019m coming out of the closet. I am Black, I am Jewish, I am queer, and on top of all that, I\u2019m a woman, too. Someone once said I decided to play the game of life on \u201cExpert Mode.\u201d I couldn\u2019t help but laugh at such an accurate analogy, because although I am so proud to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heyalma.com\/a-queer-black-jewish-college-students-plea-to-the-jewish-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">queer Jewish woman of color<\/a>, it has taken an excruciating amount of work to reach this point and fully love myself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heyalma.com\/how-i-learned-to-love-myself-as-a-black-jew\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I am so proud to be a queer Jewish woman of color, it has taken an excruciating amount of work to reach this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,666,3601,8,820,20],"tags":[31707,31706],"class_list":["post-61208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-gaylesbian","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-alma-2","tag-aviva-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61210,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61208\/revisions\/61210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}