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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

It is this fucking simple. Here are four fully enclosed toilet stalls in a bathroom for all genders. If this can be done at @ UM school if Ed, it can be done everywhere. #transwhilepeeing #transwhilepooping #allgenderbathrooms

Photograph of Bathroom with 3 fully enclosed stalls, plus a store at the end for PWD. At the UM school of education.

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

The things we do to keep our own spirits up, while piously pretending its "for the sake of the children" Video: grownup and two little ones doing silly dancing on living room floor.

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Mimesis with 2 y o and stuffed animals. 4 y o does their own thing.

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Thanks @monikaamsler.bsky.social for this iconic pic of the wonderful panel in which #SarahIlesJohnston, #JeremyMcInerney, #KarenBritt, #RaananBoustan, #BlakeLeyerle, and #Denisa Hradilová, engaged my book in dialogue with their own work on art, hybrids, monsters, animals, and menageries! 1/x

In front of powerpoint project of drawing of image of demon from
Incantation bowl, a white besuited person with short brown hair speaks into a mic.

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Did a tiny hike with these lovely people before listening to a fantastic summary of law and policy in today's ever shifting world.

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

ADERABA first episode just dropped! Have Trans People Always Existed - What Would the Rabbis Say? Subscribe eg here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... Clip below has split screen with Gilah on top, me on bottom, talking about Adam's gender.

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

And it ain't just women ;-) see BT Nedarim 20a-b describes how Rabbi Yohanan Ben Dahaby refrain from looking at his own spouse for fear that he will fantasize about ANOTHER woman, thereby tainting progeny with adultery!

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Comic on Talmud bavli hagigah 12a-b. It is taught, Rabbi Yose says: Woe to creatures, who see and don't know what they see, who stand, and don't know on what they stand. On what does the earth stand On pillars... on water... on mountains... upon wind... upon a storm, hanging on the Holy One's arm.

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Finishing up comic for Mike Chin's recent book on LIFE. Image of person with large mustache declaring 10 entities (or words) were created on 1st day: heaven, earth, tohu bohu light dark wind & water, unit of day, unit of night

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Talmud Bavli Hagigah 12a-b The quasi forbidden, demi secret mysteries of Creation unraveled but also obscured in the Babylonian Talmud. #Comics #wip #comix #esoterica #forbidden #secret Image description in next skeet.

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

FNAR commenced studying Chumish Bereshis (Genesis, hebrew Pentateuch). E and T duly consumed lettered honey. Image description in next skeet. #indoctrination #hebrewBible #genesis #transparenting

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Includes not just cup of Miriam and cup of Elijah, but Bowl of Dinah, our canine matriarch of blessed memory, who passed away a week today. Also

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Made our pack Haggadah this year. A patchwork of other haggadot, rituals from various people and places, heavily adapted, abbreviated (b/c 5 kids 1-5), & supplemented by me. Art mine and some by kiddos. Front cover also the album cover for my sibs Un Cavretico (ladino had gadya) #DaliMuruPolyphonic

Front cover of my Haggadah. Two images of bird headed human like beings. One taller looks down at the smaller, holding hands. The smaller one about a third in height gazes up. Melancholy exchange. Figured drawn in black ink and white page inside outlines. Dark red background - abstract swirls and shapes, some orange, curtain fabrics like. Smaller sketches in lighter ink surround. plants. A kneeling figure. Original is Ink and paint on paper.

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The true friend/uncle wears a climbing structure in order to shlep it home for the little ones, accompanied by the other uncle and cousin dog. @seanjohnson.bsky.social

We see a person in the full ground from behind, they run into the background with the brown and white dog, further into the photo we see a person effectively wearing a climbing structure in order to carry it down the street

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Sign up. www.judaismunbound.com/2025-courses... Financial aid: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please spread the word / repost! 3/

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

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! 1/

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.

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

And now we return to our regular programming! HAPPY TRANS DAY OF INVISIBILITY!!!

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Update your webpage! Image shows faculty webpage: with my name and DEI DEI DEI following my pronouns (they/them). To the left of my faculty pic -my painting of deerhuman hybrid- is a bio which begins with: As the federal government seeks to quash universities, we cannot pursue business as usual.

Image shows faculty webpage: with my name and DEI DEI DEI following my pronouns (they/them).
To the left of my faculty pic -my painting of deerhuman hybrid- is a bio which begins with:
As the federal government seeks to quash universities, we cannot pursue business as usual.

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Here's the new opening to my bio: As the federal government seeks to restrict speech, free inquiry, and association, in a bid to quash universities, and as university leadership rush to comply, we cannot pursue business as usual. This includes the genre of the academic bio. Image of bio with same

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Umich wants to "align" units' "web presence" to comply with "federal orders and guidance." Let's make it harder for them!

Faculty bio page with DEI added after pronouns and an email address that reads DEI@Do Not Cancel DEI dot resist.

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Wait this is better. And gonna rewrite my bio too 👹

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

as the powers that be at UMich trash DEI and pursue "alignment" and "compliance with federal orders and guidance." Including units' "web presence," I encouraged those of you who can to add DEI DEI DEI to your bios or pronouns!

My faculty bio page with title and pronouns followed by DEI3 times in caps

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Making some corrections of Umich slogans. How's the Michigan "Difference" as "Followers and Worst.*" Oh and let's not forget the beloved, "Seig, Heil!*" * Previously "Leaders and Best" and "Hail to the Victors!"

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

"People have rights in the United States, regardless of immigration status. If you or someone you know is being coerced or forced into work or prostitution, please call for help: &@!)($@." Someone has updated this poster about how people have rights in the US regardless of immigration status.

Poster saying: "People have rights in the United States, regardless of immigration status. If you or someone you know is being coerced or forced into work or prostitution, please call for help: &1 or Four." Someone has edited out the 911 number and added "HHS won't help'

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Inspo? Evil eye mosaic (Hatay Arkeoloji Müzesi, Antioch). Lotus, detail, relief Treasure Room, Persepolis , 6th-5th century BCE. Theseus & Minotaur, Pompei. 1st-3rd cent. CE. Naples. Rembrandt, A Woman Bathing.

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I love the vibrancy of Jadé Fadojutimi that are rightly compared to Howard Hodgkin for their brilliant color and gesture

The Generosity of Trauma. Painting in oil and pigment stick on canvas. Bright gestural abstract marks

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Art that I draw upon in my own practice. Dura Europos synagogue frescos for making my comics

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Some gratuitous trans joy for your Friday afternoon/ Shabbat pleasure!

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

everything under control here! Moishy Tzipporah on dashboard, Tuviyah asleep in back.

View from driver: steering wheel and cat with brown and white fur crouching on dashboard

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This is my friend Yael whom I spent a week with today goodbye, before she died last month at my age (51yo). Maybe earliest (+only) childhood friend with whom I was still close. We grew up in NW London round the corner from each other. Yael posed for this portrait in #Hasmo high school around 1990.

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I'm mostly eager to learn more about the cool objects found inside and the exact context of their find locations!

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

San Francisco with Mike Chin and (some of) Pack

Two adults in park. One has child on their shoulders. Smiles all round

Three koi fish I. San Francisco Japanese gardens

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

A respite from anger and sadness: Pack and friend on carousel yesterday. Joy and delight. I document from the side because of my Endolymphatic hydrops.

Toddler and grown up on bench on carousel

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

This is doing actual damage half my post are being mislabeled. All the ones doing anti-transphobia work.

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Hear wisdom/ herd cats/raise trans kids!

Grey car looks at camera one eye half closed

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Shabbat menuhah / a restful shabbes to all!

Light brown curly haired 3 year old (older sibling) covered by blanket, sleeps in stroller

Light brown curly haired 1.5 year old (younger sibling) covered by blanket, sleeps in stroller

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

How we look at the ancient Jewish and other pasts tells us much about how we MAKE our PRESENT. Ancient demons and monsters aren't just fun and cool (they're also that)! How they land in the present day and who they resonate for is very revealing.

Yomtov Hadassah my cat sits in my bookshelf.

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Because YES the racist visual regime that praises the convention called "realism" is the same forensic gaze that presumes to judge bodies and assign their gender in binary ways. Racism and cisnormative ways of looking & classifying "non-normative" bodies.

Migraine while posting linking to Dayna R's generous alt text https://www.lifeisasacredtext.com/thisjan2025/

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The "crude" vs "realist" false binary still prevails in contemporary art historical scholarship on antiquity albeit sometimes couched in other language. See my book on how it's used to devalue / misgender images of Lilith and other demons in Babylonian incantation bowls.

My photo of Aramaic incantation with image of nonbinary demon / Lilith on it. More details in my book When a Humam Gives Birth to a Raven

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

They don't like "gender" affirming care? How's LIFE affirming care!

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Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Aww thank you 💜 here it is, it's open access: www.luminosoa.org/site/books/m...

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