samer - ‎سامر

had a young frum person express shock to me last night that i am OTD and not disrespectful or cruel at a frum shabbos table. i love breaking peoples misconceptions about OTDers.

short film concept cooking about shabbos dinner at a shliach's home with all of their grown children.

respecting hashem's he/him pronouns

For your sake and mine, I cut out most of the tangents I wanted to go on and posted this as the introduction to maybe an intermarriage series vidze.substack.com/p/lets-talk-ab…

12x4 chitas 10x3 hisboidedus mivtzoim until failure

next post coming out is going to be about how tzimtzum reflects pregnancy and vice versa

12 subscribers to my substack in under 24 hours is crazy 🥰

i need a millennial lubavitcher to answer this question

in case links are being repressed, I did in fact write a deeply gay and deeply OTD essay on nivul peh and respectability politics where i did in fact cite several rabbinical sources and lesbian feminist scholars. if you want to read it, scroll down.

here is the piece on respectability politics and nivul peh that absolutely nobody asked for and yet, i am still delivering: samercohen.substack.com/p/holy-filth

man i miss VHS tapes. i miss sitting in front of my little portable VHS tv and rewinding the movie and feeling the static on the screen. little kids do not understand the cinema experience of this and it’s depressing.

having many thoughts on how jewish masculinity influences the jewish butch, so gonna do some reading before i put those on paper.

hanging out with my OTD bestie at a gay bar motzei shabbos what are you guys up to

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doing a lot of thinking about the power of reclaiming language/ words and nivul peh. gonna write about it i think.