Sara Gluck

When it comes to the battle of the sexes, everyone has an opinion. Are women funnier? Are all men clueless? Why argue about silly things like intelligence and wit when we can argue about more important things, like which gender can roll better blunts? Because let’s face it, that’s true supremacy. Women are better at rolling than men. Look, I don’t make the rules, but I have empirical evidence that women are the fairer gender when it comes to rolling a green burrito.

I was raised to believe that Judaism and queer­ness were mutu­al­ly exclu­sive, and that if I were to iden­ti­fy any­where along the LGBTQIA+ spec­trum, I would in effect be denounc­ing my sta­tus as a ​“real Jew.” As I labored to thread these two aspects of my iden­ti­ty togeth­er, I fought inter­nal­ized shame and self-denial. My debut mem­oir, Kiss­ing Girls on Shab­bat, is a recla­ma­tion of myself and a cel­e­bra­tion of queer Jew­ish pride and joy.

Source: hocus-focus/istockphoto I have sat across from the most resilient people as they have, often with great trepidation, told me that they just don’t want to live anymore. They would often speak through the quaver in their voices and avoid looking up at me because they were so afraid that I would judge them. I might have, in the before. Before my own sister jumped eighteen stories and ended her internal suffering on the concrete.