Gabi Kirk’s Writing

  • On Mental Health Solidarity with Gaza

    Despite the fact that I’m not usually one for walk-a-thon type things, this issue felt different. Disability justice will change what brains are valued in this world, and how we respond to trauma as communities, and how to create a… Continue reading

  • Shelter Them Beneath Thy Wings

    By Gabi KirkAnd then these Jews, my people, left their homes in the night. And went through fields and over hills, from Ma’ale Ephraim to Duma. And they took gasoline and bottles and lighters and spray paint. And they destroyed… Continue reading

  • Abandoning the Idolatry of Nonviolence

    Gabi Kirk takes us through her journey into the realization that while tremendously important, nonviolence should not become the fetish of community organizing.  Continue reading

  • Security Means Solidarity not Supremacy

    By Gabi KirkFor Jews to stand in solidarity with Palestinians and Black people in America, we must take a hard look at our complicity in the state security systems which uphold racist ideologies. Continue reading

  • Colonizing the Cities and Gentrifying the Desert

    By Gabi KirkLast week marked turning points in three important cases which, at first glance, seem to be wholly unrelated. Yet all three have crucial repercussions on future struggles resisting displacement, in Israel-Palestine and in the U.S., and on how… Continue reading