lineage
ritual
divination
apothecary
emma//essra rutenberg (they//them) is an archivist, astrologer, tarot reader, archaeologist, musician, artist, & herbalist grown from, tending, and based in lënapehòkink // philly. always learning from animism, diasporism, abolition, & antifascism, they weave ancestral ritual and mythological meaning-making from each of their lineages into larger tapestries that explore time as a spiral, the textures of hope & despair, and the tectonics of land, grief, death, & memory.
an apprentice of portals and lifelong student of water, emma draws from the antizionist jewish tradition & the intuitive nature of re//membrance. inspired by a concept by umar faruq abdullah, they describe their Jewishness as a river that takes on the colors and textures of the bedrock it flows through, acting as the framework and guide through which the traditions, deities, rituals, and lands of their lineages flow: [yiddishland, the balkans, éire, alba, cymru, elsàss, ibēr.] as a white, queer, nonbinary, and newly disabled person, they venerate the land and trees; the waters of prophecy; long, tectonic time; the moon as a guide; the divine mystery in all that is unknown.
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as they braid their lineages together, they hold intimate experiences with— and hope to support people navigating— death, grief, and loss // textures of radical change & transformation (broken//openness) // landscapes of surviving abuse // the divinity in mystery and memory. they encourage weaving ancestral practices as the necessary work of unlearning yt supremacy, and believe there is no place for any spiritual practitioners who are devoid of political analysis or frameworks of global liberation— the cosmologies of diasporism, solidarity, specificity, & anticolonial antifascism are necessary for any meaningful lineage work or connection.
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