goodbye to Naomi

[sabotabby]

Just received word that an old friend and comrade has died. We don't have details yet; I heard from a mutual friend just now. I haven't seen her in a few years, with all the various things that consumed my life before covid, but we were quite close back in the day, and she was someone I looked up to a great deal. I knew her from Jewish Women's Committee to End the Occupation, but she was involved everywhere, with community organizing in Regent Park, to feminist struggles, to disability rights.

She was a ferocious activist, writer, documentary producer, and badass educator who devoted her life to justice around the world. She had the kind of fierce energy that just doesn't come along every day.

As I said to the friend who told me about her death, may her memory not just be a blessing but a reason to renew our rebellion.

Comments

[gingicat]

Amen.

[sabotabby]

I'm sitting in the second of two endless Zoom meetings just feeling devastated and missing my community really hard.

[dewline]

I'm sorry.

[sabotabby]

Thanks.

[lynnenne]

I’m sorry for your loss. :(

[sabotabby]

Thanks.

[symbioid]

Rest In Power

[sabotabby]

Thanks.

[moon_custafer]

Sympathy

[sabotabby]

Much appreciated.

[frandroid]

I did not know her personally but I remember her from the vigil and other occasions. I am very sorry for your loss.

[sabotabby]

You'd have liked her. She was a badass.

[rdi]

I'm sorry for your loss. May she rest in power. ✊🏼

[sabotabby]

Thanks.

[flamingsword]

I grieve with you.

[contrarywise]

She sounds like an amazing woman. I'm sorry for your, and your community's, loss.

[sabotabby]

That she was. Thanks.

Condolences

[ed_rex]

I doubt I knew her, Sabs, but with others, I'm sorry for your loss, made worse by the bloody times in which we're living.

Re: Condolences

[sabotabby]

I don't think you ever met her, but she was damn cool.

Not being able to collectively mourn in person is also a thing. A lot of folks would like to attend the shiva or hold some kind of celebration of life, but we can't under the circumstances.