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Andy Izenson

…is a Spinozan pantheist weirdo Jew, a time traveling transsexual, and an attorney, law professor, and facilitator of transformative justice processes with fifteen years of experience in protest support and radical lawyering with the National Lawyers Guild. Andy is on the board of their renewal synagogue and they live on a tranarchist intentional community on Lenape land in the Hudson Valley of New York. Andy recently founded the teach-in series “The World That Is Coming: A Do’ikayt Teach-in” to unearth and explore a Jewish mystical anarchism, and have taught on the topic at Boston University’s Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs, the Worker’s Circle, and been published on it in the Brill Journal of Religion and the Arts and the Sage Journal for Critical Research on Religion. Andy’s work explores the interplay between mystical diasporism, gender antinomianism, sadomasochism, and ancestor veneration with an eye towards the triumph of the forces of faggotry over the state.