S.I. Rosenbaum

Jul 29, 2024 | slate.com | S.I. Rosenbaum |Abraham Josephine Riesman

Politics As Kamala Harris rose to national prominence over the years, lawyer and lifelong LGBT advocate Shannon Minter felt a growing sense of alarm. Not about Harris’ success—but about what was being said about her by Minter’s fellow transgender activists and writers. “Harris’s work has contributed to some of the most violent conditions faced by trans people,” wrote ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio in 2019, during Harris’ presidential primary run.

Oct 17, 2023 | slate.com | Abraham Josephine Riesman |S.I. Rosenbaum

Politics When Solomon Perel died this past February in Jerusalem, he did not die alone. With him went the alter ego he’d created more than half a century before, when as a Jewish teenager he survived the Holocaust by hiding in plain sight as “Jupp,” a member of the Hitler Youth.