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Leora Fridman Leora Fridman is a writer whose work is concerned with issues of identity, care, dis/ability, and embodiment. She is author of Static Palace, a collection of essays about chronic illness, art and politics, Bound Up: On Kink, Power & Belonging,just out this month, and other books of prose, poetry and translation. She is currently faculty at the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School and Director of the New Jewish Culture Fellowship.       A provocative look at historical trauma as bound, incarnated, and processed through intimate and sexual expression. In an autotheoretical journey through bondage, domination, and intimacy, Leora Fridman uncovers how Jewish historical trauma can be challenged and explored in embodied relations. Drawing on her experiences as an American Jew in Germany, Fridman delves into BDSM practices and experimental communities from Oakland to Berlin. This work weaves personal encounters with critical analysis founded in feminist theory, queer literature,