LF INFOGRAPHICS

These 3 infographics attempt to capture 7 years of LF theory that we co-created in relationship with our queer diasporic Jewish community and the land we tended. In sunsetting, we created this infographics page as a way to make our learnings more widely available.

We encourage you to download these tools, share them in workshops, explore them via solo learning, or use them as guideposts in your own work. Feel free to build on these ideas or change our words to support the nuanced intersections of your own work and identities. The only thing we ask is that you credit LF as the source of these infographics and as part of your lineage of learning! 

Deep gratitude to our graphic designer and former co-director Sol Weiss for pairing beautiful visuals with these complex ideas. 

Click below to download all 3 infographics in color and in black and white. You can also download the graphics individually by clicking on each image.

LINKE FLIGL VISION MAP

 
Image description: A banner at the top of the page reads “Linke Fligl Vision Map”; there are four interlocking circles inside of a larger circle and all have writing inside of them. Top left circle reads: “land based community and relational food cul

LF Vision Map Infographic - Color

LF Vision Map Infographic - B&W

 

These interlocking rings have held the fiery vision at the center of LF’s work since our earliest days. The words captured in this vision map have continually evolved, reflecting the nuanced and bold dreams of a project that attempted to create at the intersections of land, tradition, healing, justice through a queer lens. This vision became the guiding light of LF cultural programming and major organizational decisions. We share this map in the hope that it can serve as a creative example and inspiration to all those who dream of a different world. 

  • A banner at the top of the page reads “Linke Fligl Vision Map”; there are four interlocking circles inside of a larger circle and all have writing inside of them. Top left circle reads: “land based community and relational food culture”. Top right circle reads: “ vibrant and accessible diasporic Jewish tradition(s)”. Bottom right circle reads: “justice and collective liberation for all peoples”. Bottom left circle reads: “individual, collective and ancestral healing”. The outside circle reads: “queer leadership, family and frameworks”.

LINKE FLIGL LAND STORIES

 
A banner at the top of the page reads “Linke Fligl Land Stories: an exploration of diasporism that invites us into more accountable land relationship.”  There are three intersecting circles with writing inside and above each one. The top circle reads

Land Stories Infographic

A banner at the top of the page reads “Linke Fligl Land Stories: an exploration of diasporism that invites us into more accountable land relationship.”  There are three intersecting circles with writing inside and above each one. The top circle reads

Land Stories Worksheet

 

Since 2017, LF has led numerous workshops on diasporism and striving for accountable land relationship. These workshops eventually evolved into the theory captured in the diagram above. The diagram offers up a structure for re/claiming our non-linear, multifaceted, fragmented relationships to land through storytelling. 

Native folks, who keep the sacred stories of turtle island, teach us that story is one way to come into the right relationship with place.  Judaism likewise offers storytelling as a core de-assimilation practice, encouraging us to read and revere the Torah as a sacred scroll of stories, as well as recite our mythic tale of journeying from exile to liberation deep into the night each Pesach.

Instructions: We hope you will use this diagram to tell your land stories in chevruta, in community, to your ancestors, or just for yourself. The black and white version is formatted as a worksheet, allowing you to fill in the circles with your writing and imagery as you contemplate your own answers to these big questions.  After sitting with this worksheet, what narratives emerge? What stories do you feel called to speak aloud? Who do you want to share them with?

  • A banner at the top of the page reads “Linke Fligl Land Stories: an exploration of diasporism that invites us into more accountable land relationship.” There are three intersecting circles with writing inside and above each one. The top circle reads: “Lands You Call Home: What is your journey of finding home? What is your relationship to the histories, ecologies and colonial legacies of where you are now?”; The bottom left circle reads: “Lands Your People Came From: What are your ancestral stories of home and displacement? What is your relationship to these diasporic journeys, known and unknown?”; The bottom right circle reads: “Land of Israel/Palestine: What is your relationship to the sacred, historical & imagined space of Eretz Yisrael, the nation state of Israel, and the occupation of Palestine?” There is a second version of this diagram that is a worksheet. The three circles are empty, and the same questions are listed outside the circles, allowing the viewer to fill in their own answers inside of the empty space.

LINKE FLIGL CORE PRACTICES

 

LF Core Practices Infographic - Color

LF Core Practices Infographic - B&W

 

Above are eight practices developed and used on the land at Linke Fligl for living into a liberatory, land based, queer Jewish culture rooted in our values. We wove these embodied practices into our gatherings to create a rich cultural fabric that could hold our collective joy, grief, de-assimilation and endless questioning. LF also gives thanks to the Center for Whole Communities who inspired us to develop our own core practices as an organization. 

  • Rectangle banner at the top of the page reads, “LF’s Core Practices". 8 circles are dispersed across the page and interconnected with dashes. The circles read: “loving observation, prayer, cultivation, dreaming, rest, song, redistribution & play.”