I’m Eliana Rubin: a queer feminist, anti-imperialist organizer, and practitioner of politicized somatics.

I grew up in a deeply rooted, culturally Jewish community in the Bay Area on Ohlone land. Connecting with my own legacies of resistance fortified me in my commitment to fight all forms of oppression, including both Zionism and antisemitism. For over 12 years, I’ve worked to support culture change in movement spaces through the use of embodied practice and facilitation. In 2015 I began my training in the lineages of generative somatics as a practitioner and teacher. I have organized with the International Anti-Zionist Network since 2014. I received my Graduate Degree in Embodiment Studies from Goddard College in 2020, writing a thesis based on my research in the intersections of somatic methodologies, polyvagal theory, Jewish inter-generational trauma, and internationalist anti-imperialist politics. I am now rooted in Durham, North Carolina on Occoneechi, Saponi, & Eno land where I helped to found Makom, a queer and trans led Jewish anti-Zionist congregation.

In 2024, I published my first book with PM Press, Taking the State Out of the Body: A Guide to Embodied Resistance to Zionism.