Page 11 - Issue 29

Teaching Feminism

through D & D

By Lonny Moses, Kibbutz Keshet, Petach Tikva

Three weeks ago at the age of 33 and for the first
time I played Dungeons & Dragons. As a kid I had
enjoyed playing Magic the Gathering but I drew
the line at role-playing. I was fat and nerdy and I
liked classical music and I was Jewish. I was
already near the bottom of the social ladder and I
didn't want to step off of it entirely.

But over the past year or two I've heard about
some of my old friends from machaneh playing in
a regular group. As they spoke about it more and
more I became jealous of the fun they were
having, knowing that I had no chance to join in
because I lived a continent away.

And then suddenly my racezet said in a tzevet
meeting, "Hey by the way, someone's coming
tomorrow to run Dungeons and Dragons. Who
wants it for their chanichimot?" And my hand
immediately went up. Honestly I had no idea what
I was signing up for and I had no clue if the kids
would be interested at all or if they would look at
it the same way I did when I was their age. I also
had no idea who this guy was, why he was coming