# Event Details - **Event Name**: Dr. Wendy Elisheva Somerson (Wes) with Ijeoma Oluo [New date!] - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 01 Jul, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 01 Jul, 2025 at 08:30 pm - **Event Description**: "...This may well be the missing piece for breaking the pattern of violence undergirding Israeli apartheid and occupation.” —Naomi KleinAbout this EventThird Place Books welcomes healer, organizer, and author Wendy Elisheva Somerson (Wes) for a conversation about their new book, . This tool-based guide introduces strategies for healing historical grief and trauma with a focus on liberation. Wes is joined in conversation by writer and racial justice advocate Ijeoma Oluo.This event is free and open to the public. For important updates, RSVP is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book!PLEASE NOTE: This event was previously scheduled for June 10th, but was rescheduled due to a neighborhood-wide power outage. If you RSVP'd for our June 10th event, we recommend that you RSVP again to ensure you receive important updates. Please send us your questions at events [at] thirdplacebooks [dot] com. Our thanks to Wes and Ijeoma for working with us to find a new date!Having trouble registering? See Eventbrite's troubleshooting FAQ here.Tickets:This event is free to attend. Registration is required in advance.About An Anti-Zionist Path to Embodied Jewish Healing. . .Unapologetically anti-Zionist and firmly rooted in Jewish spiritual values—a liberatory model for Jewish healing.Body-based tools and faith-based practices for processing trauma, reclaiming our agency, and building a world where "never again" means "never again for anyone."Dr. Wendy Elisheva Somerson, PhD, shows how Jewish history lives in Jewish bodies—and how antisemitism and oppression disrupt our access to safety, dignity, and belonging. This unmetabolized trauma can lock us into a survival state that brings historical grief into the present moment…and keep us from exploring critical questions that help us tend our legacies and live into a better world.How does ancestral grief live on in our bodies and keep us from feeling safe—and how is that fear enacted on other peoples? How do we reconcile a history of persecution with the state power of Israel today?Each chapter invites us back into the body, exploring healing as a spiritual and political reclamation. With skills-based wisdom for trauma, safety, spiritually grounded intentions, and resourcing ourselves for difficult conversations, this book also helps readers understand:Trauma and healing through our bodiesJewish longing, belonging, legacies of assimilationHealing shame—of not being Jewish enough, of being too much, and of being complicitEmbodied experiences of Jewish resilience, ritual, and griefRooted in justice, care, and spiritual depth, this book asks us to live into a Judaism beyond Zionism. It invites us to heal toward liberation—to reclaim Jewish faith and release Jewish identity from the colonial project of Israel in power, skill, and community.Wendy Elisheva Somerson (Wes) is a queer non-binary, disabled, cat-loving Ashkenazi Jewish somatic healer, writer, activist, and visual artist residing on Duwamish and Coast Salish land. One of the founders of the Seattle chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, they have been active in Palestinian solidarity work for more than two decades. As a politicized healer, Wes works at the intersection of personal and collective healing with individuals, groups, and organizations. They are the creator and facilitator of Ruach, an ongoing anti-Zionist, body-based Jewish healing group.Ijeoma Oluo is a Seattle-based writer, speaker, and internet yeller. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling first book, So You Want To Talk About Race, Mediocre, and Be a Revolution. Her work on race and gender has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and NBC News; and she has been featured on The Daily Show and NPR’s All Things Considered. Named on the TIME 100 Next list and The Root 100, she’s been awarded the Harvard Humanist of the Year Award, the American Humanist Association’s Feminist Humanist Award, Gender Justice League’s Media Justice Award, and the Equal Opportunity Institute’s Aubrey Davis Visionary Leadership Award.About Third Place BooksFounded in 1998 in Lake Forest Park, Washington, Third Place Books is dedicated to the creation of a community around books and the ideas inside them. With locations in Lake Forest Park and Seattle's Ravenna and Seward Park neighborhoods, Third Place Books is proud to serve the entire Seattle metro area. 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