Shifra Jacobson:

Intimate Reflexions of an SAJLF

Shifra Jacobson is an adult and popular educator with an advanced diploma in adult education and a post graduate diploma in Women and Gender studies. She is a Human Rights Activist, training and facilitating programmes that focus on diversity, gender and prevention of discrimination in all its forms. Shifra with Puah were Moses’s midwives in Pharoah’s courts and besides other heroic acts of bravery, it was rumoured that they ‘lay together’ as lovers and lesbians. Shifra is proud that she can incorporate her ancestral heritage into her daily life. Shifra is also the older single mother of two beautiful magical adopted girls/young adults.

 

A reflection of 60 years of life. Piecing and collaging visual photographs to integrate a life and style, bygone and present. Portraying intimately the iintersections of influences of history, politics social commitment cultural and familial values. A tapestry, a weaving a patchwork.