Jackie Bruckman

Queer Progressive Zionist

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May 19, 2025, 5:28 AM

Too Jewish for Pride?

May 2025, day 591 of the war. We all think that all we ever want, all of us, we all must want to be free. The heartbreak is realizing that this isn't true. But I do believe that all of...

Sep 30, 2024, 10:41 AM

Progressive Purity Test

Tel Aviv monument to LGBTQ victims of the Holocaust, reads: 'In memory of those persecuted by the Nazi regime for their sexual orientation and gender identity.'

Back in June of this year, a video emerged of a guy in New York City shouting on a packed subway car, “Repeat after me! Raise your hands if you’re a Zionist! This is your chance to get out!”...

Apr 22, 2024, 12:43 AM

Queer Spaces Are Not Safe

San Francisco’s Dolores Park used to be a Jewish cemetery. The iconic city park is where over a hundred years ago, the government dug up 8,000 Jewish bodies and moved them south of the city for reburial. If you...

Mar 18, 2024, 12:42 AM

Losing Liberal Friends

Et tu, Brute? Day 163 since October 7th. Rape deniers, rape apologists, and Jew haters are everywhere, on campuses, on TV, on social media, in newspapers, in online feminist journals, marching in major city streets, attacking Jewish owned businesses and blaming...

Feb 20, 2024, 12:07 AM

Never Again Is Now

I protested Trump’s Muslim ban in 2017. I chanted and stood my ground in front of riot cops at SFO demanding a flight of weary travelers be allowed to disembark their plane. I drove 45 minutes from my house...

Feb 10, 2024, 9:55 PM

Follow the Money

On February 2nd, 2024 in Washington DC, protestors blocked streets around the Holocaust Memorial Museum. The protestors went for maximum impact; disrupt the status quo at a Jewish location. What’s next? A Sit-In at Auschwitz? These are not true...

Jan 8, 2024, 2:40 AM

We Will Dance Again

One minute you are lost in the music moving and dancing with a group of like minded people who are smiling and sharing the same experience. You are blissed out and probably a little high on some kind of...

Dec 30, 2023, 5:41 PM

Mass Rape Is Not An Act of Resistance

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I am a Progressive. I am Queer. I am a Zionist. I am a unicorn in most liberal circles because of my gender presentation and my politics, but I am used to walking my own path. I love Israel,...

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About Me

Jackie (Jack) Bruckman is a Trans masculine Queer Writer and Singer/Songwriter. Performing under the name Jackie Strano, they/she are the lead singer and co-founder of the all Trans band, Tans-Mission, based on Vancouver Island, BC. They are also the Lead singer of SF 90's band, The Hail Marys, heard on the soundtrack of Bound, by The Wachowskis. A longtime Progressive, Sex Positive Feminist, and LGBTQ Activist, Jack is also the grandchild of Holocaust survivors and had the honor of visiting Israel in 2017 as a Mission Leader with A Wider Bridge.

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