Joy Ladin’s talk is being co-sponsored by Kolot Mayim Reform Temple and the Chair in Transgender Studies at the University of Victoria. She serves as an emeritus member of the Board of Keshet, an organization devoted to full inclusion of LGTBQ Jews in the Jewish world.
A new book of poems in the voice of the Shekhinah, the feminine aspect of the Divine, Shekhinah Speaks, is forthcoming in early 2022. Her most recent book, The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective, was a Lambda Literary Award and Triangle Award finalist. in American Literature from Princeton University, and long held the Gottesman Chair in English at Yeshiva University. It details her transition within an Orthodox university and eloquently weaves together Jewish and transgender themes. Her memoir, Through the Door of Life, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. A celebrated poet, literary scholar, and public speaker, Joy has empowered many with her personal journey of integrity and resilience. Since coming out as transgender in 2008, Joy has become an internationally recognized speaker on transgender issues. She will analyze and reinterpret key texts from a trans perspective–that is, in light of experiences of not fitting into identity-defining roles and categories, experiences of feeling estranged that are particularly acute for transgender and nonbinary people but common to everyone and, the Torah tells us, to God. In this talk, Joy will share her personal journey and offer her insights and unique reading of gender identity in the Hebrew Torah. As the first openly transgender professor at an Orthodox Jewish institution, Joy knows firsthand how complex it can be for institutions and communities to respond to and embrace those who they see as different. Joy Ladin (she/her) will be the featured speaker in Kolot Mayim Reform Temple’s Building Bridges: Celebrating Diversity in Jewish Life speaker series on Sunday, February 6 th 2022 at 11 AM PT on Zoom, co-sponsored by the Chair in Transgender Studies at the University of Victoria.
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