{"id":455,"date":"2019-04-25T00:13:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T00:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/westernmassqtwriters\/?p=455"},"modified":"2019-04-25T00:13:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T00:13:18","slug":"joy-ladin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/westernmassqtwriters\/joy-ladin\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy Ladin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joy Ladin. Photo by Joan Roth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Torah doesn’t tell us what being created in the image of God means, or explain how human beings are similar to the invisible, disembodied, time- and space-transcending Creator of the Universe. That, to me, is the point of reading God and the Torah from a transgender perspective: to better understand the kinship between humanity and the inhuman, bodiless God in whose image we are created, a God who does not fit any of the categories through which human beings define ourselves and one another.”<\/strong><\/h4>\n

– Joy Ladin in\u00a0The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective <\/a><\/p>\n

Biography<\/span><\/h5>\n

Joy Ladin is from Rochester, NY and was born in 1961. She is a poet, scholar, essayist, and the David and Ruth Gottesman Chair in English at Stern College for Women at Yeshiva University.\u00a0She is also a professor of English at Yeshiva University.\u00a0[1]<\/a>\u00a0Dr. Joy Ladin received her PhD at Princeton, MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and BA from Sarah Lawrence College.[2]<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2007, Dr. Ladin became the first\u00a0the first openly transgender employee of Yeshiva University, which is an Orthodox Jewish institution.[3]<\/a>\u00a0She is the author of eleven books and nine books of poetry.\u00a0[4]<\/a>\u00a0In 2013, her memoir\u00a0Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders<\/em>\u00a0was published. The memoir reflects on her time coming out as a trans woman after receiving tenure at Yeshiva University. It also touches on the impact her transition had on family located in Shutesbury, MA.<\/p>\n

Among various honors and awards, Dr. Ladin has been the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a finalist for the\u00a0Lambda Literary Award, and a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award.\u00a0[5]<\/a><\/p>\n

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Selected\u00a0Bibliography<\/span><\/h5>\n

Trans theology:<\/p>\n

Shipwrecked with God<\/a><\/p>\n

Gender Inside and Outside the Camp<\/a><\/p>\n

Torah in Transition<\/a><\/p>\n

Poems:<\/p>\n

Survival Guide<\/a><\/p>\n

A Modest Proposal<\/a><\/p>\n

Flourishing<\/a><\/p>\n

Sickness and Health<\/a><\/p>\n

Letter to My Body<\/a><\/p>\n

Memoir:<\/p>\n

Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders<\/a><\/p>\n

Essay:<\/p>\n

Ours for the Making: Trans Lit, Trans Poetics<\/a><\/p>\n

Ted Talk:<\/p>\n

Ain’t I A Woman?<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Torah doesn’t tell us what being created in the image of God means, or explain how human beings are similar to the invisible, disembodied, time- and space-transcending Creator of the Universe. That, to me, is the point of reading God and the Torah from a transgender perspective: to better understand the kinship between humanity and … Continue reading Joy Ladin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/westernmassqtwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/westernmassqtwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/westernmassqtwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/westernmassqtwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/westernmassqtwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/westernmassqtwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/westernmassqtwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/westernmassqtwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/westernmassqtwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/westernmassqtwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}