Crossing Enemy Lines: Having Difficult Conversations When It's Hard to Speak at All
Crossing Enemy Lines: Having Difficult Conversations When It's Hard to Speak at All
Joy Ladin has long worked and had difficult conversations at the tangled intersection of literature, Judaism, and transgender identity. Her memoir of gender transition, Through the Door of Life was a National Jewish Book Award finalist, and The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective, the first book-length work of Jewish trans theology, was a Lambda Literary and Triangle Award finalist. Her ten books of poetry include Shekhinah Speaks and The Book of Anna, the latter a 2021 National Jewish Book Award winner. Two new books, Once Out of Nature, essays on how gender is changing, and her eleventh collection of poems, Family, are forthcoming from Persea in fall 2024. Episodes of her online conversation series, “Containing Multitudes,” are available at judaismunbound.com/containing-multitudes; her writing is available at joyladin.com.
This event is co-sponsored by the Frederick Douglass Center for Leadership Through the Humanities, as part of the Religious Studies initiative, "Beyond Pluralism", which embraces difficult dialogue across religious difference.