Recent Presentations
2021
“Wonders in the Place of Darkness: A Conversation on Isolation with Joy Ladin and Rabbi Steve Greenberg.” Eshel National Retreat. Via Zoom. January 17, 2021.
“The Soul of a Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective.” Valley Beit Midrash. Phoenix, AZ. January 14, 2021.
Featured reader. “We Bear Witness: Poetry and the Holocaust.” With William Heyen and Geoffrey Philp. Florida International University. January 27, 2021.
“Poetry at CBST with Joy Ladin & Ariel Zitny.” Congregation Bet Simchat Torah. February 1, 2021.
“How to Read Torah from a Transgender Perspective.” Torah L’Shma Program. Central Conference of American Rabbis. February 4, 2021.
“Beyond the Tower of Babel: A New Approach to Inclusive Policy.” Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California. February 11, 2021.
“Growing Up at the Corner of Trans & Jewish.” Old Dominion University. February 16, 2021.
Panelist. “Being Trans and a Person of Faith.” The Stonewall Center. University of Massachusetss, Amherst. Via Zoom. March 11, 2021.
“We Pass for What We Are: Otherness and Humanness.” The William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society 2020-21 Colloquia, “Otherness and Listening Beyond the Self: Recognizing the Lived Experiences of Marginalization and Exclusion.” Via Zoom. New York, NY. March 12, 2021.
“The Book of Anna: In Conversation with Joy Ladin.” The Jewish Museum of Maryland. March 14, 2021.
Trans Day of Visibility Speaker. Abraham Joshua Heschel High School. New York, NY. March 17, 2021.
“My Jewish Journey Between Genders, My Transgender Journey Among Jews.” Orange County Jewish Community Scholar Program. Orange County, CA. March 23, 2021.
Role Model presentation. Live Out Loud Program. The Mott Street School. New York, NY. March 24, 2021.
“Binaries and Beyond: What the Laws of Passover Teach Us about Trans and Nonbinary Lives.” Congregation Dorshei Tzedek. West Newton, MA. March 27, 2021.
Featured Reader (with Diana Whitney and MJ Fievre). Sundog Poetry Center. Jeffersonville, VT. Via Zoom. March 28, 2021.
“The Soul of the Stranger: a Conversation with Seth Marnin.” Temple Ner Tamid. Bloomfield, NJ. Via Zoom. April 5, 2021.
“The Meaning of Freedom: A Workshop on Identity and Liberation.” SOJOURN. Atlanta, GA. April 6, 2021.
“Trans Jewish Writing.” New Voices Resilient Writers Fellowship. April 8, 2021.
Book launch, reading and interview for The Book of Anna, 2nd edition. Via Zoom. April 11, 2021.
2020
“Trans Poetics: Theory and Practice.” Trans and Non-Binary Poetry seminar. Hunter College. December 7, 2020.
“Trans Hermeneutics: A Common-Denominator Approach.” SVARA Teaching Kollel Queer Shiur. November 29, 2020.
“Creative Writing as a Spiritual Practice.” Shalosh Regalim program. Academy for Jewish Religion. Via Zoom. October 16, 2020.
“Trans Theology.” Guest speaker, “Judaism and Gender” seminar. Georgetown University. Via Zoom. October 13, 2020.
“Welcoming the Souls of Strangers: A Conversation with Joy Ladin.” Webinar with Rabbi Gail Labovitz. American Jewish University. October 6, 2020.
“Tradition as a Tool for Change.” Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program. Brandeis University. Waltham, MA. Via Zoom. October 1, 2020.
“Extreme Teshuvah: Gender Transition as Spiritual Renovation.” Congregation Beth Sholom. Teaneck, NJ. By Zoom. September 12, 2020.
“Building Inclusive Communities.” Beth Israel Congregation. Jackson, MS. Via Zoom. August 23, 2020.
“Shekhinah Speaks: Gender and Divinity.” Hadassah Brandeis Institute. Via Zoom. July 23, 2020. https://ensemble.brandeis.edu/hapi/v1/contents/permalinks/Fj
“Gender and Divinity.” Seminar for Hadassah Brandeis Institute Interns. Via Zoom. July 23, 2020.
“The Spiritual Discipline of Knowing the Soul of the Stranger.” The Gift of Storytelling (with Robert Harvey and Kyndra Frazier). KYND. June 15, 2020.
“Transgender Religious Discourse: an Online Interview with Rabbi Steve Greenberg.” Eshel. June 10, 2020.
“Becoming at the Mikveh.” Webinar. Rising Tide Open Waters Mikveh Network. April 23, 2020.
“Trans Theology: Writing The Soul of the Stranger.” Body and Gender in Religious Traditions seminar. Mount Holyoke College. April 15, 2020.
“Writing to God: a Workshop for Rabbinic Students.” Netivot Peliot: Exploring Spiritual Modes in a Jewish
Context. Academy for Jewish Religion. Yonkers, NY. February 11, 2020.
“Trans Experience in the Torah: Jacob, Esau, and Gender.” Keynote for “A Modern Look at
Traditional Jewish Sources: How Judaism Speaks to Our Contemporary Experiences” Symposium.
Sutton Place Synagogue. New York, NY. January 26, 2020.
“Trans Hermeneutics: a Workshop.” Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life, Yale. January 25, 2020.
“Transgender and Religious: a Conversation with Reverend Beth Goudy.” Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center. Allentown, PA. January 6, 2020.
2019
“Trans Identity and Gender Transition.” Gender and Literature Seminar. Yeshiva College. April 15, 2019.
“Transparent Trans Parent.” Genderations Lunch. Western Kentucky University. April 11, 2019.
“`I am She as You are She’: The Politics of Gender Identity.” Montclair State University. Montclair, NJ.
March 26, 2019.
“A Conversation with Joy Ladin: The Soul of the Stranger and Shekhinah Speaks.” Congregation Beit
Ahavah. Northampton, MA. April 21, 2019.
“The Genesis of Gender: Reading Torah from a Transgender Perspective.” Western Kentucky University.
April 11, 2019.
“Out of the Depths: Trans Identity, God, and Torah.” 25th World Congress of LGBT Jews. Sydney, Australia. March 22, 2019.
“Trans Theology: a Jewish Perspective.” Transfaith Online. March 5, 2019.
“Trans in the Eyes of God.” Episode 3. Podcast. InterfaithRadio.org. I
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“The Soul of the Stranger: Trans Identities and Religious Tradition.” Duke University. Durham, NC.
February 28, 2019.
“Trans Jews are Here: A Conversation with Joy Ladin.” Congregation Bet Simcha Torah. New York, NY:
February 25, 2019.
“Reading Between the Binaries: a Trans Approach to the Torah.” Hebrew College. Newton, MA.
February 7, 2019.
“The Soul of the Stranger.” Brandeis University. Waltham, MA. February 7, 2019.
“Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective.” Brandeis University. Waltham, MA.
February 7, 2019.
“A Stranger in the Camp: Transforming Gender in Jewish Communities.” Atlanta Rabbinical Association.
Atlanta, GA. January 15, 2019.
“Trans in the Jewish Community.” Temple Beth Israel. Macon, Georgia. January 14, 2019.
2018
“DIY: Exodus, the Seder, and the Making of Jewish Identities.” New Jewish Culture Fellowship seminar.
Brooklyn, NY. December 2, 2018.
“Knowing the Soul of the Stranger: Trans Identity, Religious Community, and Making a Place for God.”
Jewish Theological Seminary. November 12, 2018.
“Knowing the Soul of the Stranger: Trans Identity, Religious Community, and Making a Place for God.”
University of Connecticut. Stamford, CT. November 6, 2018.
“Jewish and Trans Identities.” Rutgers Hillel. New Brunswick, NJ. Rutgers University. October 29, 2018.
“Trans Theology: Theory and Practice.” Trans Seminarians Breakfast. Pacific School of Religion. October 5, 2018.
“Knowing the Soul of the Stranger: Trans Identity, Religious Community, and Making a Place for God.”
2018 Georgia Harkness Lecture. Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion. Pacific School
of Religion. Berkeley, CA. October 4, 2018.
“God’s Identity.” The Open Sukkah Project. Jamaica Plains, MA. September 26, 2018.
“Saying `We.’” New Hampshire Poetry Festival. New England College. Henniker, NH. September 16, 2018.
“TransTalk.” The Aqua Foundation. The Betsy-South Beach. South Beach, FL. June 26, 2018.
“`Reading Queer Roundtable.” Reading Queer. The Betsy-South Beach. South Beach, FL. June 25, 2018.
Scholar-in-Residence. Jewish Community of the Hamptons. East Hampton, NY. June 22-23, 2018.
“Out of the Depths: Reading the Torah from a Transgender Perspective.” June 22, 2018.
“How the Torah Speaks to Transgender Lives.” June 23, 2018.
“The Soul of the Stranger: Trans Experience and Making a Place for God.” Congregation Eitz Chaim.
Cambridge, MA: June 11, 2018.
“The Soul of the Stranger: God, Trans People and Other Hyper-Minorities.” Williams College. Williamstown, MA. April 3, 2018.
“The Soul of the Stranger: God, Trans People and Other Hyper-Minorities.” Klehr Center for Jewish Life.
Franklin & Marshall College. Lancaster, PA. March 27, 2018.
“Trans Theology: a New Approach.” Body and Gender in Religious Traditions seminar.
Mount Holyoke College. March 27, 2018.
“Out of the Depths: Reading the Torah from a Transgender Perspective.” Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff
Program and Center for Jewish Studies. University of Maryland. College Park, MD. February 27, 2018.
“How Do I Know Who I Am?” Jewish Federation of Durham-Chapel Hill. Durham, NC. January 7, 2018.
2017
“Welcoming Trans Jews at the Mikveh.” MaCoM. Atlanta, GA. August 14, 2017.
“‘How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?’: Transgender in Binary Religious Communities.” Congregation Beth Haverim. Atlanta, GA. August 15, 2017.
“What We Talk About When We Talk About Gender Dysphoria.” Welcoming Communities Project. Jewish Family and Career Services. Atlanta, GA. August 16, 2017.
“Shipwrecked with God.” Emmett O’Neal Library. Welcoming Communities Task Force. Birmingham, AL. August 16, 2017.
“Helping Trans People Navigate a Binary Gender World.” Welcoming Communities Project. Jewish Family and Career Services. Atlanta, GA. August 17, 2017.
“Identity as Story: Jewish American and Trans Identity.” Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. Atlanta, GA. August 17, 2017.
2016
Oct 19 Lehigh University
Oct 16 Featured reader, Brattleboro Poetry Festival
Oct 13 Featured reader, Riverwood Poetry Series, West Hartford, CT
Sept 9, “In the Image of God, God Created Them: Toward Trans Theology.” Trans*Studies Conference, Tucson, AZ
Sept 9, “Transmigration: Becoming a Trans Poet.” Poetry Roundtable, Trans*Studies Conference, Tucson, AZ
June 25 Pride Shabbat Dvar Torah, Bnai Jeshurun, NYC
June 16 Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
May 31 Paideia: The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden
May 13-14 Bnai Keshet, Montclair, NJ
May 5 Hadassah Brandeis Institute Conversations, Chicago
Apr 30 “Master/Mistress/Mystery: The Poetry of Gender Non-Conformity” panel of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Salem, MA.
Apr 22 Emily Dickinson Homestead, Amherst, MA
Apr 20 Queens College Hillel, New York
Apr 6 New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Gender Dysphoria”
Apr 6 Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University,
“Understanding Gender Identities and Gender Transition”
Mar 13 Bowery Poetry Club, Reading with Fiona Wilson, New York City
Mar 2 Jewish Theological Society Lunch and Learn, New York City
Mar 2 Columbia University Hillel, New York City
Feb 11 In conversation with Rabbi David Ingber, Romemu, New York City
Feb 7 Jewish Women’s Archive poetry reading with Lesléa Newman
Jan 21 “Trans Theology.” Yeshivat Maharat, New York City
Jan 8 “Diving into the Wreck: Feminism and Trans Feminism.” 2016 Modern Language Association Convention panel on Trans Poetics and Feminism
Jan 7 “Through the Door of Life: Trans and Jewish.” Jewish Community of Austin. Austin, TX.
2015
Dec 11 White Plains, MA, Congregation Kol Ami, 8pm
Dec 6 Queens, NY, Israel Center for Conservative Judaism
Dec 3 Shelburne Falls, MA, Collected Poets Series, Poetry Reading, 7pm
Nov 20-1 Lexington, MA, Temple Emunah Keruv Scholar in Residence “God, Gender, and Me” November 20 “`How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?’: Transgender in a Binary Jewish World” November 21
Nov 15 “Representing Transgender Experience in Poetry.” Transgender Poetry Seminar. Hunter College. NY, NY
Nov 14 “Ain’t I a Woman?” TEDX BeaconStreet, Boston, MA
Nov 9 National Council of Jewish Women – New York City
Nov 6 “Trans + Jewish = ?” Bowdoin College, Maine, 12:30pm
Nov 5 “`I am What I Will Be’: Meeting God at the Burning Bush of Becoming.” Colby College, Maine,
Nov 2 “Queer Spiritual Activism.” Queering Faith series, New York University, 7pm
Oct 27 Keshet-sponsored poetry reading with Lesléa Newman, New York City
“`I am What I Will Be’: Meeting God at the Burning Bush of Becoming.” U. of Connecticut, Stamford, October 20, 2015
Spiritual Autobiography Writing Workshop. U. of Connecticut, Stamford, October 20, 2015
“We Pass for What We Are: Creating Language to Express Transgender Identities.” American Studies Colloquium. Reed College. Portland, OR. October 1, 2015.
“Trans-Aware Teaching.” Center for Teaching and Learning. Reed College. Portland, OR. October 1, 30, 2015.
“Growing Up Trans.” David R. Eddings Lecture. Reed College. Portland, OR. September 30, 2015.
“Transgender and Orthodox.” Bronfman Center for Jewish Jewish Student Life. New York University. New York, NY. September 8, 2015.
“Jewish and Transgender Identity.” Hadassah Brandeis Institute Internship Program. Brandeis University.
Waltham, MA. July 8, 2015.
“Meet Me at the Intersection of Jewish and Transgender Identity.” Collegiate Leadership Internship Program.
Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life. New York University. New York, NY. June 29, 2015.
“Invisible Family.” “Lived Lives: Personal Narratives in Non-Traditional Families” panel. The Changing
Face of the American Family: a Daylong Colloquium. Jewish Theological Seminary. New York, NY.
June 1, 2015.
“How We Become Real: The Making of Jewish and Transsexual Identities.” Grammars of Difference
and Coherence: Jewish Studies Through the Lens of Gender Studies. U. of Wisconsin (Milwaukee).
May 3, 2015.
“Second Genesis: The Transformation of Gender.” Keynote. Asanbe Diversity Symposium. Austin Peay
State University. Clarksville, TN. April 16, 2015.
“Trans Identities in Social and Institutional Spaces.” Panelist. Asanbe Diversity Symposium. Austin Peay
State University. Clarksville, TN. April 16, 2015.
“What Being Trans has Taught Me About Being Jewish, and What Being Jewish has Taught Me about
Being Trans.” Jewish Feminism Week. Barnard College of Columbia University. April 13, 2015.
“I am she as you are she as you are me and we are all together’: The Politics of Gender Identity at
Women’s Colleges.” Invited talk. Mount Holyoke College. April 1, 2015.
“Hormones and Embodiment.” Seminar. Mount Holyoke College. April 1, 2015.
“Collisions and Intersections of Identities.” Matters of Taste 2015. Jewish Community Day School.
Newton, MA. March 29, 2015.
Scholar-in-Residence. Congregation Kehillat Israel. Brookline, MA. March 27-28, 2015.
Talks: “Malachi’s Prophecy”; “Passover, Festival of Binaries”; “What Being Jewish Taught Me
about Being Transgender.”
“Trans Judaism.” Hunter Hillel. Hunter College. New York, NY. March 24, 2015.
“Emily Dickinson and Narrative.” With co-presenter Susan Snively. The Emily Dickinson Museum. Amherst, MA. March 20, 2015.
“TRANScribing: Gender Identity, Creativity, and Self Expression.” Panel reading and discussion. Mark
Twain House. Hartford, CT. March 18, 2015.
“Trans and Jewish Identities: a Conversation with Jeffrey Shoulson.” University of Connecticut.
Storrs, CT. March 12, 2015.
“Through the Door of Life: a conversation with Sylvia Barack Fishman.” Hadassah Brandeis Institute
Virtual Conversations series. Webcast. March 3, 2015.
“`For You Know the Soul of a Stranger’: Being an LGBTQ Jew in a Jewish Community.” Keynote.
Nehirim Student Leadership Conference. Boston University. Boston, MA. February 15, 2015.
“Standing Again at Sinai, Again: Feminism and Transgender Jews.” Meet Me at Sinai Day of Learning.
Bnai Jeshurun. New York, NY. February 8, 2015.
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