Selected Readings and Presentations

Open Mic / Featured Speaker Joy Ladin. International Women’s Writing Guild. 2024.

“Becoming Other, Losing A Mother, and Understanding One Another.” University of Connecticut. October 14, 2024.

“Jewish Poetry with Joy Ladin and Jessica Jacobs.” Museum of Jewish Heritage. June 16, 2024.

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“Ain’t I a Woman?” TEDx Talks. January 7, 2016.

“What makes a woman?” That was the title of Elinor Burkett’s NY Times editorial questioning whether male-to-female transsexuals like me should be considered women — and it’s the question I explore in this intimate talk.

“Joy Ladin: Finding a Home in Yourself.” For On Being with Krista Tippett. The On Being Project. June 20, 2013.

“We Bear Witness: Poetry and the Holocaust.” With William Heyen and Geoffrey Philp. Florida International University. February 2021.

“The Book of Anna: In Conversation with Joy Ladin.” The Jewish Museum of Maryland. March 14, 2021.

“Words in the Attic.” Poetry Off the Shelf Podcast. The Poetry Foundation. September 8, 2020.

“Shekhinah Speaks: Gender and Divinity with Joy Ladin.” Hadassah Brandeis Institute.

“Joy Ladin Reads ‘Forgetting.’” For The Poetry Magazine Podcast. Poetry Foundation. April 6, 2020.

“‘Letter to My Body.’ by Joy Ladin, A Poetry Film by Elyse Kelly.” The On Being Project. October 26, 2020.

“Letter to My Body” by Joy Ladin is part of our “Poetry Films” series, which features animated interpretations of beloved poems from our archive.

“Joy Ladin | The Shekhinah Speaks.” The Metanoia Project. June 18, 2020.

“`She Said, I Know What It’s Like to be Dead’”: Views from the Border Between Life and Death.” Community Hevra Kadisha of Boston. February 9, 2022.

“The Soul of the Stranger: a Conversation with Seth Marnin.” Temple Ner Tamid. Bloomfield, NJ. April 6, 2021.

“Beyond Fear.” In Heard Immunity: Poems and Pictures Now. Ed. Gregg Bordowitz. Museum of Modern Art and PS1. October 30, 2020.

“Zen and the Art of Making Presenting: Julie Marie Wade and Joy Ladin.” The Betsy Hotel. August 4, 2020.

An online arts series hosted by John Stuart, Associate Dean at FIU and Deborah Plutzik Briggs, VP of Arts at The Betsy Hotel.
Joy Ladin begins reading at minute 19.

The Akedah Project: Joy Ladin, a Transgender Perspective. The Akedah Project. September 24, 2020.

When I first wrote about the Akedah it was in a poem that began- “I cannot tell if I am the father or the son.” The perspective I brought to it – obviously, I was still hiding my trans identity – so this was submerged, and I was young, so I’m not sure how fully conscious I was of this .. but I was writing about gender as a form of binding. In that poem, that is what binds the father and son into this kind of violence and freezes both of them eternally into this kind of position.”
The Akedah Project – an online platform of specially curated content exploring the narrative of the Binding of Isaac – is brought to you by a unique partnership between 929 English, BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change, Oshman Family JCC, Jewish Live and Judaism Unbound.

“Joy Ladin reads and reflects a poem by Tomas Tranströmer.” On Being Project. April 29, 2020.

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“Joy Ladin: Poetry for Teshuva.”  B’nai Jeshurun. August 20, 2020.

“Fringes Episode 1: Joy Ladin.” Fringes Podcast. August 21, 2020.

“2018: Showcase Reading Series: Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Michael Lally, Joy Ladin, Roberto Harrison.” Poets House. July 26, 2018. Joy begins reading at minute 56.

“Joy Ladin, 2.23.18.” Westminster School, Simsbury, CT. February 23, 2018.