JOY LADIN

WORKING AT THE TANGLED INTERSECTION OF LITERATURE AND TRANS IDENTITY

Persea Books Announces…

Two new books by Joy Ladin

Family

“It begins with “haiku suites,” an invented form through which her mother’s dementia and the poet’s growing disability are glimpsed by the light of a blossoming world. The lyric narratives that follow portray a widening family circle that also includes estranged children, God, targeted trans women, and Trump-era America. The book concludes with “Autobiography of My Whiteness,” a reckoning with Ladin’s belated awareness of her place in America’s racial hierarchy. Written with an open heart and a formal grace, Family is the latest important work of poetry from a Lambda Literary Award finalist and National Jewish Book Award winner.”

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Once Out of Nature: Selected Essays on the Transformation of Gender

“This compassionate, constructive volume collects eleven essays written between 2008, on the cusp of what Time called America’s “transgender tipping point,” and 2021, as anti-trans laws began metastasizing around America. Drawing on her experiences as a trans parent, spouse, teacher, and author, she writes honestly and insightfully about gender, exploring its intersections with feminisms, psychotherapy, divinity, ontology, and even the poems of Emily Dickinson. Written for any curious reader, these essays teach us about who we are, who we can be, and what it means to be human.”

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Links to Trans-Related Sites

National Center for Transgender Equality––The National Center for Transgender Equality advocates to change policies and society to increase understanding and acceptance of transgender people. In the nation’s capital and throughout the country, NCTE works to replace disrespect, discrimination, and violence with empathy, opportunity, and justice.

Nursing Home Abuse Center (NHAC)—NHAC offers support for at-risk LGBTQ elders

2022 U.S. Trans Survey

Vetch—Vetch is the first magazine of its kind, a journal of poetry solely by trans writers. We aim to publish work that is as excited about being poetry as it is engaged with the social conditions that allow for its production. Say it has an aesthetic and doubles down hard, wouldn’t that be fun.

Theresa’s Place

Gender 2.0—Gender 2.0 is an ongoing experiment in both gender and writing, publishing work about gender that speaks to issues and forms that are not represented in other places.

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