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.”

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.”

Transgender Studies

Book:

Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders. (U. of Wisconsin Press). Finalist, National Jewish Book Award; Forward Fives Award winner

Book in Development:

“We Pass for What We Are”: Transgender Identities and the Expansion of the Language of the Self

Selected Essays:

“`Split It Open and Count the Seeds’: Trans Identity, Trans Poetics, and Oliver Bendorf’s The Spectral Wilderness.” TSQ: Trans Studies Quarterly. (Fall 2015).

“Girl in a Bottle: An Autobiographical Excursion into the Poetics of Transsexuality.” In (In)Scribing Gender: International Female Writers and the Creative Process. Ed. Jen Westmoreland Bouchard. Diversion Press, 2015. 

“Disordering Gender: Breaking the Transgender Taboo.” Psychology Tomorrow. 18 (October 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.” Mount Holyoke College. April 1, 2015.

“The Genesis of Gender.” Tikkun. 30.3 (Summer 2015).

“Trans*formative Teaching: a Conversation between H. Adam Ackley, Joy Ladin, and Cameron Partridge.” Transformations: the Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy. 25.1 (2014): 86-99.

“I Am Not Not Me: Unmaking and Remaking the Language of the Self.” Lambda Literary. December 28, 2014.

“Once Out of Nature: Reflections on Body, Soul, Gender and God.” Tikkun. 28:4 (Fall 2013): 10-12, 56-59.

“Supposed Persons: Emily Dickinson and `I’.” The Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin. 25:1 (May/June 2013): 15-18, 24.

“Breaking the Gender Covenant.” Shma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas. May 2013. 4.

“Writing as a Woman.” HerKind.org Blog. July 2012.

“That Australian Smile.” Feminist Studies. 38.1 (Spring 2012): 176-83.

“Ours for the Making: Trans Lit, Trans Poetics.” Lambda Literary Review. 2.45 (December 9, 2011).

“The Voice.” Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation. Ed. Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman.  Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2010: 247-254.

Selected Presentations and Interviews:

“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.

“Gender and the Syntax of Being.” Krista Tippet’s “On Being.” June 20, 2013.

On Being Studios · Joy Ladin — Gender and the Syntax of Being: Identity and Transition

“Joy Ladin: Life as a transgender woman at an Orthodox Jewish University.” For “The Current” with Anna Maria Tremonti. CBC. April 28, 2014.

“Through the Door of Life.” For “Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders.” Wisconsin Public Radio. January 12, 2012.

Lectures:

“In the Image of God, God Created Them: Toward Trans Theology.” Resituating Religion panel. Trans*Studies: an International, Transdisciplinary Conference on Gender, Embodiment, and Sexuality. University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ. September 9, 2016.

“Transmigration: Becoming a Trans Poet.” Poetry Roundtable. Trans*Studies: an International, Transdisciplinary Conference on Gender, Embodiment, and Sexuality. University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ. September 9, 2016.

“Diving into the Wreck: Feminism and Trans Feminism.” 2016 Modern Language Association Convention panel on Trans Poetics and Feminism. Austin, TX. January 8, 2016.

“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.

“Hormones and Embodiment.” Seminar. Mount Holyoke College. April 1, 2015.

“Trans Poetry: Political Action or Social Action?” Seminar on “Transgender Politics and Critical Thought.” Dept of Sociology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Amherst, MA. October 31, 2014.

“Former Suicidal, Dissociated Transgender Child Tells All: What We Talk About When We Talk About Gender Identity Disorder.” Mount Sinai Faculty Psychotherapy Conference. Mt. Sinai Hospital. New York, NY. October 28, 2014.

“The Genesis of Gender.” University of San Francisco. San Francisco, CA. October 9, 2014.

“I am Not Not Me: Unmaking and Remaking the Language of the Self.” Plenary Panel: Frames for Trans Literature. Writing Trans Genres: Emergent Literatures and Criticism. University of Winnipeg. Winnipeg, Canada. May 22, 2014.

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