Joy Ladin

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. (Forthcoming 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.” Unpublished talk delivered at Mount Holyoke College.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 Interviews:

Interview about TEDxBeaconStreet talk “Ain’t I a Woman?” November 14, 2015.

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

CBC interview with Anna Maria Tremonti for “The Current.”  April 28, 2014.

“Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders” Wisconsin Public Radio. January 12, 2012.

Recent Presentations:

“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.

“Ain’t I a Woman?” TEDxBeaconStreet. November 15, 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.

“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.

“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.