Tagged: Joy Ladin

Poet, theologian and pioneer of Jewish queer thought, Joy Ladin has opened new paths in the encounter between faith and gender identity. In his book The Soul of the Stranger, reread the Torah from a transgender perspective, revealing a God who lives in alterity and welcomes those who feel "foreigner". His words give voice to those who are often excluded from religious languages, showing that the Bible can also be a house for everyone. A profound and courageous witness of inclusive spirituality.

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Read the Torah from a transgender perspective with Joy Ladin

Trascrizione della prima parte del webinar “IN/Verse” con Joy Ladin*, poetessa e saggista transgender ebrea statunitense, realizzato il 27 aprile 2025 nell’ambito del Progetto Cornerstone da La Tenda di Gionata e moderato da Letizia Tomassone e Daniela Di Carlo, pastore e teologhe della Chiesa valdese. Liberamente tradotto e trascritto dai volontari del Progetto Gionata. Cosa significa vivere la propria autenticità...

Traces of reflection

God beyond of the genre: reread the Torah from a transgender perspective

Text by Joy Ladin* taken from his book "The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a transgender perspective" (the soul of the foreigner. Reading God and the Torah from a transgender perspective), ed. Brandeis University Press (United States), 2018. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project, religious traditions based on Torah tend to conceive humanity in male terms ....

Traces of reflection

The escape of the prophet Jonah and every transgender person to escape their destiny

Text by Joy Ladin* taken from his book "The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a transgender perspective" (the soul of the foreigner. Reading God and the Torah from a transgender perspective), ed. Brandeis University Press (United States), 2018. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project I was more than forty years old when I finally knew the rabbis willing to accept me as ...

Beyond Gender

Navy with God from a transgender perspective

Text by Joy Ladin* taken from his book "The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a transgender perspective" (the soul of the foreigner. Reading God and the Torah from a transgender perspective), ed. Brandeis University Press (United States), 2018. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project often ask me how to reconcile my religious faith with the ...

Testimonials

Through the door of life. My Jewish journey through the genres

Text by Joy Ladin* extracted from his book Through The Door of Life: to Jewish Journey Beteween Genders (through the door of life: a Jewish journey between genres), University of Wisconsin Press (United States), 2012, pp.7- 9. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project “If I am not for myself, who will I be for me? If they are only for myself, what are they? ...