#joy Ladin

[moncuries]

faith, judaism and being trans as described by joy ladin, a trans woman and poet

#trans #joy ladin #judaism #we read this in class today and I cried a little #specficially this is in the image of god #and her article like jacob i wasn't the boy my parents wanted to bless

[sallysetoncore]

The Genesis of Gender by Joy Ladin / I Ought to Be My Adam by Lou Bold / “THE QUIET” by Troye Sivan / Trans Horror Punk Frankenstein's Creation by Riz Nasty / The Strong Breed by Wole Soyinka / The Fabulous Frankenstein’s Monster by sbsiceland / “Swimming Pool” by The Front Bottoms // ON TRANSGENDER FRANKENSTEIN’S MONSTER

#stevie's intertextuality #frankenstein #frankenstien's monster #trans #transgender #the genesis of gender #joy ladin #lou bold #troye sivan #riz nasty #wole soyinka #the strong breed #sbsiceland #the front bottoms #stevie posts #q #elsie tag #(they know why lol)

[thensson]

It Didn't Change Anything, but Love Was There

The Snail and the Rosebush, Hans Christian Andersen || Forgetting, Joy Ladin || Sue Zhao || As Long as There is Love, There Will be Grief, Heidi Priebe || We Were Young, Fortesa Latifi || Scenes from Dune Part Two (2024) ||

#dark academia #academia #web weaving #poems and quotes #chaotic academia #romantic academia #poetry #dune part two #dune part 2 #dune movie #paul atreides #chani kynes #paul x chani #hans christian andersen #joy ladin #sue zhao #heidi priebe #fortesa latifi

[junkjounral]

June 6, 2023

“There is no difference between trying to love and loving” —Joy Ladin

#joy Ladin #junk journal #junkjournal #journal #art journal #gluebook #quote #bujo #aesthetic #bullet journal #scrapbooking #bird aesthetic #nature aesthetic #ion normally say what these are abt in the tags but this one was abt my mom #v messy and not one of my favorite pieces but it was honest and I did what I could which I think sums up where she and I are too #the partial quote from joy ladin’s book had me sobbing when I read it #I was feeling it on so many levels. being trans and Jewish and how do those fit together. having family problems. going thru change that #strikes u to ur core and u would die without but also not wanting to do it. so uh anyway she’s incredible #and I recommend her to anyone for any reason just read her shit it’s so fucking good

[zahut]

“Although the version of gender that emerges by the end of the first three chapters of Genesis does not speak to people who don’t fit binary categories, the story of the genesis of gender does. Adam is human before he is gendered; his humanity does not depend on him fitting into a binary gender system, on being a man as opposed to a woman. The Torah presents gender not as a built-in aspect of humanity decreed by G-d, but as a human creation, borne out of Adam’s response to Eve. As new and startling as transgender identities can seem in this regard they are direct descendants of the biblical genesis of gender: like Adam’s woman/man binary, transgender identities are human inventions, attempts to understand and express who we are in relation to others, so that we will not feel alone [...] the biblical account of the genesis of gender lays the ground for accepting the dazzling variety not just of transgender people, but of humanity.”

— Joy Ladin, The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective

#joy ladin #quotes #text #words #judaism #jewish tag #transgender

[dancingthroughourlifes]

I think we all know this part of the poem

BUT I wanted to talk about another part:

The tone of this is very much a shared feeling of anger, yet drawing a line between the poets and the readers anger. Saying "This is you" and "This is me". It seems like she is saying "This anger and me are interchangeable. I am my anger. " and thus "Your anger and you are interchangeable. You are your anger. " But then you keep reading

And she keeps going! With kindness!

So not only is she reminding the reader to care for themselves still, regardless of all their anger, that seems to have consumed them to the point it feels like synonymous to their personhood, their soul; no she is also assuring you that that is not the case at all!

You are not your anger! You deserve to eat still! To not feel like an overflowing pot! You deserve to get better!

Forgetting/ Joy Ladin/ Full poem /Interview

#poetry #dark academia #joy ladin #Forgetting #Forgetting poem #Forgetting joy ladin #The interview starts with saying i always kinda wanted to be god when i grew up lol #I really like her voice reading it #anger #poems on anger #poetry on anger

[revmeg]

“Letter to Jonah” by Joy Ladin

It must be cozy there, in the belly of the whale. The whale knows you aren’t the end of his world, his enormous heart pumps unbroken in the dark. God reverberates quietly inside you, a psalm you sing as you dissolve in his gastric juices. Dissolving is safer for all concerned than growing into who you are. And aren’t you really closer to God, there in the belly of the whale, dissolving into gratitude and krill and a story sailors tell about a man who slept through a man-killing storm and when they woke him to pray said, “Throw me overboard”? 

#Joy Ladin #poetry #Impersonation #Bible #lit #Jonah

[therisingfog]

The footsteps of the Lord

In the garden. I know

The drill: I pull on my skin

And try to act human,

Knowing you’ve already noticed

The difference between the creature I am

And the creature you thought

You were breathing yourself into

On the sixth day, at evening.

-Joy Ladin

#poem #poetry #joy ladin

[poemshelter]

9th and 2nd by Joy Ladin

October 24, 2006

I’m alive you say to no one in particular.

You are no one in particular. That’s a good thing. The street is filled with souls

nested in good-looking bodies that aren’t looking

in your direction. Someone is singing, someone’s holding hands

with someone who is embarrassed by affection, men and women made of light

drink in light made of men and women.

They are alive you say, meaning no one in particular.

One of them is singing, one is selling flowers, one is so thin

you can almost see through her. One is looking in your direction.

I’m alive you say, a little embarrassed to be no one in particular, a soul

nested in a body of men and women.

Someone is singing, someone is drinking tea that is sweet and bitter.

It’s a good thing you say, drinking in the light

of men and women, men and women made of light, nested

in the sweet and bitter. A soul is singing in your direction, so alive

you can almost see her.

#joy ladin #poetry #autumn #cities #happiness

[localibrarian]

some joy ladin

#joy ladin #poetry

[jewishbookworld]

The Book of Anna by Joy Ladin

The Book of Anna by Joy Ladin

THE BOOK OF ANNA is written in the voice of Anna Asher, a fictional Czech-German Jew who spent her adolescence in a concentration camp and now lives in 1950s Prague answering phones for the secret police. This genre-defying book of prose diary entries and autobiographical poems offers intimate glimpses of Anna’s present–her writing process, relationships with neighbors, obsessive sexual behavior,…

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#EOAGH Books #Jewish Book Council #Joy Ladin

[magical-musings-of-morgan]

tbh nothing has helped me overcome my culturally christian mindset more than learning about antisemitism. Those roots run so, so deep in everything, ESPECIALLY Christianity. Learning more about Judaism as a faith and Jews as a people also has helped me unpack so much.

It’s calling it the Tanakh and not the Old Testemant. It’s learning that there are other ways to interpret these old stories than the mindset of “everything points towards Jesus.” It’s really stopping to question WHY we don’t see these interpretations as “valid” or more worth considering than the more prevalent Christian ones. It’s raising an eyebrow and calling into question people who say the “old testament god” was a bloodthirsty misogynistic tyrant (because yeah that’s dogwhistle-y to me)

Anyways any jewish ppl who come across my blog I am blowing you a kiss and handing you a cool sword to kill nazis with <3

#text #morgans magical musings #cultural christianity #unlearning antisemitism #the book the soul of the stranger by joy ladin changed my life fr fr #also yeah just reiterating but you are OMEGA sus #if you call the quote unquote OT god some megalomaniac #like #yall realize the OT isnt JUST for christians right #christians werent even the first ones to study and learn from the tanakh #and maybe the people who originally had these religious texts #have a more nuanced understanding of their god than you?? #just a thought <3

[makingqueerhistory]

Hi! Do you have any recommendations of books that explore the relationship between queerness and Judaism? Thanks so much!

Yes, absolutely; this subject also interests me so I am excited to share some books!

First, the book I always recommend:

Beyond the Pale Elana Dykewomon

Another favourite of mine:

The New Queer Conscience Adam Eli

I also recently got a fantastic list from a patron in our discord!

A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969 Noam Sienna

Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community Noach Dzmura, Tucker Lieberman

Uncommon Charm Emily Bergslien, Kat Weaver

Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible Gregg Drinkwater, Joshua Lesser, David Shneer, Judith Plaskow

The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective Joy Ladin

I hope this list helps!

#queer history #gay history #lgbt history #queer #lgbt #answered #lesbian history #transgender history #transgender #making queer history #queer books #lgbt books

[damianbugs]

A Letter To My Mother That She Will Never Read by Ocean Vuong / Batman Urban Legends #18 / Dementia by Jane Hewitt / We Are Robin #8 / Forgetting by Joy Ladin / We Are Robin #8 / Remember My Name by Mitski / Batman (2011) #50

#duke thomas #i didnt realise but he is crying in ever panel #): #web weaving

[torsamors]

I have been, and always shall be, yours. - kirk x spock

[id in alt text + quote sources under the cut]

[(1) Spock’s autobiography (2) Jane Austen (3) Mitski - Francis Forever (4) Mhairi McFarlane (5) Louise Glück (6) The Wedding Date (2004) (7) The National - Slow Show (8) John Grisham (9) Joy Ladin (10) Rachel Mennies (11) Emery Allen (12) Pedros Salinas translation Ruth Katz Crispin (13) Sleeping at Last - Venus (14) Kiersten White (15) @whendidmythoughtsgocrazy (16) Florence + the Machine -How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (17) Farscape]

#thank you kiera for the help w quotes. this farscape quote will live w me forever i think #star trek #spirk #<- hate their ship name #k/s #tos #st #y. yeah. #parallels #** #jim kirk #spock

[answermywearyquery]

pete + vegas // joy ladin - psalms

loan’s kinnporsche 2nd anniversary: favourite romantic relationship: vegaspete

#vegaspete #petevegas #kpanniversary2024 #vegas theerapanyakul #pete saengtham #kinnporsche #kinnporche the series #kp2anniversary #loan thoughts #kp #if you've seen me fake several skills while i try to make stuff for this event. no you didnt. i totally know everything about graphic desig