The LGBTQ Study Group invites you to our first meeting of the new year to a conversation with poet Joy Ladin:

JOY LADIN, PHD

“Once Out of Nature:

Selected Essays on the Transformation of Gender”

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

8:30 – 10:00 PM (EST)

Description: Join us to celebrate the publication of Joy Ladin’s Once Out of Nature: Selected Essays on the Transformation of Gender. The collection, which includes essays that began as talks to our LGBTQ Study Group, is a distillation of fifteen years of thinking, writing and speaking about trans identities and issues. Ladin will read and discuss selections from the book, focusing on contributions inspired by WAWI events.

Joy Ladin, Ph.D., Joy Ladin has long worked at the tangled intersection of trans-gender identity and literature, publishing and transgender identity, publishing a memoir of gender transition, National Jewish Book Award finalist Through the Door of Life, a book-length work of trans theology, Lambda Literary and Triangle Award finalist, The Soul of the Stranger, and her brand-new essay collection, Once Out of Nature: Selected Essays on the Transformation of Gender (Once Out of Nature — Persea Books). She has also published eleven books of poetry, including Family (also new – Family — Persea Books), including Lambda Literary finalists Transmigration and Impersonation and National Jewish Book Award winner The Book of Anna. Her work has been recognized with a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholarship, an American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship, and a Hadassah Brandeis Institute Research Fellowship, among other honors. A nationally recognized speaker on trans identity, Ladin has been featured on a number of NPR programs, including an “On Being” with Krista Tippett interview that has been re-broadcast several times. Her writing is available at joyladin.wordpress.com.

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